Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Bangor and Aroostook Train Station, Presque Isle, ca. 1908

"Walls floors and ceiling of office are wooden. Stove in middle of room has coal scuttle next to it. Large desk on right is high, requiring clerk to…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 3 of 13

"… a break to the potato pickers and other field workers. Worn lags would have to be replaced with new ones."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 2 of 13

"… from the rows by hand, although there were some workers with hand diggers who could keep up with the early mechanical diggers."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Salmon industry

"Fish factory worker, Marion Stinson, Swan's Island, ca. 1990Swan's Island Historical Society The business employed seven or eight islanders full…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"… shipbuilding yards along the Kennebec and lots of workers building these ships. They would get giant logs to put in their ships and huge quantities…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"Note how the workers appear, casually working and walking atop the I-beam. Higher tides than normal come during new moons, as occurred on a cold…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"In 1902 the company had 150 workers working with a daily output of fifty thousand shingles and fifteen thousand different types of lumber a day."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"There she photographed two workers in the Brining Room who have been identified as Leeman Wilcox and Richard Munson."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4

"… Sheds, the artifacts left there, and memories of workers help in understanding the work. Natalie Havens, who used to work at McCurdy’s, made an…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The workers used splitting forks and pick poles to line up the blocks that were lifted by the steam hoist."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The workers used splitting forks and pick poles to line up the blocks that were lifted by the steam hoist."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"Workers from Europe, especially Poland, Lithuania, Italy, Scotland, Ireland, England, came to build the dams, canals, brick structures, and other…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"… organization was to support English immigrant worker integration into the Western Maine community."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"… the assassination of President Kennedy; the civil rights movement; the equal rights movement for women; Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon; and the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"He was a very hard worker, demanding of himself and others, yet was concerned for the welfare of others, such as in adequate housing and education."

Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976

"… rising water caught many shoppers and downtown workers by surprise. Photo courtesy of the Bangor Daily News X 1976 February 2, 1976 was a warm…"

Lincoln, Maine - Jonathan Clay Jr.

"… hurt or killed, and when you are a construction worker, you have to be careful and also try not to get hurt or killed because of the big machines…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… filled cans waiting on trays on one side of each worker. Solder would still have to be used to seal the cans."

Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals

"Many of the people in our town would be dead without the hospitals, which means there would be fewer jobs and workers."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"Shipyard workers, like sailors of the time, were fueled by a daily ration of grog, served at eleven o’clock."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"The closing of the mills would cost 561 workers their jobs and impact nearly half of the town’s tax income. Building of tissue mill, Lincoln, ca."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"Warren Clark was a consistent and persistent hard worker and the New Portland Water District still serves part of the North Village."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… for getting them [potatoes] to market.” While workers completed the road that linked Presque Isle to Houlton and then to the southern parts of the…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"City workers took a 12.5 percent pay cut, and Bangor actively sought participation in every federal program to spur employment."