Maine Memory Network

Norridgewock Historical Society

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Norcross Heritage Trust

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Wood pile, 130 Center St., Bangor, ca. 1864

"… he wrote, "In drawing the house & L had I been artist enough to show a Jog I might & wished to represent this wood pile but in giving the L on a…"

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 2 of 2

"… Deering sisters are fashionably dressed and artistically posed around their mother, Anna Margaret Holwell Deering. The daughter of Major John Z."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1900-1910 - Page 1 of 3

"… familiar from the "Gibson Girl" images created by artist Charles Dana Gibson (who worked and spent time in Maine), and illustrator Joseph…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"… if its natural resources, but the discovery by artists in the 19th century brought word and vision of its powerful natural beauty to a greater…"

NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters Historic Site

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Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"His father was an engineer, and his mother was an artist. Barrows graduated from Philips Exeter in 1929 and from Harvard in 1934."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"… events and parades to exemplify the cultural and artistic history and diversity of the area and eventually he took his act far beyond Mount Desert…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers

"… and visitors who were inclined toward nature and artistic or intellectual pursuits. Overall, their homes and hotels were less extravagant than…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 2 of 3

"My parents are now nail artists in Presque Isle. In Vietnam, they did other, more strange things that we don’t do here."

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 2 of 3

"… to early-nineteenth century portraits by artists such as Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Gainsborough and Henry Raeburn."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Of The Arts Era

"Many important artists performed on the stage of the Building of the Arts: for example, opera singer Emma Eames and her husband Emilio de Gogorza…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"They made beautiful baskets and did beautiful bead work.” ...next came the artists and rusticators."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - People

"… the world. Inventors, Designers, Musicians, and Artists Leonard Atwood 1852-1902: "Father of the Skyscraper;" inventor of the elevator (sold his…"

Belfast Historical Society

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Jonathan Fisher Memorial

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Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ

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Surry by the Bay - Surry Today

"A smattering of writers, artists, and musicians seek their muses in this idyllic setting. A few people strive to subsist off the land by growing…"

Westbrook Historical Society

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Early Maine Photography - Portland Photographers

"Hanscom, who signed himself as a "traveling artist" on a circa 1860 ambrotype of Adam Winslow and his grandson Adam."

Kennebunkport Historical Society

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Early Maine Photography - Occupational

"In contrast is the elegant appearance of Portland artists John Greenleaf Cloudman and Charles Frederick Kimball."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"… members had their portraits painted by Famed artist John Singleton Copley, who perhaps uncoincidentally was allegedly indebted to Gardiner for a…"