Maine Memory Network

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

"The top of the bed would move toward the back, allowed the bed of the digger to sift the dirt from the row, leaving the potatoes (and rocks) to fall…"

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 1 of 3

"… Brothers Meats French & Elliott Company Guilford Bed and Breakfast Bangor and Aroostook Railroad DAVIS BROTHERS FURNITURE Text by: Morgan King…"

St. Joseph Healthcare

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Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"Guilford Bed and Breakfast, ca. 1918Guilford Historical Society The Guilford Bed and Breakfast is located on the corner of Elm Street and Prospect…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 4 of 13

"… provides a good view of the lags on the digger bed. Tractors were soon pulling two-row diggers so that by the late 1940s there were few one-row…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 4 of 4

"… the boys, read them stories, and then put them to bed, all for fifty cents. She told me one time the husband felt bad because she had a hard time."

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"1918Guilford Historical Society This is an early 1900s photo of the Guilford Bed & Breakfast. This building was built in the 1890s by David Campbell…"

Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 1 of 2

"… closed in the winter of 1942-43, it contained 60 beds, but old hands remembered up to 98 patients treated inside at one time."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 2 of 2

"He loved to stay in that house because the bed had so many warm blankets on it. To do the inspections, they would put the milk in pails and weigh it."

Mt. Desert Island Hospital

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Mercy Hospital - Portland Hospitals Before Mercy

"… with diseases requiring surgery, and had 50 beds by 1918. None of these facilities, however, proved sufficient to cope with the great Influenza…"

Lincoln, Maine - Workman's Hospital

"It only had two beds, so people that needed surgery had to get it done on the kitchen table at their own home. In 1934, the hospital was moved to Dr."

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s

"… entertainment, followed by the comfort of a real bed. At first, they stayed with islanders pleased to welcome paying guests into their homes."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Day 2

"… they had many mattresses all over the floor as beds. Some older people had to be escorted out of their homes to either go to a shelter or go to a…"

Historic Hallowell - Energy

"For example, people might have had to go to bed on time with the sun. After more and more people had lights, they just probably stayed up later."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: The Funeral

"… infection that took his life after a few days of bed-ridden agony. Local legends about his death abound, including the rumor that he was stabbed by…"

Tate House Museum

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 1 of 3

"… war purposes, from uniform fabric and hospital bedding, to parachutes and life rafts. Wool and the new synthetic, nylon, were reserved for the war…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"The hospital is currently a 25-bed facility, with 24-hour emergency services and outpatient specialty clinics."

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… 1 cask of raisins 1 cask of oil 1 bundle of bed springs 54 1/2 of shingles 15in 73 feet of boards 17 barrels of pot ashes 1 pair of wheels lamb…"

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"Even today, 185 years later, the first dam bed logs can be spotted when the water is low and the sun overhead, looking down into the river from the…"

Old York Historical Society

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3

"… became the Hotel Strong and then served as a 16 bed hospital run by Dr. Charles Bell and owned by the Forster Manufacturing Company."