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Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Knights Templar member, Bangor, 1864

"… "The Knight Templars were the most magnificent body I ever saw," John Martin of Bangor wrote in his account of their appearance at the consecration…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's cart, Hampden, ca. 1833

"… lip up and all the acoutrements for both a tight body and a sloven hay racks were knot known then but came in use soon after." View additional…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Elmer Ellsworth Martin, Bangor, 1865

"… Elmer, his fourth child and second son, "his body is large his legs and arms are large his feet and hands are very small. he has no fear."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Gorham L. Boynton, Bangor, ca. 1867

"… he is a man who always bows his head to every body he knows whether he is democrat or republican and why or how he is so tangled up in the…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Marcellus Emery, Bangor, ca. 1864

"… in his newspaper in 1861, "52 thousand dead bodies will be traveled over before a democrat can be compeled to go and defend the Capital at…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Joseph Mitchell and Mutual Store wagon, Bangor, 1865

"… to the baptist meeting the poorest clod of any body in the house had much to do with this store." He further explained the workings of the group…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …next came the artists and rusticators.

"… that the “cool waters of Eden” might invigorate body and soul, vacationers, referred to as rusticators, soon followed the artists. Frederic E."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - P.H. Tilson Death Notice

"… a cannon ball that severed his legs from his body. Thomaston Historical Society "Battle of Bull Run or Manassas." Oracle ThinkQuest Library."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"… foes, streaming in a horizontal line from their bodies, where their wearers were going their best to get a way canon, cattle and a great deal of…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 1 of 2

"… head with a metal pipe and then incinerating her body. The furnace was located in the basement of Loring, Short & Harmon stationary store, at 474…"

Early Maine Photography - Post-Mortem & Mourning

"… the subject’s head resting on a pillow, with her body completely covered by a sheet. The contrast of the white linen and the black background…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"A more invincible body of men could not be readily found. Several of the companies were subjected to the daguerreotype – with what success we have…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… South Portland were a destination for many able-bodied workers, who helped with the construction of Liberty Ships."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"… settlement, over the age of 21, who "are able of body, but have no visible means of support, who live idly and exercise no ordinary or daily lawful…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… Dutch cinematographer, slipped and fell from a cliff to his death at Schooner Head. His body was washed out to sea. Sources and Works Cited..."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"Manpower became a premium, as able bodied men were either drafted or enlisted in the armed forces. Many women were enlisted to do work in all…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… safety, being a role model to the student body, collecting payments for destruction of property, and teaching the wrongs of slavery."

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

"… three villages were established thanks to three bodies of water that run through New Portland. Lemon Stream is found in the West, the Carrabassett…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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