Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes Indian encampment, Bar Harbor, 1881Abbe Museum All the cooking at the Indian encampment is done…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

"… early outdoor photographs, as reflected in street scenes in South Paris and Athens. A South Paris tintype of about 1860 shows eleven members of the…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"… and an ambrotype of Portland streets scenes of the 1840s and 50s rank among the earliest photographs of the city."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"Everything in this scene was destroyed twenty years later in the Great Fire of 1866. Bank of Cumberland Building, Portland, ca."

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"… reached Bangor, physicians were dispatched to the scene. The next day, spectators and photographers flocked to the site of the wreck: 10,000 people…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"E.M. Fuller came to the scene when he heard the bang of the wood. He was being rushed home by horse and carriage but sadly died before they reached…"

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

"… 125 actors and crew on the island and they shot scenes off Ocean Drive, on Scatterlee Beach, and on the rocks and in the water at various locations…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"1910Jesup Memorial Library The hotel scene did start to fade. Rich summer visitors wanted more than just rooms. They wanted their own cottages."

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2

"… 1955Guilford Historical Society This is a Winter scene of Bank Square and the Elm Street business district in the 1950s."

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… in evening gowns and their escorts provided a scene of beauty to the audience seated in the balcony."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"1862Maine Historical Society Setting the Scene On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina’s harbor."

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