Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - Mabelle Martin's casket, Bangor, 1899

"… scene of Mabelle's coffin in the parlor of the family home and included it in the Scrap and Sketch Book he wrote starting in 1888 in which he…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin store interior, Bangor, 1862

"… and illustrating a detailed journal about his family, life, and experiences. This illustration appears on page 565 and is followed by explanations…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Lamps and stove, John Martin store, Bangor, 1864

"… and several scrapbooks recounting his life, family, and various experiences. This is one of several illustrations of the store."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin house floor plan, Bangor, 1864

"… so his children would have a record about their family. Martin and his wife, Clara Cary, bought a house at 130 Center Street in Bangor in 1854."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 74-138

"… Approximately 1833-1840 Martin described his family living in Doctor Allen Rogers House in Hampden's lower corner, moving the Rogers barn, his…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 362-451

"… in, especially the Soule house, which became his family home; and his brother Alonzo's visit from California."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Design for rustic fence, gate, Bangor, 1867

"… gardening and landscaping, dancing, his family, politics, education, and numerous other topics."

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

"… own plow and had his own garden on the land his family rented in Hampden. Martin, who became an accountant, shopkeeper, and dance enthusiast…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Rustic furniture, Bangor, 1865

"… illustrating a journal in which he recalled his family, his business and pleasurable activities, and other events."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Fish weir, Ball Hill Cove, Hampden, ca. 1832

"… child, his stepfather, Solomon Raynes, moved the family to a farm on Ball Hill Cove in Hampden. Martin, in a journal he wrote beginning in 1864…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Lunt House, Cumberland at Center streets, Bangor, ca. 1852

"She sold the family home and bought this house, but put it in her son Luther's name. View additional information about this item on the Maine…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Dr. Charles Snell, Bangor, ca. 1867

"Snell, he wrote, was his family's physician, delivered all six of the Martin children, and treated Clara Martin through several serious illnesses."

John Martin: Expert Observer - First balloon ascension, Bangor, 1857

"… and gardening, education, business, inventions, family life, neighborhoods, and almost all other aspects of 19th century in the Bangor area."

John Martin: Expert Observer - "A Little Daisy," Katahdin Iron Works, 1890

"… time to attend school, also washed & done up the family clothing. Her younger brother often came to my chamber to see me draw & paint the Iron…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal

"The first would be a history of his family, sprinkled with his "own editorials" from time to time. He wanted his children to know how the "pioneers"…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 2 of 2

"… and Maine State Museum The growing Raynes family and John Martin moved several times to locations in Brewer and Hampden, and finally to Bangor…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 1 of 2

"But that family security did not last, either. Adams was charged with brutally murdering his wife on May 12, 1815."

John Martin: Expert Observer - About This Project

"Martin's writings then passed into the family of Rebecca Raynes Stevens' brother-in-law, Isaac Stevens, eventually ending up with his granddaughter…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 2 of 3

"… required royal court dress, and seen in her 1783 portrait by Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun (Metropolitan Museum of Art)."

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 2 of 2

"Members of one of the city’s most prominent families, the five Deering sisters are fashionably dressed and artistically posed around their mother…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Stairs-Beckwith Farm, Presque Isle, ca. 1950

"… had aerial photographs taken so that a large portrait of the farm buildings could be displayed in a prominent place in the home."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

"Landscape Photography Bemis Family, South Paris, ca. 1870Maine Historical Society Communities beyond the Portland area are also represented…"

Early Maine Photography - War

"At the age of eighteen, James Davis left his family farm in Plymouth to join Company I of the Ninth Maine Regiment."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"Probably built by the Fox family in the 1790s, the two story wooden hip-roofed building housed the grocery business of Daniel Fox and his son Daniel…"