Maine Memory Network

Mercy Hospital - 100 Years of Mercy Hospital

"… contributed by Mercy Hospital and Ian Saxine, MHS Historian. Queen's Hospital administration building, Portland, ca."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Shipbuilders - 1780s

"Eaton, an early town historian, reports the first vessel launched in old Thomaston was in 1787 on the Wessaweskeag, in what is now South Thomaston."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - About Us

"Historians, researchers, librarians, teachers and students have all combined their skills to produce a single historical artifact which can tell the…"

Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society

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Maine Folklife Center, University of Maine

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Mercy Hospital - Portland Hospitals Before Mercy

"… Mercy Text contributions from Ian Saxine, MHS Historian. Items courtesy of Maine Memory and Maine Medical Center Archive."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 4 of 4

"Damiano, Ph.D. is a historian of women and gender in early America and the Atlantic World. At the time this essay was written (2022), Prof."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 2 of 5

"… Acknowledgement In the twenty-first century, historians and tribal scholars have turned to these documents for different kinds of evidence…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866

"… genealogies gathered and written by John McKeen, historian and one of the founding members of the Maine Historical Society."

Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"… Flu Text contributions from Ian Saxine, MHS Historian. Items courtesy of Mercy Hospital and Maine Memory Network."

Historic Hallowell - Martha Ballard

"… of the diary was known for some time local historians were reluctant to accord it any significance: James North: "brief and with some exceptions…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - People

"… and furniture maker Educators, Authors, and Historians Edward Abbott 1841–1908: American clergyman, journalist, and author; son of Jacob Abbott…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Incorporation

"Some local historians believe that Wheelersborough was simply considered too long a name. Whatever the reason, the area officially became Hampden on…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Introduction

"The historian Fannie Hardy Eckstorm wrote that Native Americans named the Souadabscook Stream, which in their language meant “sloping ledge stream."…"

Patten Free Library

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Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 1 of 2

"… Text contributions from Ian Saxine, MHS Historian. Items courtesy of Mercy Hospital. Keeping Up With the Times Plot plan for the new Mercy…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"Historian William Willis assigned original ownership of the treasure to the seventeenth century Richmond’s Island trader Walter Bagnall, and the…"

Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 2 of 2

"To paraphrase prominent dress historian Anne M. Buck, when surviving specimens of dress are studied in the same way as other material evidence of…"

Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 1 of 2

"… Narrative by Jacqueline Field, textile and dress historian Maine Historical Society’s Historic Dress Collection is an amalgamation of primarily…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Northern Threads: Two centuries of dress at Maine Historical Society - Page 2 of 3

"However, as dress historian Valerie Cumming stated “All of these methods cannot recapture the past without imposing upon it our system of values.”…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Northern Threads: Two centuries of dress at Maine Historical Society - Page 1 of 3

"… with narratives authored by fashion and textile historian Jacqueline Field. Much of the Northern Threads exhibition is drawn from the MMN portal."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"Damiano, Fall 2022 Sara T. Damiano, PhD, is an historian of women and gender in early America and the Atlantic World, and an associate professor at…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"… and Kennebeck Road, 1820Maine Historical Society Historian Francis M. Carroll’s A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 1 of 4

"… documents and making them relevant to non-historians is often daunting. The Beyond Borders collections, specifically the Proprietors records…"