Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - The Fireman's Musters in Hallowell

"… who owned cars or some motorized, old, mechanical machine. Most contests were between teams of firemen."

Historic Hallowell - The Tiger and the Lion

"… Hallowell, 1843Hubbard Free Library The machine was built to be hauled by a horse team or truck."

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… societies, India trade, turnpikes, physics, brick machines etc., bridges, bank stock, Society To Direct Foreigners, aquaducts etc., etc., etc."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"… refrigerators, and our showers, and our washing machines. And so all of a sudden we didn’t have any of those things."

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"A “machine room” and a “laboratory” were constructed. Beneath them, in the water, were placed specially constructed wooden boxes called accumulators…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 4 of 4

"… different production stations (welding, wood, machine, and paint shops) and exit on the other side of the building a finished fire truck ready for…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century

"Ichabod Washburn, also of Massachusetts, developed wire to make sewing machine needles, and spring steel wire for hoop skirts and bustle supports."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 1 of 4

"They also made other types of threads to supply the county’s new narrow goods industry, now manufacturing decorative braids, cords, ribbons…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 1 of 3

"A new machine shop was added in 1993, a larger warehouse in 1995, and the company continues to expand as a well established presence in the medical…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1930-1940 - Page 4 of 4

"… rayon full length georgette evening dress with machine lace detailing and featuring the same striking wide panel of machine lace inset at the…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Wood Products of Strong

"… Society Charles Forster of Boston developed a machine to mass-produce toothpicks. After experimenting with many species of wood he determined that…"

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Theater

"The company bought the machines to play movies in 1904, but they didn’t put them in until 1923. When they installed the machines in the new building…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Lace and fringe trimmed walking dress, ca. 1865 - Page 1 of 4

"The bodice is trimmed with machine-made blue fringe, knotted at the header, and black machine-made lace at the neck, peplum waist (short, gathered…"

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"… wood from the local area and they used different machines that upgraded and changed over time. John MacGregor was born in the Highlands of Scotland…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Organdy summer dress, ca. 1863 - Page 1 of 4

"While the seams on the skirt are machine stitched, the details on the bodice were worked by hand. The dress dates between 1860 and 1865, a…"

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 1 of 2

"… of the lines and succeeded in destroying several machine guns and killing numerous enemy riflemen. His gallant and heroic actions were an…"

Guilford, Maine - MANUFACTURING - Page 1 of 2

"From the moulder, which is a machine that shapes wood with cutters like sharp knives, they went into wood-turning lathes."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1900-1910 - Page 2 of 3

"One is a combination of crochet and machine lace medallions, and the second a darned filet-type cotton lace."

Life on a Tidal River - Fashion of the '40s

"… women went to work in factories to help make machines. Because of this new need for women in the workplace, it meant that women’s styles would have…"

Lincoln, Maine - Jonathan Clay Jr.

"and they have to use big machines with traffic coming in every direction. When you’re in war, you have to move around a lot and try not to get hurt…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1920-1930 - Page 3 of 3

"… dress entirely covered with red and green machine embroidery. Knee length party dresses include a royal blue solid beaded sleeveless chemise; a…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 2 of 4

"… colored heavy rayon taffeta dress featuring machine embroidered swirls embellishing the full skirt, which is designed to be worn with a supportive…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 1 of 3

"… Mitchell and Braun," is pale blue with a heavy machine lace bodice, a belted waist, and long knit Crimplene skirt of narrow permanently heat set…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… the White Granite Company had cutting sheds and a machine shop erected on their wharf. The late Robert Slaven, descendant of previous owners of the…"