Maine Memory Network

Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"Churches in the city held open air masses to prevent infections from spreading. Schools and public places closed as well."

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"… furnished it with objects needed for celebrating mass. He was an artist and he painted pictures of religious subjects."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"… soldier in the Civil War in the fifty-third Mass. Infantry and the sixth Maine Battery light artillery."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 3 of 4

"In the 1870s, mass-produced paper was inexpensive enough to use in the everyday classroom which allowed students to write and keep longer pieces of…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"Yarmouth register, 1904. Reprint. Salem, Mass.: Higginson Book Co., n.d. Originally published Brunswick, Maine: H.E. Mitchell Pub., 1904."

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

"… Company, which could burn oil, wood bio-mass, coal, chipped rubber, auto tires, and natural gas as fuel to produce steam at 1250 psi."

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… engineer and entrepreneur from Wellesley, Mass bought the necessary material to build a piping system from Bennett Pond in Parkman to Guilford. In…"

Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"We have so much mass communication today that it shouldn’t be a problem. We have all these communication devices today from the telegraph first being…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"… would remain so into the early 1900s, until the mass production of automobiles slowly replaced them."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… being situated next to the Block and was soon a mass of ruins. Plaisted Tannery Fire, Lincoln, 1899Lincoln Historical Society In 1889, E."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… depot on Commercial Street, there was a “dense mass of human beings, so much so that it was next to impossible for the Regiment to get through it…"

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Acadian Archives

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