Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 139-194

"… & Billings lines Sheriff Wingate Carr Fire at old Hampden Academy George H. Starbird Temperance Seth Merrill Tavern & Hall Thomas Greenhalgh…"

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

"… began to sail off bearing easterly." His 6-year-old daughter, Ada, commented, while the balloon was at its highest point about "poor man one mile…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Dancing Fraternity, City of Bangor, 1868

"1868Maine Historical Society In March 1889, when he was 66 years old, John Martin of Bangor led a "grand march" at an inauguration day dance in…"

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

"… Ellsworth, died when his only child was 11 months old. Because John Martin did not know much about his father, he wanted to insure that his…"

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

"… Historical Society Expensive establishment old style couture or similar high style-type clothing still retained appeal, but only to a shrinking…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Patten Free Library

"… relate to history, because it's over 110 years old. It has had time to grow and gain stories of its own."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block

"The builders had the angel moved to the Old North Church so it would not be destroyed. Also the builders had the angel's red boots turned to…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"These buildings are from 167 to 177 years old, and create the heart of Bath's downtown. Physically they are at the center of Merchants' Row and that…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block

"… Masons, a man must have been at least 21 years old and had lived in the vicinity of a Masonic lodge for one year."

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

"… were brought into the new block, most of the old businesses were brought back to start where they had left off."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… changes, including the replacement of the old town hall building at the northeast corner of Centre and Water Streets with a new building to house…"

Lubec, Maine - A Signature Quilt

"… Kelley, Woodward, Guptill, and Small...all old-time Lubec families. Quilting brought women of the 19th Century together socially while engaging in…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"Housed in the old Masonic Hall in one large room, there were forty in the entering class. A state law was passed in 1904, requiring towns to…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Today, the old town hall is the home of the Islesboro Historical Society, established in 1964. Free Will Baptist Church, Islesboro, ca."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"Eighteen-year-old Evelyn was daughter of Bion Moses Pike, owner of the Lubec Sardine Co., who had donated the land to the town for the Civil War…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… toil, and intermarry; family names centuries old mingle through intermarriage across the border. They coveted a bridge bonding that boundary."

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

"… hope that they will take millions of dollars from old Passamaquoddy Bay – and we believe they will! With quantities of gold in the salt water there…"

Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"C.H.B." In the case of nineteen year old Henry I. Hanscom of China, the search for gold in California proved fatal, for he died of small pox in…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… packing sardines in 1931 when she was 14 years old. “Herring choker was the nickname given to the women who packed sardines,” she recalled."

Early Maine Photography - Occupational

"The lady’s plain dress and her old rocking chair indicate a rural origin for this tintype. Tintype of woman knitting, ca."

Early Maine Photography - The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection

"… own, whether it is the forbidding visage of an old deacon or the artless innocence of a child. They convey an artistry of another period and…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Welcome

"… a place that brings together the new and the old, the ocean and the land. It creates a stronger sense of community through a greater understanding…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Mourning Clothing

"… cotton dresses, or remaking and dyeing an old one. Black silks or mourning crape were another class of, often unaffordable, mourning."

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

"While pirating French couture designs was an old practice, in the 1950s some U.S. manufacturers contracted and made arrangements with French…"