Maine Memory Network

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 4 of 5

"It was on this day the library's name officially changed from the Guilford Free Public Library to the Guilford Memorial Library."

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"In 1771, public schools were established and in 1795 the Hallowell Academy opened, one of the first classical academies in the District of Maine (a…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"… Harris May poetry collection, 1903Farmington Public Library Return to Student Research The May Sisters, Julia and Sara Julia Harris May was born…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 4 of 4

"His big problem was not downright opposition, but public indifference. In 1928, he scored the first major breakthrough after the town voted funds for…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"… they could not, in the transaction of their public business, express feelings of cordiality.” With this change, the Ellsworth post office was in…"

Blake Library Special Collections, UMFK

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Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy

"… encouraging Catherine McAuley to stabilize the work force and the important work by forming a religious institute."

Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 2 of 3

"A 1930s publication emphasized the rise of “an entirely new idea of a nurse” that was concerned not just with treatment but prevention of illness."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection

"… broad and extensive use of photography in their publications; they were especially active in aerial photography and owned several company planes…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"Curtis Free Public Library and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Hannibal Hamlin Hannibal Hamlin was a very well-known and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"The most public of their many collaborations resulted in the expansion of the Asticou Terraces Trust to include another 100 acres on Eliot Mountain…"

Maine State Museum

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Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"… the Surry Playhouse to the summer theater-going public of coastal Hancock County. Just months before the start of the Great Depression, a group of…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"Public services also expanded with time. Fires on Swan's Island are fought with volunteer efforts, but a truck and fire station were acquired in the…"

Westport Island History Committee

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Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 2 of 2

"… receiving charity care—had what a 1968 hospital publication called “social problems” and that they often returned to Mercy after their discharge…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"While poor white families received public assistance, Maliseets were denied public assistance until the late 1970s."

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"… our Primary School, the library got computers for public use, and a boat launch was installed on the Piscataquis River."

Otisfield Historical Society

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Colby College Special Collections

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"Aroostook Valley Railroad and Maine Public Service Company building, Presque Isle, 1921Presque Isle Historical Society Gould’s original plan was to…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… State Normal School that trained teachers, a public library sponsored by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, the Aroostook Valley Railroad (an electric…"