Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Jasper Beckwith Spraying Potatoes, Presque Isle, 1940

"Jasper Beckwith Spraying Potatoes, Presque Isle, 1940 Contributed by Presque Isle Historical Society Description Horses were still used in…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 4 of 4

"… dark forests, water crashing to granite rock, spray leaping high in the air, rainbow rising in the spray – a sight to behold! – unbelievable the…"

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

"… throughout with colorful hand-embroidered floral sprays, and chenille bobble fringe. The embroidery evokes daisies, berries, wheat, cattails and…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 3 of 4

"… throughout with colorful hand embroidered floral sprays and a deep chenille bobble fringe edges the sleeves and basque."

Historic Hallowell - Protect and Serve - Hallowell Fire and Police

"… tubs", were created which were able to propel a spray of water upon fires. The first of such devices, known as "The Cascade, was built in…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 1 of 3

"… leafy serpentine stripes, and scattered floral sprays. The gown features a sack back with pleats falling from the shoulders into a train, a style…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"… it dashed back on them with great mountains of spray.” “We have paddled with dear old Big Thunder, when the waves rocked us in his little canoe…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"… and the Oxford Paper Company were constantly sprayed with water to reduce the possibility of fires."

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"Salt spray and dominating fog wreaked severe deterioration within twenty years. A second lighthouse of rubble masonry took over in 1831, the hastily…"