Maine Memory Network

Sullivan and Sorrento Historical Society

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Millinocket Fire Department

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St. Joseph Healthcare

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Early Maine Photography - Studio Portraits

"… photography and the larger scale, and more costly tradition of portrait painting. Samuel L. Carleton of Portland often used the devices of…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Wrappers, Teagowns & At Home Dresses

"… & At Home Dresses Slide Show Wrapper is the traditional term used for the gowns gathered under this heading."

Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"… tree, they help us to appreciate a spirit and tradition of creating gardens at the turn of century that still illuminates and inspires new gardens…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 3 of 5

"In Wabanaki languages and traditional stories, these relationships are paramount. It is difficult to talk about land or people without using kinship…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Granite and Ice Industries

"One traditional employment that helped sustain some through these times was the ice industry, which had started in Maine 100 years earlier and peaked…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"If the island's seagoing tradition had diminished, the summer yachting scene allowed many shipbuilders to continue on a smaller scale."

Historic Hallowell - The Fireman's Musters in Hallowell

"… Hampshire, keeping many cities' and towns' muster traditions going. Hallowell musters were probably sponsored or were helped put on by the New…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Historical Society

"… in 1961 to protect the rich history, heritage and traditions of Scarborough. Its mission is to share this history with the community by collecting…"

Blue Hill Public Library

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Monson Historical Society

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Moosehead Historical Society

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Maine Folklife Center, University of Maine

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Historic Clothing Collection - Mid Twentieth Century

"… shoppers retained a preference for more familiar, traditional styles of dress. Factions formed, iconic styles took hold, and silhouettes…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1930-1940 - Page 2 of 4

"… reminiscent of the Fortuny "Delphic" pleating tradition. All three garments are labelled "Jessie Franklin Turner, 410 Park Avenue, New York," the…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4

"… Frank Van Riper in the early Nineties showed how traditional the process was without intending to do so."

Western Maine Foothills Region - About the Project

"… River Valley towns of MSAD’s 21 and 43 have traditionally close ties, and that part of the merger made a natural fit."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s

"… on the old lifeways, Wabanakis now marketed their traditional arts, crafts, and canoeing skills to rusticators who visited their tented encampments."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor

"As for Wabanakis, some followed tradition, paddling age-old canoe routes. Others rode the same trains, steamboats, and stagecoaches as everyone else…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 1 of 13

"… 1895Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum A tradition unique to many Aroostook County residents has been the participation in the potato…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 2 of 2

"The tradition of Biddeford as a place of possibility for those seeking a better life for themselves and their families has been renewed, manifested…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 1 of 3

"… people, and like many other islands, had its own traditions and culture which you could say were more oriented toward the seafaring life."