Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - Bangor High School, Abbott Square, 1865

"Bangor High School, Abbott Square, 1865 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description Noted Bangor architect…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Division Street School, Bangor, 1865

"Division Street School, Bangor, 1865 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description John Martin (1823-1904)…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865

"Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description The south side and west end…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Interior plans, Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865

"Interior plans, Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description The plans of…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Primary and intermediate school, Bangor, 1865

"Primary and intermediate school, Bangor, 1865 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description The primary and…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry and Immigrants-A Changing Community

"… Changing Community Workers in Wiler's Oil Cloth Factory.Hubbard Free Library When the railroad came to Hallowell in 1851 it appeared that…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Years on Mt. Desert Island

"… preserving the food, spinning and weaving the clothing, cooking and tending the children. The first physician came to Mt. Desert Island in 1799."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Industries

"… defray the cost of keeping a prisoner fed and clothed. A woodworking shop was added, in which prisoners were taught how to build wooden wagons…"

Early Maine Photography - Occupational

"… Bangor origin depict river drivers in their work clothes and spiked leather boots. In one of these images, two loggers exhibit the tools of their…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"In the John Scales building there was a clothing store ran by CF Scales and Company. It was only a men’s clothing store."

Lincoln, Maine - Osgood's Store

"After the renovation of Osgood’s they put some of the clothing in the basement. The renovation is still there today because Marden’s is bigger than…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3

"… Library These citizens would either have food, clothing or medicine brought to their home if they had one, or if they had no home they would join…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Andrew Anderson

"And if you had older brother and sisters then you wore their clothes down the line down the line down the line."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Mills and Homes in Stockholm

"… a plywood mill, veneer mill, baseball bat mill, clothes pin mill, bowling pin mill, two lumber mills, cedar mill, shingle mill, and a lath mill…"

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

"… Ball or Way-Back Ball, where people dressed in clothes from an earlier time. The halls also housed the village basketball teams and intense…"

Camden-Rockport Historical Society

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"Did your dad work? He was a boat builder so he had to find some other jobs to help out with money. Were kids affected? I think they all were."

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"… and also produced wood-block patterns for the oil-cloth factories. Later it produced wooden lasts for the shoe factories."

Life on a Tidal River - Fashion of the '40s

"… them pantyhose) as well as many other articles of clothing due to the need for the materials in the war."

Mount Desert Island Historical Society

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Early Maine Photography - Art

"The unframed portrait shows a man in formal clothing writing with a quill pen. The painting style is reminiscent of the Readfield artist Jonathan…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"Erlrie Holmes operated a clothing store and lived in the back with his family. Across Main Street was a drug store, originally owned Mr."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"Another company was built to make clothes pins, peavey and pick–pole handles, whiffle–trees, snowshoes and perforated chair seats."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"Shipbuilders needed clothes, gloves, boots and more, and they turned to Sears Roebuck for affordable clothing."