Maine Memory Network

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

"Note how the workers appear, casually working and walking atop the I-beam. Higher tides than normal come during new moons, as occurred on a cold…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - East New Portland Village

"… insurance, a canning factory, tin, steel and iron-worker, boot and shoe maker(2),carpenter, physician and surgeon, fruit grower, dealers in…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… filled cans waiting on trays on one side of each worker. Solder would still have to be used to seal the cans."

Historic Hallowell - Nature's Bounty - Raw Material, Close at Hand

"The quarry worker gives scale to the granite slab. Stone and statuary were protected during shipment (by ship, and after 1852, by rail) in crates…"

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

"Hundreds of workers, many of them Italian immigrants who had been working on the railroad in Machias, were drawn to the project with promises of high…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"… Fernwood Grange, the Farm Bureau, and the Willing Workers. Bridge Clubs were also popular. Houses were cleaned from top to bottom in order to…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"Warren Clark was a consistent and persistent hard worker and the New Portland Water District still serves part of the North Village."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"There she photographed two workers in the Brining Room who have been identified as Leeman Wilcox and Richard Munson."

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

"… Sheds, the artifacts left there, and memories of workers help in understanding the work. Natalie Havens, who used to work at McCurdy’s, made an…"

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

"1910 with owner and workers posed is one example. Herring boxes and shooks at McCurdy's, Lubec, 1998Lubec Landmarks Herring boxes: The…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… for getting them [potatoes] to market.” While workers completed the road that linked Presque Isle to Houlton and then to the southern parts of the…"

Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"In spring, workers from out of state came to drive the logs. The whole thing was a year-round process."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"He was also physically fit and was a very hard worker. Shep married a woman named Margarite Littlefield."

Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976

"… rising water caught many shoppers and downtown workers by surprise. Photo courtesy of the Bangor Daily News X 1976 February 2, 1976 was a warm…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry and Immigrants-A Changing Community

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

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"The workers were the lumberjacks who would work for months clearing acres of heavily forested land to finally send the logs down the Penobscot River…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Wood Products of Strong

"… they provide employment for the residents, but workers came from all the surrounding towns. Lumbermen from miles around worked to provide the raw…"

Historic Hallowell - Sweat on the Kennebec ~ Hallowell Steam and Boom Company

"The river is calm and workers are dressed in pants and long sleeved shirts. Hallowell was the location of the great sorting boom for down-river mills."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrapbook 1: 1885-1899, Katahdin Iron Works, Silver Lake Hotel

"… Hotel, which served both tourist interests and workers at the Iron Works. Even though the name of the company changed over the years as business…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"Because of the increase of population, railroad workers felt that Stockholm needed its own railroad."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"As transportation improved, allowing the town to transport students to school, the number of schools decreased to three in 1896, then again to one, a…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"The closing of the mills would cost 561 workers their jobs and impact nearly half of the town’s tax income. Building of tissue mill, Lincoln, ca."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"Shipyard workers, like sailors of the time, were fueled by a daily ration of grog, served at eleven o’clock."

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"Many of us followed the workers to the mill and there was John MacGregor, smiling at the door, holding an envelope for each man."