Maine Memory Network

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 2 of 3

"Famous People Hannibal Hamlin, ca. 1860Maine Historical Society Hannibal Hamlin This ambrotype of Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1891) probably dates…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"Famous People Governor Enoch Lincoln Enoch Lincoln, Paris, 1827Maine Historical Society Governor Enoch Lincoln died in 1829, a decade before…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Illustrations: People & Fashion

"… Illustrations: People & Fashion"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 4 of 4

"By 1875, Homer stopped working as a commercial lithographer and focused on his painting. Following two years in England (1881-1882), Homer returned…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

"People Who Called Scarborough Home Rufus King Rufus King of Scarborough, ca. 1820Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Rufus King, the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - People

"People Explore essays pertaining to individuals, communities, and key players across the Pejepscot and Kennebec Proprietors, and the Northeast…"

Mercy Hospital - People of Mercy - Page 1 of 2

"People of Mercy In their administration of Queen’s and then Mercy Hospital, the Sisters of Mercy fostered a culture of loyalty and service to the…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

"The sardine factory alone employed 100 people at the height of its success. A story continues even today that for years and years after the medicinal…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Brick Works

"Henry Knox: Brick Works Brick from Montpelier, Thomaston, 1794The General Henry Knox Museum The Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works

"Henry Knox: Lime Works Limestone quarry, Thomaston, ca. 1880 One hundred years after Henry Knox's involvement, lime quarrying was still an…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"… became a favorite summering place of Indigenous peoples. European settlers made broad use if its natural resources, but the discovery by artists in…"

Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"You know, people worked and every Saturday and Saturday night people would go downtown and that was a treat, to go downtown and sit watching all the…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 1 of 17

"People were migrating to the area to work in the mills and the supporting businesses that supplied them."

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

"… Report, the Overseer of the Poor stated that 873 people were assisted either on or off the farm, and a second house had to be procured to house all…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 3 of 3

"… of the 20th century output was high in terms of people and products, and the busts of 1930's would not hit this area in the same way as many parts…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - ABOUT US

"… of Biddeford in one place and to educate the people of Biddeford in their cultural heritage. It now exists as a distinct corporation in the State…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War & Biddeford

"… and the smiles of Heaven rest again upon a united people." -Mayor John Q. Adams, in the 1863-64 City Report These words were spoken by Mayor John Q."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 1 of 2

"… in Biddeford and throughout Maine were lower, people who would have made a good living in manufacturing were underemployed and working poor, and…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"Native peoples would be drawn in to these battles by both sides, suffering greatly during what was probably the most violent period of Biddeford…"

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

"They worked right along with them. It was no different for the owners who were generally their own managers."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"… Frank Van Riper, made a number of photographs of people and their work at McCurdy’s the last year of operation."

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

"… surprising the modern eyes is the number of young people working there in this 1900 photo and others of the era."

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

"But work remained. A bright new brick building was erected to house permanently U.S. Customs and the U.S. Postal Service under a single roof."

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

"… Comstock.Lubec Memorial Library Why were so many people willing to invest their life savings and even mortgage homes to become participants in…"