Maine Memory Network

Historic Clothing Collection - Square shouldered cape and suit ensemble, ca. 1943 - Page 1 of 3

"An avid world traveler, perhaps Lucile Atkinson Baker (1892-1976) wore the suit on one of her many trips."

Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 2 of 2

"… history, and art (2019), Designing Acadia (2017), World War I and the Maine Experience (2017), Fashionable Maine: early twentieth century clothing…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahoc County Courthouse

"… There is also a quotation at the bottom: “The world will little note what we say, but it can never forget what they did.” This is a quote from…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 6 of 6

"… honor and the United States’ legitimacy on the world stage. It was a new version of a defining problem in the history of early Maine: conflicts…"

Early Maine Photography - The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection

"Army during World War II. After the war, he resumed teaching, first in Dexter and then in Brewer, retiring in 1981."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 4 of 4

"… Weaponizing Settlement in the Gulf of Maine World, 1710-1800” (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2020). Saxine, Ian."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Lockheed 10A, Presque Isle, 1940

"… the airfield became an Army Air Base during World War I. A U.S. Army Air Corp Douglas C-47 is in the background."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"Early in the century, as the demand for wooden ships decreased, most of Bath’s shipyards closed. World War I created an increased demand for ships…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Railroad Station

"… vane depicting a destroyer at the start of World War II. The newly built station served as a passenger station and freight depot for eighteen years…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Dreamland and Liberty

"… 1919 to the Liberty Theatre, to honor the end of World War I. After the Liberty Theatre closed in 1923, the building then became the Liberty Garage…"

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 1 of 2

"Two of these wars, the Civil War and World War II were without question the costliest in terms of manpower and materiel."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Hampden House Bar, 1837

"… he described his life and his observations of the world around him. He wrote that he had not intended to illustrate the journal, but did so because…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Dancing, Bangor, ca. 1865

"… the illustration, "Of all the amusements in the world Dancing properly conducted is the most innocent, civil, cheapest, and respectable." View…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Northeast Airlines DC-3, Presque Isle, ca. 1945

"… A Northeast Airlines DC-3 is parked at the post World War II Presque Isle Air Terminal Building on outer Mechanic Street bordering Presque Isle…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"1950Patten Free Library In the time of World War II, Bath became a busy town. Shipbuilders needed clothes, gloves, boots and more, and they turned…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrapbook 3: 1867-

"… pages 129-end Grant-Wilson Rally in Augusta, election results, Greeley's death,   Bangor Commercial article on World's Fair contest X"

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

"All the plants managed to scrape by during the Depression, and when war broke out in 1941 they were all very busy with production of war goods."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 3 of 3

"Carroll's Auto Sales During World War II, General Motors was making just enough cars to stay in business because they were making tanks to help the…"

Guilford, Maine - MANUFACTURING - Page 1 of 2

"1940Guilford Historical Society After World War Ⅱ, in 1947, Drapers Mill was founded by Fletcher Pride. It was built in 1947-1948."

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"… from the olive-drab pessimism of the First World War, in 1918 people of Guilford gathered in the square and celebrated as they burned the Kaiser in…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Welcome to Strong

"… was known as “The Largest Toothpick Center in the World,” due to the vision of Charles Forster, inventor of the machinery to mass-produce the wood…"

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"While the world remains in conflict in all corners and the global economy is as scary as it’s ever been, Guilford will survive."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Artists and Inventors of Biddeford

"… in the theater, rallying patriotic fervor with World War I artwork, or inventing new technology to keep a local industry booming, Biddeford has…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Overview

"With the final product complete, many students are excited to share their exhibits with the world."