Maine Memory Network

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 2 of 2

"… serious tone reflected in the expressions of her girls. These are faces hardened by the experience of life in pre-Civil War rural Maine."

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 1 of 2

"… shrouded in mystery is the daguerreotype of five girls, including one with a cleft lip. What brought them together in a photographer’s studio –…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1900-1910 - Page 1 of 3

"… yet, examples of practical, back pleat, "Gibson Girl" skirts and little in the way of smart shirt blouses are found in the MHS collection."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 2 of 3

"… of educational opportunities, especially for girls, which included creating college-level courses available to young ladies."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 1 of 4

"… in the late 1950s to early 1960s, the custom of girls and young women dressing or wearing hair and make-up like their mothers, faded away."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block

"… picture, like the Hatch portrait of the little girls, was elaborately printed in gilded letters that advertised his good taste, location, and…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor During the 1940s

"… their reading of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Guest speaker Reverend Dr. Henry Wyman shares stories on life in Bangor during the '40s…"

Historic Hallowell - Values and Charity

"A.C. Dummer proposed an Industrial School for Girls, which was founded in 1874. Its objective was to provide safe housing and a moral, social and…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Jacob Abbott

"Vernon, a high school for girls, with his brother in Boston. In 1834, Jacob moved from Boston to Roxbury, MA."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - New Sweden Athletic Club

"… did not just have ski teams but hockey, boys and girls basketball, gymnastic and track teams. Even thought they had other sports, the winter ones…"

Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 1 of 2

"The Kelley girl was eventually carried to shore by Miss Stella M. Burhoe, Ridge School teacher...” Miriam Kelley & Wyman Ramsdell X Miriam…"

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"The girls would gather nuts, greens, roots and firewood. They also would help with the cooking and carrying of the household goods to the summer or…"

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"“The two prettiest girls in Surry—Phebe and Ellen.” Then right beneath it in a different hand: “They are not so.” Phebe’s losses had not yet aged her."

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 1 of 2

"a man or woman boy or girl may look back and sigh for some small relic hereby to enliven their memory perhaps in a distant county when even a person…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"A Piece Of The World, Orphan Train, Orphan Train Girl, Bird In Hand, The Way Life Should Be, Desire Lines, Sweet Water, About Me, Child Of Mine, Room…"

Pejepscot Historical Society

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

"Girls and boys sat on separate sides and the younger smaller children sat towards the front of the room, with the older larger children in back."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - A Murder In Strong

"… was never any solid evidence that he murdered the girl, but he was considered a solid suspect, and was arrested and held for nearly a year until…"

Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy

"… – to assist her to educate young children and girls, visit the poor and care for the sick in their homes, as well as to train low income women as…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"I was a small girl, but was allowed to go and stay until 10 o’clock. Lots of older folks and young ones to came from Down Town."

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

"… the owners of the clothing saw the photo, the “girls had quite a time getting out of that fix.” Main Street looking west, Northeast Harbor…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… Academy was the first in Hancock County to allow girls to attend. Despite the plethora of course offerings, in 1852 there were only three teachers…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"… son Harry moved to Gray after he married and the girls moved to other farms around town, Skyline stayed in the Dolloff family until 1970."