Maine Memory Network

World War 1 envelope with censor stamp, 1918

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1918-06-06 Location: Canaan Media: Ink on paper

Topsail schooner, ca. 1877

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1877 Media: Oil on canvas

721-723 Congress Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Mary Holt Use: Dwelling - Single Family & Doctors Office

53-63 Bowdoin Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Helen C Holt Style: Georgian Use: Dwelling - Single family

Walker Street improvement for Dr. Holt, Portland, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Portland Client: E. E. Holt Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Northern Threads: The rise and fall of the gigot sleeve

A themed exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring the balloon-like gigot sleeve of the 1830s.

Luxurious Leisure

From the last decades of the nineteenth century through about the 1920s, vacationers were attracted to large resort hotels that promised a break from the noise, crowds, and pressures of an ever-urbanizing country.

Blue Hill Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Bar Harbor: Building of Arts

"Holt with no immediate announcement of its future use. Then a mere three years later in April 1947 the Holts sold the building to Consuello Sides of…"