Maine Memory Network

Monson Fire of 1897

Contributed by: Monson Historical Society Date: 1897-01-12 Location: Monson Media: Photographic print

1897 Hose Cart

Contributed by: Bar Harbor Fire Department Date: 1897 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Metal and Wood

Will Bird House, Rockland, 1897

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1897 Location: Rockland Client: Will Bird Architect: John Calvin Stevens

House for Mr. Andrew Chaplin, Orono, 1897

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1897 Location: Orono Client: Andrew Chaplin Architect: Coombs, Gibbs, and Wilkinson Architects

Educating Oneself: Carnegie Libraries

Industrialist Andrew Carnegie gave grants for 20 libraries in Maine between 1897 and 1912, specifying that the town own the land, set aside funds for maintenance, have room to expand -- and offer library services at no charge.

Chansonetta Stanley Emmons: Staging the Past

Chansonetta Stanley Emmons (1858-1937) of Kingfield, Maine, experimented with the burgeoning artform of photography. Starting in 1897, Emmons documented the lives of people, many in rural and agricultural regions in Maine and around the world. Often described as recalling a bygone era, this exhibition features glass plate negatives and painted lantern slides from the collections of the Stanley Museum in Kingfield on deposit at Maine Historical Society, that present a time of rapid change, from 1897 to 1926.

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Madame Nordica concert poster, ca. 1897

"The year is not certain, but Nordica undertook a tour of the United States in 1897. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory…"

Hose 5 Fire Museum

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Minik Wallace 1891-1918
by Genevieve LeMoine, The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum

The life of Minik, an Inuit person from Greenland who grew up in New York City.

Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey

Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics