Maine Memory Network
Maine's Online Museum

Title: Lobster fisherman poster, 1963

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: 1963

Media: Photograph

Title: Wooden lobster traps, South Bristol, ca. 1978

Contributed by: South Bristol Historical Society

Date: circa 1978

Location: South Bristol

Media: color photograph

Title: Lobsterman holding one giant lobster, Swan's Island, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Swan's Island Educational Society

Date: circa 1930

Location: Swan's Island

Media: black and white photograph

Umbazooksus & Beyond

Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag

The history of a 350+-year-old city south of Portland, the Scarborough site was constructed by representatives from Scarborough Historical Society, Scarborough Middle School, and Scarborough Public Library. Exhibits include the marsh, transportation and roads, shipyards and shipwrecks, clamming and lobstering, famous residents, and education.

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary

A look back at island life in Maine as captured by a team consisting of Swan's Island Educational Society representatives, which encompasses the community's library and historical society, a class from the Swan's Island School, and an Island Fellow from the Island Institute. Exhibit topics examine islanders at work and play, Baird's Quarry, old buildings, and the changing role of women on the island.