Maine Memory Network
Maine's Online Museum

Title: Authors group lithograph, 1883

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: circa 1883

Media: Lithograph

Title: Game of Authors playing card

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: circa 1900

Location: Portland; Cambridge; Portland; Cambridge

Media: Paper

Title: Game of Authors playing cards

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: circa 1900

Location: Portland; Cambridge; Portland; Cambridge

Media: Paper

Writing Women

Published women authors with ties to Maine are too numerous to count. They have made their marks in all types of literature.

Picturing Henry

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's popularity in the 19th century is reflected by the number of images of him -- in a variety of media -- that were produced and reproduced, some to go with published works of his, but many to be sold to the public on cards and postcards.

Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village

The history of a small western Maine community north of Farmington as told by a team consisting of Strong Historical Society, Strong Elementary School, and Strong Public Library. Exhibit topics include Strong's prominence in the wood products industry (it was once the "Toothpick Capital of the World"), the "Bridge that Changed the Map," schools and educational history, clubs and organizations, "Fly Rod" Crosby, the first Maine guide, and a rich student section related to the Civil War and post-Civil War era in the town.