Maine Memory Network

Vintage Tripp teardrop emergency light, Waldoboro, ca. 1960

Contributed by: Waldoboro Fire Department Date: circa 1960 Location: Waldoboro Media: Plastic, metal

Howard Gray, ca. 1945

Contributed by: West Quoddy Head Light Keepers Association Date: circa 1945 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print

Maine Medical Center, Bramhall Campus

Maine Medical Center, founded as Maine General Hospital, has dominated Portland’s West End since its construction in 1871 on Bramhall Hill. As the medical field grew in both technological and social practice, the facility of the hospital also changed. This exhibit tracks the expansion and additions to that original building as the hospital adapted to its patients’ needs.

Fashionable Maine: early twentieth century clothing

Maine residents kept pace with the dramatic shift in women’s dress that occurred during the short number of years preceding and immediately following World War I. The long restrictive skirts, stiff collars, body molding corsets and formal behavior of earlier decades quickly faded away and the new straight, dropped waist easy-to-wear clothing gave mobility and freedom of movement in tune with the young independent women of the casual, post-war jazz age generation.

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"Emergency Generators X The old boiler building now houses emergency automatic-start generators and telemetry equipment."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"A folk vocabulary of the industry emerges. The building was divided up into “houses,” generally three of them, and further, into “bays” with “rails”…"

Florence Ahlquist Link's WWII service in the WAVES
by Earlene Ahlquist Chadbourne

Florence Ahlquist, age 20, was trained to repair the new aeronautical cameras by the US Navy in WWII

Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR