Search Results

Keywords: Four Master

Historical Items

View All Showing 2 of 15 Showing 3 of 15

Item 25017

Vista of a Four Master, Mount Desert Island, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1940 Media: Postcard

Item 104906

John M. Tibbetts business card, Westport Island, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: circa 1895 Location: Westport Island; Bath; Exeter; Boothbay Media: Ink on paper

Item 27834

Schooner Henry J. Smith, Thomaston, 1890

Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

View All Showing 2 of 25 Showing 3 of 25

Exhibit

Guarding Maine Rail Lines

Black soldiers served in Maine during World War II, assigned in small numbers throughout the state to guard Grand Trunk rail lines from a possible German attack. The soldiers, who lived in railroad cars near their posts often interacted with local residents.

Exhibit

Promoting Rockland Through a Stereopticon, 1875

Frank Crockett and photographer J.P. Armbrust took stereo views of Rockland's downtown, industry, and notable homes in the 1870s as a way to promote tourism to the town.

Exhibit

Harry Lyon: An Old Sea Dog Takes to the Air

Through a chance meeting, Harry Lyon of Paris Hill became the navigator on the 1928 flight of the Southern Cross, the first trans-Pacific flight. His skill as a navigator, despite his lack of experience, was a key factor on the flight's success.

Site Pages

View All Showing 2 of 13 Showing 3 of 13

Site Page

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"Mary Snow had a masters degree in philosophy. Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, values…"

Site Page

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 1 of 3

"Men and women have corresponding titles of address in each of the first four degrees: Faith - laborer and maid; Hope -- cultivator and shepherdess…"

Site Page

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The End of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950

"… expectancies, being driven hard and fast by their masters. Profits were usually large enough that they paid for themselves before they were no…"

My Maine Stories

View All Showing 2 of 4 Showing 3 of 4

Story

A Note from a Maine-American
by William Dow Turner

With 7 generations before statehood, and 5 generations since, Maine DNA carries on.

Story

Reverend Thomas Smith of First Parish Portland
by Kristina Minister, Ph.D.

Pastor, Physician, Real Estate Speculator, and Agent for Wabanaki Genocide

Story

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars