Maine Memory Network

Sarah Tibbetts hoping to visit husband in port, Westport Island, 1895

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

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Sarah Tibbetts to her husband disclosing a family theft, Westport Island, 1895

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

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Randall property, W. Side Island Avenue, Lot 17, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Annie Randall Use: Dwelling

73-81 Park Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Stuart O. Symonds Use: Dwelling - Two family

Felton residence, Southwest Harbor, 1991-1992

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1991–1992 Location: Southwest Harbor Client: Elise Felton, Architect: Landscape Design Associates

Mortuary Chapel, Gorham, ca. 1938

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1938 Location: Gorham Client: Sarah E. Giddings Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Sarah Sampson: Caring for Soldiers, Orphans

Sarah Sampson of Bath went to war with her husband, a captain in the 3rd Maine Regiment. With no formal training, she spent the next four and a half years providing nursing and other services to soldiers. Even after her husband became ill and returned to Maine, Sampson remained in the Washington, D.C., area aiding the sick and wounded.

Capturing Arts and Artists in the 1930s

Emmie Bailey Whitney of the Lewiston Journal Saturday Magazine and her husband, noted amateur photographer G. Herbert Whitney, captured in words and photographs the richness of Maine's arts scene during the Great Depression.

Presque Isle: The Star City - Beulah Akeley, Librarian, ca. 1940

"Later she and her husband George were caretakers at the Methodist church in Presque Isle. Beulah is mentioned in the March 1945 edition of the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"… their fathers, and widows inherited from their husbands both via their dower rights and additional bequests."

Surprise Preacher in Corinna
by Sarah Mount Elewononi

What the wife of Rev. Wright did when she found out she was expected to preach on short notice.

August 12, 1967 was the most significant day of my life
by Bob Small

How the Vietnam war affected my life