Maine Memory Network

Film of model airplane flying competition, Portland, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Media: filmstrip, 16mm

Charles and Evelyn Osgood, Houlton, ca. 1910

Courtesy of Henry Gartley, an individual partner Date: circa 1910 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Remembering Mellie Dunham: Snowshoe Maker and Fiddler

Alanson Mellen "Mellie" Dunham and his wife Emma "Gram" Dunham were well-known musicians throughout Maine and the nation in the early decades of the 20th century. Mellie Dunham also received fame as a snowshoe maker.

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.

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Carolyn Stone, Farmington State Normal School, 1898

"She taught for one year at the Model School after graduation. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Carolyn Stone

"She enjoyed the experience so much so that she accepted a position at the New Britain Model School in New Britain, Connecticut."