Maine Memory Network

The Eyrie, Seal Harbor, ca. 1938

Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1938 Location: Mount Desert Island Media: Linen texture postcard

Camp Edgewood on Sebasco Estates, Phippsburg, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Phippsburg Media: Glass Plate Negative

Cape Cottage Park, Cape Elizabeth, ca. 1925

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1924–1926 Location: Cape Elizabeth Client: Cape Cottage Park Company Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Contemplated building for J.B. Brown & Sons, Portland, ca. 1914

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1914 Location: Portland Client: J.B. Brown & Sons Architect: John P. Thomas

Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

Summer Folk: The Postcard View

Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Architect James Overlock

"… became a public street when portions of the Knox estate were sold to private developers. James Overlock (1813-1906) came to Thomaston from…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"… it became a private home, presently owned by the Estate of Marshall Stevens. The cover of Songs from the Woods of Maine, by Julia H."

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

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

Peter Spanos fled the genocide in Turkey to Maine
by anonymous

Peter Spanos fled the Greek genocide in Smyrna in 1922, coming to Maine to work as a fruit peddler