Maine Memory Network

Portrait of Adam Winslow and his grandson Adam, ca. 1860

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1860 Location: Falmouth Media: Ambrotype

The Stoddard House, Farmington, ca. 1860

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1860 Location: Farmington Media: Ambrotype

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."

Maine Streets: The Postcard View

Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"… Maine (Orono: University of Maine Press, 2015), plate 21 Hoy, Benjamin. A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States border across…"

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"… feasts, which whoever is invited MUST bring one plate of wood or bark and then I give the benediction upon the meats."

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down