Maine Memory Network

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington Social Library, Regulations, ca. 1900

"Farmington Social Library, Regulations, ca. 1900 Contributed by Farmington Public Library Description A bookplate lists the regulations…"

Music in Maine - Drumsticks, 1861

"Regulation drumsticks were normally made from rosewood, and were 16 to 17 inches long. View additional information about this item on the Maine…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Shipbuilding in Biddeford: Lore, Leaders, and Legacy

"During the first Congress in 1789 “An Act to regulate the Collection of Duties Imposed by law on the tonnage of Ships or vessels, and on goods, wares…"

City of Portland Planning & Urban Development

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Maine's Road to Statehood - The Coasting Law of 1789

"… The "Act for Registering and Clearing Vessels, Regulating the Coasting Trade, and for Other Purposes" (often shortened to the "Coasting Law") of…"

Historic Hallowell - City Marshals

"The city demanded more regulations, requirements, or conditions to enforce the law. Luther F. Gray, City Marshall, Hallowell, 1931Hubbard Free…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid Twentieth Century

"… War year's make-do-and-mend fabric scarcity, or regulations restricting garment manufacture. There is, however, a good selection illustrating, to…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1930-1940 - Page 4 of 4

"This legislation regulated working age, minimum wage and work conditions. Coat label, ca. 1938 X"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 1 of 3

"… Board (WPB) issued order L-85 in March 1942 to regulate the amount of fabric used in garments. Prescribed economies prohibited details such as…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Influential & Interesting Documents

"951, vol. 14 Public drinking establishments were regulated in Maine as early as 1636 when tavern keepers were held accountable for allowing anyone to…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4

"… 1897Scarborough Historical Society & Museum As regulations became more stringent, the amount of clams was more limited."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"… imperative that state, interstate and federal regulations complement one another. The Maine Department of Marine Resources manages lobster fishing…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation

"That changed with no rules and regulations and a lot of poachers. Many people lived off the game for food."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Politics and Enforcement

"… farmers were quite willing to support laws to regulate drinking by immigrants and big city folks, they were against the regulation of cider, a…"

Skowhegan Community History - Skowhegan: "A Place To Watch"

"By the late 1960s, state and federal regulations virtually put an end to a century and a half of rough and tumble business."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1620 to 1820: New England's Great Secret

"Legal attempts at control included regulation of taverns and punishments for disruptive or destructive tipplers."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works

"The coopers must be so regulated, and supplied with heading, as to be kept constantly at work; and they must be pushed to have a stock of hogsheads…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"… many Maine lobstermen, and in 1874 the first laws regulating the minimum size of lobsters were enacted."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4

"… time the District has operated under the same regulations. The town got its water through a four- inch distribution line from Day Mountain Pond…"

Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 2 of 3

"School regulations dictated that “When not in uniform, nurses wear their caps to the dining room as well as to the classroom.” Another institutional…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Taverns, People, and Scenes

"… small ports of Maine, where taverns were closely regulated. This is not to say drunkenness and fistfights did not occur Downeast, but simply that…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"In 1990, once relaxed regulations allowed visitors to stay in private homes, the trip expanded to many more travelers including two Surry selectmen…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"… included, had space big enough to accommodate a regulation basketball court. Southwest High School (later Pemetic High) played in the old Masonic…"

Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals

"… home until it was shut down because of State fire regulations in 1990. Medical implements from the Lincoln Historical Society collection X…"