Maine Memory Network

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"… perspective drawings differ from the sets of working drawings prepared for construction purposes that included elevations, floor plans, framing…"

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

"Henry Knox: Brick Works Brick from Montpelier, Thomaston, 1794The General Henry Knox Museum The Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of…"

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

"Henry Knox: Lime Works Limestone quarry, Thomaston, ca. 1880 One hundred years after Henry Knox's involvement, lime quarrying was still an…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Collections

"Database Collections Below is a listing of collections currently represented in the Maine Architecture & Landscape Design Database, organized by…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"Lost Gardens of Eden “Paradise Lost, Paradise Found: the landscape of Mount Desert Island” by Patrick Chassé."

Architecture & Landscape database - Plans for the Dwelling House Jos. Briggs, Winthrop, 1884

"Plans for the Dwelling House Jos. Briggs, Winthrop, 1884 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Architecture commission for…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Tower shopping complex, Bangor, ca. 1975

"Tower shopping complex, Bangor, ca. 1975 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Architecture commission for Development…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Study for the LDM Sweat Memorial Art Museum, Portland, ca. 1911

"Study for the LDM Sweat Memorial Art Museum, Portland, ca. 1911 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Architecture…"

Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"When I started working in ’47 the work was steady. All the factories were busy. J: How did you know when they had fish to pack? S: Well, they would…"

Lubec, Maine - Exhibits

"Students are actively working on projects that will be incorporated into this site. The Gardner Lake Tragedy"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4

"Natalie Havens, who used to work at McCurdy’s, made an important point in 2001: Each person working in the Shed did everything: skinning, gutting…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"Women’s work and children’s work in the canneries remained much the same in the period; it was the men’s that changed."

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… Lubec, 1962 Lubec Historical Society Final work on international bridge, Lubec, 1962 Lubec Historical Society Finish work on the bridge…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"They worked right along with them. It was no different for the owners who were generally their own managers."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"There is continuity of forms of architecture, work space, tool and process. Transmission of knowledge and understanding takes place by seeing…"

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… the water, chemicals, and electricity had time to work their magic.” Apparently, nothing more elaborate than a cast iron pot was at the heart of…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"The work was there for whoever needed it. We women used to have a good time. It was hard work but we all knew one another; we were like a family.”…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 4 of 4

"… McCurdy’s understand the process and the hard work involved. Also left behind was example of an “improved” item, a wheeled cart."

Lubec, Maine - The Blizzard of '34 - Page 1 of 2

"The New Deal’s Public Works Administration responded, and the governor ordered a State snowplow out to Lubec."

Lubec, Maine - A Signature Quilt

"… 19th Century together socially while engaging in work essential to their families’ well-being, even survival."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Our Resources

"… ME 04974, 548.2529 www.penobscotmarinemuseum.org Working Waterfront, news publication, Island Institute, PO Box 648, 386 Main Street, Rockland, ME…"

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"“Efforts were made to stop the hole in the Cumberland’s side so that she could go on the ways at high tide. The plans adopted, however, did not work…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"… Historical Society Through the hard work of “Miss Inez” as she was affectionately called, the high school came into existence in the fall of 1905…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… of local population was engaged in seasonal work, because families often had the time and desire to earn additional income during winter months…"