Maine Memory Network

Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 1 of 2

"… April 30, 1785, the Falmouth Gazette and Weekly Advertiser, a Maine newspaper founded for the purpose of advocating separation, published a full…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1910-1920 - Page 2 of 2

"Versions of garments such as those advertised in the New York store Gimbles' 1915 catalogue, straight tailored skirts, and similarly skirted dresses…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1920-1930 - Page 1 of 3

"… suits, with slightly dropped waists advertised by stores such as New York’s Altmans would also have been available throughout Maine, but are not…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood

"He invented an advertising match box, which he likely didn’t mass produce. He built and patented a boring machine, which was used in the wood turning…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Land Dealings

"Among Knox’s correspondence is an advertisement that illustrates the ongoing discussions: “August 27, 1798."

Life on a Tidal River - The War Effort

"… be thrown away were saved and there were many advertisements used to get people to save and ration."

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Memorial Library

"Rand Advertising LLC. Web. 6 Apr. 2010. <http://www.lincolnmaine.us/new_history/history_downtown.html>."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"The next day the Advertiser reported: The firemen paraded yesterday as previously announced. The apparatus of the department appeared to be in good…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - Overview: Road to Statehood

"The Falmouth Gazette and Weekly Advertiser The Falmouth Gazette—the District of Maine's first newspaper—was founded by fervent separationists and…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"… Hotel served as the basis for a lithograph advertising the opening of Portland’s grandest nineteenth century hotel. Hannaford Bros."

Music in Maine - Military Marching Bands

"… they published a notice in the Portland Evening Advertiser of their intent to form Chandler’s Band."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block

"On the other side of the building, above a current parking lot, there is also an advertisement for a cheese company. Masonic Parade, Bath, ca."

Lincoln, Maine - Newspapers

"They probably wouldn’t get the business they did when they could advertise in the local newspaper. The newspaper was a way people could also share…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Music in Maine - Rock and Roll, Punk, and Elvis

"… by Mike Laskey, The Same Band produced humorous advertisements and press releases for concerts and records, with slogans like, “Like it or Not…"

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… of the great unknown...all this duly and daily advertised, not only brought fish to the net of Ezekiel Goodale’s “Sign of the Bible,” but brought…"

Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"Clark (Department Store) at 25 cents each.” So advertised the Lubec Herald newspaper in its June 21, 1911 issue, the 100th birthday of the Town of…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"… and endurance under water.” Bath Opera House advertisement for May 14, 1934Patten Free Library One of the most popular events was showing…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block

"… was elaborately printed in gilded letters that advertised his good taste, location, and practical skills."

Lincoln, Maine - Methodist Church

"1984. Print. "Methodist Church." Welcome to Lincoln, Maine. Ed. Lee Rand. Rand Advertising LLC. Web. 1 Apr. 2010. <http://www.lincolnmaine.us/>."

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln House Hotel

"Rand Advertising. Web. 13 Apr. 2010. http://www.lincolnmaine.us/new_history/history_lincolnhouse.html"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"… years she was the literary editor of the Daily Advertiser. After 1881 she and her husband lived in Tuckahoe, New York."

Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"… Society The new reincarnation of the theater advertised “air cooled” and “ample parking” along with the open fireplace."

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

"… Three days later on August 16 The Calais Advertiser published a four-page special section about the dedication and opening of the Franklin D."