Maine Memory Network

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Allies & Allegiance: Military comradery at the Centennial, 1920

"… to join the festivities, with an opportunity to demonstrate newly formed and established alliances."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato import protest, Presque Isle, 1982

"… Society Description In a peaceful demonstration of opposition to imported Canadian potatoes, a group of Aroostook County potato farmers…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Ada Martin gymnastic costume, Bangor, 1864

"… ever exhibited in this city" -- a gymnastics demonstration. John Martin (1823-1904), an accountant and shopkeeper, drew the illustration of his…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 1 of 13

"… Treasurer of the Caribou Historical Society, demonstrates the hand digger. X Until the early 1870’s potatoes were harvested by the farmer to…"

Telephone Museum

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Wabanaki Today

"X Eric Otter Bacon, Passamaquoddy, demonstrating basket making at the Abbe Museum, 2009. X"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 7 of 13

"This photograph of a drop-axle wagon clearly demonstrates how the axles are over the body, allowing the body to be close to the ground."

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

"… below the upper wharf” and his wastebook clearly demonstrates that Boston was his major market. Page from Knox's wastebook describing sales of…"

Life on a Tidal River - Doughty Students

"… Dani Fazio, from the Maine Historical Society, demonstrates how to correctly shoot three dimensional objects."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"

"… leaders like Clara Soule used public education to demonstrate that American democracy was, indeed, inclusive."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 4 of 5

"… aboriginal right to hunt, fish and plant in their homelands. These documents collectively demonstrate that Wabanaki people intended to remain."

John Martin: Expert Observer - First balloon ascension, Bangor, 1857

"… any science projected by man untill it was fully demonstrated that it was a failure or an impossibility..." In a "Scrap & Sketch Book" he began in…"

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

"… women, from two different walks of life, demonstrate the democratic, equalizing nature of modern fashion, as well as the extent of fashion media…"

Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ

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Fryeburg Historical Society

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Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 1 of 2

"The fundraising campaign for the expansion demonstrated Mercy’s enduring relationship to the greater Portland community, securing over $300,000 from…"

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

"… in the collection, Ruth True's afternoon suit demonstrates the influence. The navy gaberdine suit, albeit with a skirt showing signs of later…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Northern Threads: Two centuries of dress at Maine Historical Society - Page 1 of 3

"As Northern Threads demonstrates, Maine residents – urban and rural – were fully engaged in the choices of the style, pattern, fabric, and…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell History From a 7th Grade Perspective

"… each spent a day working with students to demonstrate how to make a web site and how to make their page interesting and appealing."

Guilford, Maine - PROJECT OVERVIEW - Page 1 of 2

"… have visited the Society frequently for scanning demonstrations, extensive history research and photography sessions."

Frye Island Historical Society

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Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"… Wilkinson began working for Coombs and quickly demonstrated an extraordinary talent for architectural rendering."

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"Wilkinson, who quickly demonstrated an extraordinary talent for architectural rendering. Five years later, Coombs invited Wilkinson to help form the…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Temperance Membership

"… Society This extraordinary painted banner demonstrates the cultural vibrancy of Oxford County in the decades before the Civil War."