Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - "A Little Daisy," Katahdin Iron Works, 1890

"… & found time to attend school, also washed & done up the family clothing. Her younger brother often came to my chamber to see me draw & paint the…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 362-451

"… he and his new wife, Clara Cary, bought to set up housekeeping after their marriage in 1850. He also described the house, his gardens, the birth of…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's cart, Hampden, ca. 1833

"… cart with stake rings side boards Snibells to lip up and all the acoutrements for both a tight body and a sloven hay racks were knot known then but…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Barnyard gate design, Bangor, 1867

"… be used with the best advantage on the north and up of the west side of the yard then follow around the rest of the yard." View additional…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Elmer Ellsworth Martin, Bangor, 1865

"… the top of the shed about 8 feet his element is to be up in the air." View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Thomas White Dry Good Emporium, Bangor, 1864

"He reportedly signed up 110 men in two days for the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery, in which he became a captain."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin cone cedar tree, Bangor, 1866

"… he had the 15-year-old, 12-foot-tall tree dug up and planted it in his yard. He saved it from a gale, but later a cow came into his yard and…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Hannibal Hamlin, Bangor, 1866

"… after enduring 4 years war in which we gave up three hundred thousand young good and true men to their distant & mournfull graves, and three…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Gorham L. Boynton, Bangor, ca. 1867

"… or republican and why or how he is so tangled up in the principles of reducing our enterprising yankees to a serfdom is more than any man can…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Division Street School, Bangor, 1865

"It was cleaned up and a new teacher installed. Martin wrote under the illustration, "South End and eastern side of Division Street school House…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 139-194

"… policy, his foray into cutting cord wood, picking up lumber and other material along the Penobscot River, a clam voyage to Cape Jellerson, saving a…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Illustrations

"… the first street railroad, the first gunboat up the Penobscot, his children, himself, his house and gardens, chairs he built, fashions of various…"

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

"… feet tall when inflated. When the balloon went up, he wrote, "the sight was so sudden and so grand that hardly a person could express even their…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 2 of 2

"… something of the apothecary trade, he ended up spending his time in another Sanger interest, the Hampden House, an inn and bar, for which young…"

Lincoln, Maine - Osgood's Store

"The “Cove” room carried daytime and evening dresses, coats, jackets, robes, and hats. Osgood’s did 90 percent of their buying at the Boston and New…"

Lincoln, Maine - Solomon's Store

"… that Solomon’s Store sold clothes of all sorts: dresses, socks, pants, shorts, and the best “knickers” everyone thought."

Historic Hallowell - Industrial Recources

"… Adze was a shipright's tool used for shaping and dressing wood while the Auger was used for drilling holes."

Historic Hallowell - Sweat on the Kennebec ~ Hallowell Steam and Boom Company

"The river is calm and workers are dressed in pants and long sleeved shirts. Hallowell was the location of the great sorting boom for down-river mills."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Dancing Fraternity, City of Bangor, 1868

"The group was to have up to 44 male members, who each could have two women who might accompany them to the weekly dances and weekly dance lessons."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal

"… Part 6, pages 362-451 Purchases for setting up housekeeping, work for Pendleton & Ross, various business uncertainties, renovations of house…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - About This Project

"… brother-in-law, Isaac Stevens, eventually ending up with his granddaughter, Cora M. Stevens Parkhurst (1908-1996)."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"… scanty means.” For Mass, Wabanaki women usually dressed in their finest. As one local stated, alongside the island girls, an Indian woman going to…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Temperance Membership

"… or collars over their simple silk "everyday" dresses. X Daughters of Temperance, ca. 1850 Kellogg & Comstock, NY Handcolored lithograph…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"… who worked at the laundry, deciding to dress up in some of the fancy dresses they were supposed to be washing, and having their picture taken by…"