Maine Memory Network

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

"Even as late as 1950 some farmers loaded barrels by hand. This picture on the right was taken on the Laurence Park farm in 1950."

Early Maine Photography - Occupational

"… saws, masons with bricks in hand, and a glazier holding a window (pictured at right). The furnishings of homes and buildings were crafted by…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 12 of 13

"The grapples on the right will hold onto the barrel better than the grapple on the left. This type of grapple is more often used in potato storage…"

Early Maine Photography - Family Groups

"… son are tempered by the affectionate holding of hands by father and son and the boy’s Napoleonic pose of his other hand in his coat."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 3 of 4

"… and skirt front with an asymmetrically draped swag. Tapes used to hold bustles in shape survive inside both of the described brown dresses."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 4 of 7

"… Proprietors consisted of numerous men and women holding fractions of a share. Although female heirs voted and affixed their signatures to decisions…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"… hands, and slam the bolts deep into the wood to hold the braces in place. One of the other tools they used were axes which came in all kinds of…"

Fifth Maine Regiment Museum

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

"Legal lobsters are transferred to a holding tank on the boat, and those lobsters above or below the designated legal size or those carrying eggs or a…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"Cummings holdings in Newport was added for further diversity, and the entire collaboration was incorporated as Guilford Woolen Mills, Inc."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… and Baptist preachers came occasionally to hold services and to perform marriages, baptisms and funerals."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"They served as the holding place of the ice before they went to other states or even other countries."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"They served as the holding place of the ice before they went to other states or even other countries."

Lincoln, Maine - Railroads

"Spikes are the things that hold the railroad track together. The train fell off the tracks in my yard once when I was little, and it rolled over."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"Tradition holds that Aaron Severy, who felled the first tree in the area, learned that he had a new neighbor only by hearing the sound of an axe on a…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Pejepscot Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… now the largest summer hotel in America, could hold 600 guests, served 750 at meals and drew as many as 3,000 to its twice-a-week dances."

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"A mechanized base holds two bulbs which automatically pivots 180 degrees should one burn out, simultaneously telemetering a status signal to Coast…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Maine State documents and Proclamations

"… prevent further squatting, that the state should hold a title to the property..." That’s the clearest statement we’ve seen regarding the state’s…"

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"But optimism soon took hold again as Hardwood Products Company was named Exporter of the Year, new looms were installed at Interface, Pride’s grew…"

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

"The Civic Center holds 6,206 permanent seats and up to 9,500 people for concerts. The arena, as of 2024, is named the Cross Insurance Arena."

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

"… laying the herring on “flakes,” wire frames to hold them while cooking for a short time. Sardine factory, Lubec, 1910Lubec Historical Society…"

Otisfield Historical Society

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