Maine Memory Network

Historic Clothing Collection - Lace and fringe trimmed walking dress, ca. 1865 - Page 1 of 4

"The bodice is trimmed with machine-made blue fringe, knotted at the header, and black machine-made lace at the neck, peplum waist (short, gathered…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"12 machine. Room also was required to house new super calenders. These went into production in 1948."

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

"… rayon full length georgette evening dress with machine lace detailing and featuring the same striking wide panel of machine lace inset at the…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 1 of 4

"… Memorial Library After the Civil War, sewing machines reached the professional dressmaking and home sewing market. They were expensive."

Historic Hallowell - Kennebec Wire Company

"Wire mills still exist today, but workers use high-tech machines to cut the wire and shrink it to a certain diameter."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 4 of 4

"10 Machine in 1964. No. 15 Paper Machine would come on line in August 1980. These added paper production capabilities were necessary to bolster all…"

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 2 of 2

"The Company operates a fully integrated pulp and paper facility with three tissue machines and two paper machines in Lincoln, Maine.”"

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century

"Ichabod Washburn, also of Massachusetts, developed wire to make sewing machine needles, and spring steel wire for hoop skirts and bustle supports."

Historic Clothing Collection - Organdy summer dress, ca. 1863 - Page 1 of 4

"While the seams on the skirt are machine stitched, the details on the bodice were worked by hand. The dress dates between 1860 and 1865, a…"

Historic Hallowell - Energy

"Some people might have even had ovens.. The machines in factories affected people a lot. Machines were replacing jobs that people had."

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"Webber, Sr., an individual partner The Boston Flint Paper Company, Whiting Mill, Machine Shop, and the Slate & Plaster Mill operated along the…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Artists and Inventors of Biddeford

"Shaw & Clark Sewing Machine, Biddeford, ca. 1865McArthur Public Library In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the in-migration of people from…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"Each machine made bags of various sizes. The Flat Bag Department made bags for flour, groceries, clothing, confectioneries, and bread in more than 35…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"The first paper machine went into production on December 21, 1901. By February, 1902, all four paper machines were in operation and producing about…"

Ste. Agathe Historical Society

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Historic Hallowell - The Fuller Foundry

"… believed that in all departments they should attempt excellence. It closed because there were new machines that took over to make the iron parts."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Iron Foundry

"… the Hallowell Cotton Mill with parts for the machines when they were broken. The Hallowell Cotton Mill had a blacksmith shop located on site with…"

Historic Hallowell - Ship Parts

"… by hand (until the invention of the sewing machine.) Anchors were commonly made of stone or iron and took up to a year to craft."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 2 of 5

"The “digger man” was the person who drove the machine that would dig up the potatoes. The potato truck had full and empty barrels on the back of it."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"The G-men were closing in on Brady and Shaffer fast. Machine guns were still pelting the street with bullets."

Salmon Brook Historical Society

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1900-1910 - Page 2 of 3

"One is a combination of crochet and machine lace medallions, and the second a darned filet-type cotton lace."

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Theater

"The company bought the machines to play movies in 1904, but they didn’t put them in until 1923. When they installed the machines in the new building…"

Music in Maine - HEAR

"HEAR The invention of recording machines opened up a world of choices for listening to music without leaving the home."