Maine Memory Network

Music in Maine - Military Marching Bands

"Fifes are a small woodwind instrument commonly used in military bands because the high pitch sound carries over long distances, even during battles."

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

"In many ways, WWI introduced the United States as a world power, and military demonstrations solidified its new role."

Tate House Museum

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Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"Besides those in the military service, many were working in the shipyards in South Portland, Bath and Connecticut."

Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"… just returned from three years of service in the military. Playhouse Program, Surry, 1929Surry Historical Society The new reincarnation of…"

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

"… collection into three categories: garments, military uniforms, and accessories. The garment portion, about 3,000 pieces, encompasses clothing for…"

Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"Soldiers serving in the military in crowded encampments were also hard hit. Of the 1,032 Mainers who died during the war, over half died of the flu."

Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 1 of 2

"In 2018, support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America grant program facilitated item-level cataloguing…"

Early Maine Photography - The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection

"… War led him to examine these images and purchase military examples when he could find them. Soon his criteria expanded to include portrait…"

Early Maine Photography - War - Page 2 of 2

"Jones (at right) strikes a military pose and looks determinedly into the camera of a photographer whose painted backdrop depicts an army camp scene."

Surry by the Bay - Surry Today

"… diverse citizenry, many of whom are involved in service organizations such as the Surry Community Improvement Association, the Surry Garden Club…"

Early Maine Photography - War - Page 1 of 2

"… Waldoboro’s German Cemetery during an elaborate military funeral attended by more than four thousand people. Rev."

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 2 of 2

"… on Pearl Harbor in 1941 propelled Mattie into military service on August 6, 1942 at the age of 39 and she was commissioned as WAAF 3d officer on…"

Early Maine Photography - MHS Early Maine Photography Collections

"… support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Maine Historical Society inventoried, rehoused and digitized its daguerreotypes…"

Early Maine Photography - Early Maine Photography at Maine Historical Society

"This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services MA-30-16-0356-16."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About MCHP

"… that allow site visitors to create and share their own albums; and much more. The MCHP is supported by the Institute of Museum & Library Services."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About Us - Page 2 of 3

"… Jamie Kingman Rice and photographer and Image Services Coordinator Dani Fazio. Other contributors include Cheryl McLeery, the Director of the…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"… collections of hymns, and the author of a vesper service. After the death of his brother Henry in 1882, Samuel retired from the ministry and moved…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 4 of 4

"… elderly people every morning as a community service. People called Ella to contact the doctor if he and his assistant were busy with patients."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Student Research

"… hundreds of men who served in the United States military and even a few who served in the Confederate Army, we realized that the Civil War had a…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Organizational Uniforms

"… Slide Show A somewhat large collection of Armed Services uniforms within the Maine Historical Society collection are complimented by special…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Organizational Uniforms

"… Slide Show A somewhat large collection of Armed Services uniforms within the Maine Historical Society collection are complimented by special…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About Us - Page 1 of 3

"… X Ben Godsoe, a Muskie School for Public Service graduate student, has helped develop the Sandy River Land Trust and High Peaks Alliance and a…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 3 of 3

"… the Lakes chapel is still there and holds regular services during the summer. Next door, the Outdoor Sporting Heritage Museum enshrines the…"