Maine Memory Network

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Neal Dow

"… of Maine Historical Society Although this photograph was taken after the Rum Riot of 1855, the building had changed little after city government…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Project Partners

"They then wrote their essays and selected photographs for their student exhibits. For more information, contact teacher Ernest Easter, 207-896-5541."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Timeline of Events

"… Public Library Students adjust lighting before photographing an artifact from the Scarborough Historical Society collection."

Surry by the Bay - About The Project

"… a detailed, handwritten twentieth century census, photographs, scrapbooks, and town records. During the warmer months, this treasured building…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Acknowledgements

"… Memorial Library Bowdoin College Library, Special Collections Burden Collection Joyce Butler The Herbert Cary Family Charles and Joanne Cochrane…"

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - Researching Your Home

"The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is unusual – it is richly supported by extensive records gathered by family members and placed in museum and library…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - About Us

"… as how to handle artifacts properly and how to photograph objects without causing damage. X The student groups then researched their exhibit…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - About This Project

"… Maine State Museum, arranged to have the pages photographed and transcribed. Marge Dudley did the transcriptions."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Resources

"Other Resources Used Photographic Collections: Patten Free Library (PFL) and Bath Historical Society (BHS) PFL and BHS archived documents, ledgers…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… plants and other types of natural history collecting, as well as sharing findings from collecting excursions, remained popular among Victorian-era…"

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

"… on the first floor of a cannery, as shown in this photograph in the collections of the Maine Historical Society."

Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"Manuscripts and Miscellaneous Photographs, early postcards, and artifacts from the collections of the Blue Hill Historical Society, the Jonathan…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Meet Blue Hill's Project Team

"Students Photographing a 19th Century Sampler X The contributing partners to the construction of this website are grateful for the support and…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"… to preserve what history remained—donating family photograph collections, participating in oral history interviews, and volunteering their time and…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Architecture

"… treasures, however, is the collection of photographs of Swedish Colony homes taken in 1922 by Olaf Nylander."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Savage Family of Mount Desert

"… private collections of original correspondence, photographs, maps, written and oral histories, business records, and ephemera to develop our…"

Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"… great deal of research and made numerous trips to photograph features of the area.” With his oft-present measuring wheel Avery explored the route."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - About the Team

"… about 60 students learned how to handle, scan or photograph and document historical arifacts and memorabilia."

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"… blueprints, renderings, drawings, sketch books, photograph albums, scrapbooks, and specifications."

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"The next day, spectators and photographers flocked to the site of the wreck: 10,000 people were estimated to have viewed the wreckage, and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… film exist today and yet, many wonderful still photographs of the filming of Queen of The Sea survive in both public and private collections."

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… finding way to Western Quoddy Head annually, they photograph their families adjacent to the tower and the granite Easternmost Point marker."