Maine Memory Network

Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"Children often prompted photographers to be less formal and more creative in composing studio portraits."

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 1 of 2

"… portrait of Lucretia Day Sewall and five of her children is a striking image, in which the sitters look directly at the viewer, engaging us through…"

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Longfellow Era: 1807-1901

"… and damp air, and the rigors of bearing eight children left her in precarious health. Stephen Longfellow (1776-1849) Stephen Longfellow was born in…"

Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy

"… arrived in Bangor, Maine where they opened a school that later became Saint John School. In 1873, Bishop David Bacon invited them to Portland to…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"Cohen School) and Bangor High School. She knew she wanted to be a writer and editor at a very young age."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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

"His family was very poor and his father died when he was young. Shep became a merchant early on in life because all of the children in his family…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"What was schooling like? I went to school in Thomaston. We don’t have the teachers we had then that we do now."

McArthur Public Library

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Great Cranberry Island Historical Society

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"… lumberjacks brought families with them, but their children had few schools to attend. Bangor’s people also had only a small number of stores at…"

Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"… small transitional housing program for women and children in various states of need, geared towards living addition free."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Healthcare Center of Eastern and Central Maine - Page 1 of 2

"Eastern Maine General Hospital Children's WardEastern Maine Medical Center But many people had predicted that the hospital would eventually get more…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Church on the Hill

"… It was a happy and fun time of year that the children of Dixfield would look forward to and in which the whole community would participate."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Doughty School; and Priscilla Soucie, School Library Media Specialist, William S. Cohen School Howard House, Bangor, 1869Bangor Public Library…"

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Music in Maine - Community Music

"… the Howards located Kemp's wife and two young children and brought them to Leeds, Maine. In addition to farming, the Kemp family entertained…"

Colby College Special Collections

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