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John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrap & Sketch Book 2: 1864-1866

"… Historical Society and Maine State Museum In the book he labeled "Scrap & Sketch Book," John Martin veered from the format he used in his Journal…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"… Stevens’ work is documented in the 1990 book “John Calvin Stevens: Domestic Architecture, 1890 – 1940” by John Calvin Stevens II and Earle G…"

Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"When I started working in ’47 the work was steady. All the factories were busy. J: How did you know when they had fish to pack? S: Well, they would…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"All the books that they had were the Bible, Watts’ hymn book and the Almanac, which were resorted to on all occasions."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"They worked right along with them. It was no different for the owners who were generally their own managers."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Our Resources

"… Records Photographs Post Cards Reference Books Permanent and changing exhibits Islesboro Central School PO Box 118 159 Alumni Drive 734.2251…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"The library closed in 1965 and its books and furniture were donated to the Alice L. Pendleton Library."

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"… record of Leila’s passing, other than the Surry book of births, deaths and marriages held in the Town Hall vault."

Surry by the Bay - Sawmills of Cunningham Ridge

"Maine Register, State Year-book and Legislative Manual. No. 34 - June 1903 (copyright 1903) The City of Ellsworth Register, with Surry and Blue Hill…"

Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"Woodward, Colin. The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier. New York: Penguin Books, 2004. Print."

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

"Sanborn Map & Publishing Co. printed books of locations and shapes of each block in many urban communities from 1867 to 1907."

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

"… wrote that Avery long edited the many Guide books all up and down the Appalachian Trail, even into Georgia."

Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 2 of 2

"The book was not used as a source in this exhibit. Young researchers, Lubec 5th grade 2008-2009 Robert Wallace, Emma Page, Seth Doherty (Miriam's…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin self portrait, 1889

"The scrapbook focuses on his experiences working at Katahdin Iron Works, in a "wild land township" near Brownville, starting in 1888."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Plymouth Company (Kennebec Proprietors) records, ca. 1625-1824

"… bound or once bound volumes of records, cash books, letterbooks and grants; loose papers, correspondence, accounts, claims and other papers…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"… John Mitchell Deposition, Map & Field Book, 1764Maine Historical Society A critical challenge to create the border arose from how to…"

Surry by the Bay - About The Project

"Working together on this innovative project allowed us to utilize our skills and talents and to build on the collaboration put in place during our…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Ada Martin, Bangor, 1865

"… was dressed from ages 4 to 6 at left, reading a book. Martin wrote, "reading picture books and primmers and giving the names of a 150 pictures…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Slave whip, 1864

"… on page 54 in his 1864 "Scrap & Sketch Book" drew an illustration of two slave whips and a slave being whipped."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Revenue gunboat "Mahoning," Bangor, 1864

"… illustration on page 49 of a "Scrap and Sketch Book" he began writing in 1864. He wrote that it was the first gunboat in the Penobscot River."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Belles Early apple, Bangor, 1864

"… the first page of "John Martin's Scrap & Sketch Book, Commenced June 14th 1864," Martin drew this Belles Early apple and wrote, "ripens the last of…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Joseph Mitchell and Mutual Store wagon, Bangor, 1865

"… Mitchell as "a cabinet maker & joiner who had worked for Shaw & Merrill & then was at work for F Muzzy & co on patterns in their foundry a great…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Today

"… clamming, and blueberrying, while others work in both blue collar and white collar jobs in Ellsworth, Bangor and on Mount Desert Island."