Maine Memory Network

Life on a Tidal River - Flood Exhibit Work

"Ron Bilancia's quarterly Maine Studies classes worked on this project. All students received instruction on how to handle artifacts and how to scan…"

Life on a Tidal River - Work on the Civil War Project

"Ron Bilancia's quarterly Maine Studies classes worked on this project. All students received instruction on how to handle artifacts and how to scan…"

Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"… how to get along with everyone, and was a first-class businessman as well as architect. Following George M."

Architecture & Landscape database - Elmer I. Thomas

"… of Technology, where he attended architecture classes in 1888 and 1889. His studies at MIT were followed by travel in England and Europe in 1890…"

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Privy

"… provide some insights into the nature of working class life in an urban household of mid-19th-century Portland."

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

"He took Henry’s German class, French, Italian, and other core courses like rhetoric and mathematics."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"… in three years, making the first graduating class of Islesboro High School that of 1908. Dark Harbor Schoolchildren, Isleboro, ca."

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"In the late 19th Century the leisure class made remote, rustic Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada fashionable."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - About Us

"… Islesboro Central School United States History class (fifteen total) were divided into five groups (one group for each exhibit topic) and assigned…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… more leisure time for the middle and upper classes, improved railway and steamship lines made Maine more accessible, and many families sought to…"

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

"… Light yearbook forecast a political career, the Class Prophecy portraying Myron as a judge who “evidently followed the profession of his heart.”…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"established in Lubec • First Lubec High School class graduates (1897) 1900s 1900 • Census results – 3,005 1902 • Lubec Water & Electric District…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Themed Image Galleries

"… costume and dress collection consists of middle class women's wear, primarily dresses. There are gaps in representation, but as the examples in the…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Mourning Clothing

"… Slide Show With the growth of the middle class, the custom of wearing black during periods of mourning became prevalent."

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

"Very few examples of work-a-day or everyday wear are represented, typically because such items were used, rather than saved for posterity."

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

"… better off, the middling, and upper middle-class population. As is the case at MHS, such collections always contain a significant proportion of…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Overview

"… closely with students during their Social Studies classes to complete this research. While reading through the various newspaper articles…"

Ste. Agathe Historical Society

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Gorham L. Boynton, Bangor, ca. 1867

"… lumber merchant, whom he described as "among a class of risky and reckless men." Martin, who wrote and illustrated five volumes of recollections…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Olof Nylander, 1864-1943

"Thank you to the Nylander Museum for showing our class your wonderful resources and allowing us to work with copies of your archives."

Life on a Tidal River - Cohen Students

"Ron Bilancia's quarterly Maine Studies classes worked on this project. All students received instruction on how to handle artifacts and how to scan…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 1 of 4

"… ABC’s, singing, penmanship, and writing, and art class. When she attended Ashland High School, her teachers taught history, geography, math, home…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Civil War

"Civil War Text by Mrs. Tribou's freshmen history class, GVHS Images from the Thomaston Historical Society Mrs."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Man on the Street"

"Moy was quite an important figure in the class of 1901, Deering High School, if we are to judge from his record."