Maine Memory Network

Music in Maine - B-flat fife, ca. 1860

"B-flat fife, ca. 1860 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description This fife was used by John Robbins when he was a drummer in the…"

Music in Maine - Drumsticks, 1861

"Drumsticks, 1861 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Franklin C. Kimball (1844-1912) used these drumsticks while serving…"

Music in Maine - Drum, Portland, ca. 1854

"Drum, Portland, ca. 1854 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Noble and Cooley of East Granville, Massachusetts started…"

Music in Maine - Civil War drum, ca. 1861

"Civil War drum, ca. 1861 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Henry Green (1832-1901) of Portland carried this military…"

Music in Maine - Drum, Stockton Springs, ca. 1840

"Drum, Stockton Springs, ca. 1840 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Colonel Freeman McGilvery (1823-1864) of Stockton…"

Music in Maine - Kimball Drum, ca. 1860

"Kimball Drum, ca. 1860 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Written on the top of the head of this drum is, "Frank C."

NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters Historic Site

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Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"His father was an engineer, and his mother was an artist. Barrows graduated from Philips Exeter in 1929 and from Harvard in 1934."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"… events and parades to exemplify the cultural and artistic history and diversity of the area and eventually he took his act far beyond Mount Desert…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers

"… and visitors who were inclined toward nature and artistic or intellectual pursuits. Overall, their homes and hotels were less extravagant than…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 2 of 3

"My parents are now nail artists in Presque Isle. In Vietnam, they did other, more strange things that we don’t do here."

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 2 of 3

"… to early-nineteenth century portraits by artists such as Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Gainsborough and Henry Raeburn."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Of The Arts Era

"Many important artists performed on the stage of the Building of the Arts: for example, opera singer Emma Eames and her husband Emilio de Gogorza…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Drinking: Elegance and Debauchery

"Jenks, artist H.T. Harris, and various constables, citizens and sailors, near Portland's St. Paul's Church."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"They made beautiful baskets and did beautiful bead work.” ...next came the artists and rusticators."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - People

"… the world. Inventors, Designers, Musicians, and Artists Leonard Atwood 1852-1902: "Father of the Skyscraper;" inventor of the elevator (sold his…"

Belfast Historical Society

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Jonathan Fisher Memorial

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Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ

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Surry by the Bay - Surry Today

"A smattering of writers, artists, and musicians seek their muses in this idyllic setting. A few people strive to subsist off the land by growing…"

Westbrook Historical Society

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Early Maine Photography - Portland Photographers

"Hanscom, who signed himself as a "traveling artist" on a circa 1860 ambrotype of Adam Winslow and his grandson Adam."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Reform and Repeal

"… Joanne Cochrane Graves, a respected Kennebunkport artist, painted this fleshy tribute in honor of the repeal of Prohibition."

Kennebunkport Historical Society

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