Maine Memory Network

Historic Clothing Collection - Children's Wear

"… present includes a large quantity of 19th century baby and children’s white undergarments and clothing and select examples of everyday or more…"

Historic Hallowell - Johnny Stringer ~ A Character of Industry

"He made "big ones for ladies, and little ones for babies," and many a home in Hallowell still boasts of its "Johnny Stringer chair," which is…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's cart, Hampden, ca. 1833

"… tongue such as are in general use for boy and baby carriages now I made a perfect cart with stake rings side boards Snibells to lip up and all the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - A Man's Life in a Suitcase

"1920Mexico Historical Society His baby shoes, birth certificate, his mother's picture, and his high school athletic letter were found in the…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Salmon industry

"The first deliveries of salmon smolt (baby salmon) were brought by the ferry, Everett Libby. The picture on the right shows the delivery of the smolt."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 1 of 3

"It was also the era of the "baby boom" generation, and the youth culture that had its beginning in the 1950s and manifested itself in the 1960s as a…"

Lincoln, Maine - Carney's Store

"They also had a shoe store where they sold baby shoes all the way up to adult sizes. Just like Carney’s in the past, some of the stores of today are…"

Lincoln, Maine - Workman's Hospital

"… was because Margaret’s specialty was delivering babies. In 1953, Margaret B. Workman died. The hospital did not shut down, however."

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"… Abenakis, the way doctors and people delivered babies was very different from today. Giving birth meant young women going into the forest alone for…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"When the baby was just five weeks old, Stephen and Betsey Titcomb set out for their new home. They would have to travel 70 miles into the wilderness…"

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… and it reads: "Honoring Guilford Low, First Baby Boy Born in Guilford, ME." Inauguration of Air Mail Service to Guilford, 1938Guilford…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals

"… in that same year, specializing in delivering babies. The Stratton hospital had doctors that preformed surgeries on the kitchen table."

Music in Maine - Rock and Roll, Punk, and Elvis

"The huge baby boomer demographic served up social, political and cultural change in unprecedented scales."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"… shadows, while twilight fell around us so softly that one felt like a baby in its mother’s arms.” Continue to Guiding Services for Sport Hunters"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"They helped babies come into the world, and they laid the dead to rest. Women's lives were hard and they often died young."

Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March

""A puking baby could build better boats out of blocks!" one man on the expedition is quoted as saying."

Lincoln, Maine - Nathaniel Bodwell

"… a tree having apples, the apples are the tree’s babies. Works Cited Fellows, Dana. History of the Town of Lincoln."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… nurse for almost 10 years at North Shore Baby Hospital in Salem, Massachusetts and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston."

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… to the first child born in the settlement, a baby girl which she names Esther. Then in December Mrs. Robert Low Jr."

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"… gave him those middle names in exchange for a baby lamb from their neighbor, Mr. Winslow. Willard moved to Presque Isle at the age of 16 and went…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… Betsey, her brother, a small son and a newborn baby, whose birth had delayed their departure. They were stopped in Readfield by a tremendous…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… birthing house, where women came to deliver their babies. The Merrill Monument at the cemetery honors William and Louville Merrill; both men served…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… saw it's schools bursting at the seams when the "baby-boomers" reached school age. It was soon apparent that a bigger high school was needed, and…"