Maine Memory Network

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"… Weston Sewell's mother-of-pearl inlay opera glasses, Livermore Falls, ca. 1904Maine Historical Society Dusty rose opera cape ca."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"… four large greenhouses boasting 28,000 feet of glass, producing flowers, primarily carnations, for the state’s wholesale trade. Howard C."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… with velvet drapery, silk panels, and elaborate glass chandeliers. Upstairs there was a floating balcony with private boxes that could be reserved…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village

"… it had a bar and liquor was sold for 3 cents a glass. This area was bypassed when a new road was built and now the old road is closed to public…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… in the summer is as precious as the piece of sea glass or the lucky stone that stays in our pocket on that final ferry ride to the mainland at…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"… at the Bath Opera House with the stained glass, but the rest of the exterior was plain. Earlier ones were referred to as “Nickelodeons” because…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 1 of 5

"… and it was constructed of wood, brick, glass and metal. French & Elliott Company, Masonic Hall, Odd Fellows Hall, Guilford, 1916Guilford…"

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Huntress

"The school was 18x22 feet with 7x9 glass windows. Aaron also built many other buildings across the town of Lincoln."

Maine State Museum

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

"Townsend that the beautiful stained glass memorial windows were introduced. Since that time additional changes have occurred."

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"… Nahant, 1850 Maine Historical Society This rare glass stereo view shows a beardless Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) sitting on the porch of…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Taverns, People, and Scenes

"… (now Brown) Street, and a decanter of liquor and glasses were set on the coffin" Reverend Elijah Kellog (1813-1901), 1886 Stacey Tavern…"

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… in many small segments, its two ton heft of glass and iron framework was transported across the sea and up the tower."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"Charles A. Harriman, who owned a jewelry and glasses business had a sign of an eye hanging outside his store."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"… me go and redo all of them so I learned to cut glass. WIFE- we were only allowed to have a certain number of shoes. They would stamp each pair."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - A Call to Temperance

"… enemy that steals men's brains away, and the way glass rattled and the liquor flowed was a caution to rumsellers."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… iron arrowheads, knives, axe heads , clay pipes, glass beads, musket balls and gunflints have been found around Presque Isle, of both French and…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"They also bought glasses for people who needed them. As the years progressed, things changed at the fair."

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"… one of the area hotels at which he was served a glass of champagne. Another fan wrote this ode: A horse we loved of famed renown Has quietly, sadly…"

Otisfield Historical Society

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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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