Maine Memory Network

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

"… made a plough and covered the moulboard with hoop iron taken from iron hooped barrels the two prongs which I made the handles of started from the…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 2 of 2

"1," covering 1888-1889, which was in fact the final piece chronologically of his writings in this collection."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… of Federal Street, an area now covered by Bath Iron Works (BIW), north of Russell Street. In the early 1780s, the second wharf in town was built at…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison is built - 1823 to 1824

"… at night, the two-foot openings covered with iron grates. A wooden roof with sliding doors was erected above the top of the cells, creating an open…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 1 of 2

"… his fist then struck her over the head with the iron pipe,". Mitchell’s trial drew massive crowds to the Cumberland County Courthouse and was front…"

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

"… Book is illustrated, often with watercolors, and covers a myriad of topics, often jumping from one to another: the circus, the Cornet Band…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - About This Project

"The scrapbook covers were replaced and necessary cleaning and repairs made to many pages, especially in the scrapbooks."

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

"It also filled the orchestra pit and covered the piano. The manager of the time at one point put a sign on the door giving the message that the…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… TicketSurry Historical Society Through the Iron Curtain For many members of the Surry Opera Company (SOC), as it was now known, the sounds of the…"

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"… Piscataquis Railroad and the Bangor and Katahdin Iron Works Railway. They hauled pulp and paper, petroleum, mill products, and chemicals."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… because of its unique chocolate brown color that covers the caramel it was originally before being painted white."

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… Apparently, nothing more elaborate than a cast iron pot was at the heart of this fantastic device."

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… individual stoves for heating their soldering iron. The report said “they are ‘the can makers,’ so called, who solder in the bottoms” of the cans…"

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

"… is so called after a certain style of old clothes iron which had a hollow base into which a heated triangular metal piece would fit that kept the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… must cross on piles – some 800 feet, and the old Iron Horse, with his freight of timber and piles, goes over it a distance of about 600 feet."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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