Maine Memory Network

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"Randlett. The ice cream shop still remains, now known as the Dark Harbor Shop. Dark Harbor Post Office, Islesboro, ca."

Historic Clothing Collection - Lace and fringe trimmed walking dress, ca. 1865 - Page 1 of 4

"The bodice is trimmed with machine-made blue fringe, knotted at the header, and black machine-made lace at the neck, peplum waist (short, gathered…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"Webber, Sr., an individual partner The Boston Flint Paper Company, Whiting Mill, Machine Shop, and the Slate & Plaster Mill operated along the…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1930-1940 - Page 4 of 4

"… rayon full length georgette evening dress with machine lace detailing and featuring the same striking wide panel of machine lace inset at the…"

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 2 of 2

"The Company operates a fully integrated pulp and paper facility with three tissue machines and two paper machines in Lincoln, Maine.”"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 1 of 4

"… Memorial Library After the Civil War, sewing machines reached the professional dressmaking and home sewing market. They were expensive."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… rotary, planer, lath, clapboard, and two shingle machines. After being in business for a year, Gould replaced the saws and trimmers being used with…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century

"Ichabod Washburn, also of Massachusetts, developed wire to make sewing machine needles, and spring steel wire for hoop skirts and bustle supports."

Historic Clothing Collection - Organdy summer dress, ca. 1863 - Page 1 of 4

"While the seams on the skirt are machine stitched, the details on the bodice were worked by hand. The dress dates between 1860 and 1865, a…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Iron Foundry

"The Hallowell Cotton Mill had a blacksmith shop located on site with the Cotton Mill. Even though they had a blacksmith on site, they needed…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 2 of 5

"The “digger man” was the person who drove the machine that would dig up the potatoes. The potato truck had full and empty barrels on the back of it."

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Theater

"The company bought the machines to play movies in 1904, but they didn’t put them in until 1923. When they installed the machines in the new building…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 2 of 3

"… would go after school to play pool or the pinball machine. There was a drug store called Rexol. It served hot peanuts and ice cream."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1900-1910 - Page 2 of 3

"One is a combination of crochet and machine lace medallions, and the second a darned filet-type cotton lace."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 4 of 4

"… different production stations (welding, wood, machine, and paint shops) and exit on the other side of the building a finished fire truck ready for…"

Lincoln, Maine - Jonathan Clay Jr.

"and they have to use big machines with traffic coming in every direction. When you’re in war, you have to move around a lot and try not to get hurt…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1920-1930 - Page 3 of 3

"… dress entirely covered with red and green machine embroidery. Knee length party dresses include a royal blue solid beaded sleeveless chemise; a…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 2 of 4

"… colored heavy rayon taffeta dress featuring machine embroidered swirls embellishing the full skirt, which is designed to be worn with a supportive…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood

"He built and patented a boring machine, which was used in the wood turning industry. The last thing he patented was a spring-tooth rake."

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 1 of 3

"A new machine shop was added in 1993, a larger warehouse in 1995, and the company continues to expand as a well established presence in the medical…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Wood Products of Strong

"… Society Charles Forster of Boston developed a machine to mass-produce toothpicks. After experimenting with many species of wood he determined that…"

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"… wood from the local area and they used different machines that upgraded and changed over time. John MacGregor was born in the Highlands of Scotland…"

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

"… Mitchell and Braun," is pale blue with a heavy machine lace bodice, a belted waist, and long knit Crimplene skirt of narrow permanently heat set…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4

"… a need for more structures, trucks, a machine repair shop, employees and clam draggers. The factory was successful and ultimately employed…"