Maine Memory Network

Music in Maine - Music Makers

"One banner promoted the Cabinet Makers, Chair Makers, Organ Builders, Piano Forte Makers, Turners, and Plane Makers."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Temperance Membership

"… Association, Pump and Block Makers, Mast and Spar Makers, Rope Makers, Riggers and Sail Makers, 1841 William Capen, Jr. (ca."

Historic Hallowell - Solid Foundations - Hallowell Granite

"… quarrying granite soon followed as a money-maker. Maternity, Hallowell Granite Works, ca."

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

"A label inside the McGilvery’s drum notes the maker, Frederick Lane, suggesting it might pre-date the Civil War."

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas S. Libby

"Thomas S. Libby was a wheelwright and carriage maker in the town of Lincoln, Maine. He was a wheelwright and carriage maker from 1841 to 1861."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - People

"… Canal Daniel Stewart 1786-1827: Joiner, cabinet maker, and furniture maker Educators, Authors, and Historians Edward Abbott 1841–1908: American…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

"Tuttle and boot and show maker G. L. Jewett and the two and a half story establishment of E. B. Dunton, a millinery and fancy goods dealer."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1800-1830 - Page 2 of 2

"… sleeves of a detailed, very fine quality dress-maker made woven striped pink (now faded) silk dress with a spencer-like (jacket) bodice, an apron…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Industry Expands - 1850 to 1857

"Hoop makers were needed to produce hoops to be sewn to the sails so they would easily slide up and down masts."

Music in Maine - Community and School Marching Bands

"… age fourteen, where he worked as a guide, basket maker, moccasin maker, musician, and carver. He worked and lived on Sugar Island, harvesting fire…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Declines - 1857 to 1861

"Blacksmith shops, ships’ chandlers, block makers and sawmills lined the south side of Water Street, while the north side was lined with houses of…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Winter Fun

"… cream when they had enough snow for the ice cream makers. Russell (son at left) and Judson Smith were making ice cream, circa 1942."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Joseph Mitchell and Mutual Store wagon, Bangor, 1865

"… Martin described Joseph Mitchell as "a cabinet maker & joiner who had worked for Shaw & Merrill & then was at work for F Muzzy & co on patterns in…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"On that same steamer, a Wabanaki canoe maker was carrying a fleet of bark canoes that he would rent to Bar Harbor's burgeoning tourist population."

Norway Historical Society

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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 1 of 3

"… of a print of Abraham Lincoln by an unknown maker may date from his reelection campaign in the fall of 1864 or from his assassination in April…"

Early Maine Photography - Portland Photographers

"… Fox, a dapperly dressed young Portland barrel maker. In 1850 Ormsbee sold his business to his longtime assistant George M."

Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 1 of 2

"… member or descendant, written documentation, maker labels, place of origin; or be established by other means."

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

"Thompson Millwright A. Morse Cabinet Maker W. Sylvester Carriage Maker A.L. Watson “ “ H. Clark Tanner & Currier Z.F."

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

"… of Thomas Johnson, an experienced butter maker. F.F. Caswell was the general manager. Later Carl Walker became plant manager."

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 1 of 3

"… on a large scale was Guilford Lumber Company, makers of box shooks (the sides of wooden boxes, popular in the days before corrugated boxes), doors…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"The fur trader and map maker David Thompson (1770-1857), famous today for his trans-continental journeys and voyage down the Columbia River to the…"

Music in Maine - MAKE

"MAKE Music makers include musicians, artists, and craftspeople who make instruments, write songs, and make music in the home and community settings."

Music in Maine - Longfellow Family Music

"Jacques Bellissent, flute maker to the Paris Conservatory made this flute. Longfellow purchased it during his 1825 trip to Europe."