Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - King Farm, Presque Isle, ca. 1920

"The sprayer is hauled by two horses, which means that the pump was probably powered by the sprayer wheels.The potato plants appear to be in blossom…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - "Good the more communicated, the more abundant grows" : The Thursday Club

"It provided a means for the acquisition of knowledge, the training of power; and the working of a spirit of human solidarity, a comprehension of the…"

Early Maine Photography - Portland Photographers

"Howe and returned to Boston. Alice Jane Means, ca. 1850Maine Historical Society A Portland native, Howe made many daguerreotype portraits in…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 12 of 17

"B Company served as Home Guards meaning they were called into service for the protection of public property within the State."

Historic Clothing Collection - Mourning Clothing

"… expense of black clothing could be mitigated by means of economically dying existing cotton dresses, or remaking and dyeing an old one."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Founding of Acadia National Park

"… years and centuries to come an inspiration and a means of growth as essential to them ever and anon as are fresh air and sunshine to the…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Northern Threads: Two centuries of dress at Maine Historical Society - Page 2 of 3

"What do we mean by Costume? Fancy dress, ca. 1825Maine Historical Society Museum vocabulary frequently uses the term costume to describe…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Waterfront - Page 2 of 2

"… in Chelsea or Hallowell had to find their own means of transportation. It cost five cents to go across on the ferry and five cents to return."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm In Hallowell

"See what I mean? Tree branches are snapping, and ice is overlapping. Oh and did you know the ’98 Ice Storm was a federal disaster? Really, I’m not…"

Maine Department of Transportation

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Man on the Street"

"… more exhalted office off division engineer, which means supervision of the designing and constructing of our sewerage system."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 2 of 4

"The name derives from the French word crin meaning horsehair. Of the era, a gold/blue striped silk dress features pagoda sleeves (wide at the wrist)…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Why Study the History of Drinking?

"… signs of their cultures and often the means to fortune. For women, the fight against alcohol abuse and other social ills in the later 19th and…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"… Society The railroads would not only offer a means of transporting potatoes and goods from the factories, but the passenger rail system would…"

Historic Hallowell - Nature's Bounty - Raw Material, Close at Hand

"… and steam winches large pieces were extracted by means of "rising wedges," levers, block and tackle and wood bracing."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Shipyards

"… remained important to Hampden, an alternative means of transportation became available in 1897. That was the year the Bangor, Hampden & Winterport…"

Lincoln, Maine - World War I

"… because 168 people were sent to war, which means that families were torn apart. Also, businesses were affected because they lost lot’s of employees…"

Milbridge Historical Society

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Bonnie and Donnie Staples' house

"… "You went in to this little store, and I mean little. And on this side was some old post office boxes."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 3 of 4

"… slim silhouette called cuirasse (a French word meaning close fitting, like armor), of which the collection includes a very fine example."

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"They were one of the main means of transportation besides horse and buggy, railroads, and ferries. Steamboats were also used to carry items like…"

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Huntress

"So, that means that maybe I may have never been born or I might not have seen all of my friends and Lincoln would have never been a town."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"I mean now to give you a history of my discovering of the Island of Mount Desert in the year 1755 at which time the Indians were the only owners of…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Third Generation and Beyond

"… as needed to suit the occupants, giving true meaning to such Yankee sayings as “waste-not, want-not” or “eat it up, wear it out, make it do, or do…"