Maine Memory Network

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"… elevation, this engaging presentation drawing is painted in watercolors with skillful shading and shadowing."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Primary and intermediate school, Bangor, 1865

"Martin, an accountant and shopkeeper, and his wife, Clara Cary Martin, had six children. Their daughter, Annie, he noted, graduated from the…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - "A Little Daisy," Katahdin Iron Works, 1890

"… brother often came to my chamber to see me draw & paint the Iron works & I soon found he had a natural tact for drawing." Martin was writing and…"

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

"The painting is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. As upset as he was with the "negative" changes in society and…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson

"He belonged to the Brush’un painting group with John Calvin Stevens. He was also active in Portland musical organizations."

Jonathan Fisher Memorial

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Bowdoin College Library

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Bowdoin College Museum of Art

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

John Martin: Expert Observer - Division Street School, Bangor, 1865

"… of the street in the rear of the Resivoir, House painted chrome yellow with yellow curtains The wood shed & out house fence Rough boards no paint…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Revenue gunboat "Mahoning," Bangor, 1864

"… was all plain and of the very best material and painted & varnished and clean as a penny." View additional information about this item on the…"

Brick Store Museum

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

John Martin: Expert Observer - Rustic furniture, Bangor, 1865

"… a few loafers and furthermore black ink or water paint does not represent their natural color." He wrote that it took him 6 days to create the arm…"

Friendship Museum

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Acadian Archives

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Wadsworth Era: 1786-1807

"John, 16, later went to Harvard College. Lucia, 13, and Harry, 12, attended school in Portland. The four youngest boys made up the rest of…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Eastern Maine Medical Center

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Maine's Road to Statehood - After the War: The First Victory for Separationists

"Brig Enterprise and the British Brig Boxer off of Monhegan Island. The separation movement stood at a standstill during the War of 1812, as…"

Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 1 of 2

"… are represented in daguerreotype copies of paintings of Joseph Leland of Saco and Ezekiel Day of Portland."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"Between 1860 and 1900, four shipyards closed, the mines failed, and the town's population dropped 25 percent. Perhaps F.B."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"Their educational thrust was to music, drawing, painting and needlework, but science, English, and math were included for the well-rounded young…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… popular, and students began to pay for painting, drawing and music lessons. Other than arts, important courses in the academy included English…"