Maine Memory Network

Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music

"… Spring Inn in her fifties, recorded Hopeless Woman with her sons Lenny Breau and Denny, Breau and sang often with Denny on stage."

Early Maine Photography - Studio Portraits

"1865Maine Historical Society Six examples of Samuel Carleton’s artistic daguerreotype portraits are found in the Vickery-Shettleworth Collection."

Early Maine Photography - Art

"Some Maine artists offered the option to have portraits painted based on photographic images. Others used photography to document their work and…"

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

"… aspect changed the whole point of view of the woman who came under its influence. Her ideals were elevated, her trust in eternal goodness and its…"

Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 1 of 2

"A circa 1830-50 folk art painting of a woman wearing a bonnet was copied on a tintype. More formal portraits are represented in daguerreotype copies…"

Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 2 of 2

"A tintype shows a formally posed young woman set against a classical railing and trees as if in the outdoors."

Early Maine Photography - Occupational

"The lady’s plain dress and her old rocking chair indicate a rural origin for this tintype. Tintype of woman knitting, ca."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - People

"… testified before Maine's state legislature for a woman's right to vote Janet Trafton Mills born 1947: Maine's 75th governor and first governor from…"

Early Maine Photography - Portland Photographers

"… and 1859 Rufus Adams made a portrait of a young woman, while A. M. McKenney took a picture of a young man in 1860."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Temperance Membership

"The Woman's Christian Temperance Union was founded in Cleveland in December of 1874. Sons of Temperance certificate for John Gunnelsen…"

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"They killed the woman and a child and Bomazeen ran to warn the others in the village. He was shot down in the river where it is still today called…"