Keywords: lifted
Item 14508
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad track repair, lifting track, ca. 1955
Contributed by: Oakfield Historical Society Date: 1956 Location: Littleton Media: Photographic print
Item 11212
Power lifting champions, Augusta, 1982
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1982-04-18 Location: Augusta Media: Photographic print
Item 82968
Bond property, Seaside Avenue, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Maud I. Bond Use: Summer Dwelling
Exhibit
The Taber farm wagon was an innovative design that was popular on New England farms. It made lifting potato barrels onto a wagon easier and made more efficient use of the horse's work. These images glimpse the life work of its inventor, Silas W. Taber of Houlton, and the place of his invention in the farming community
Exhibit
For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Balloon liftoff memorial, Presque Isle, 1981
"… at the site where the Double Eagle II balloon lifted off from Presque Isle on August 11, 1978 and landed in France."
Site Page
Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Landeen Family History
"They would tell the story of how he could lift a rail road axle and turn it all the way around by himself. Source material from Joyce Landeen"
Story
Lift the Boats for Everybody
by Andrea Cianchette Maker
The story of her immigrant great grandfather and her nonprofit organization Focus Maine.
Story
Seawolf Outhouse Robbery
by Roger Ek, Seawolf 25
How necessity creates invention, and the moving of an outhouse in Vietnam.
