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A Part of the Main
MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:26:01

As Europeans began to look seriously towards Maine as a desirable economic region, there were many debates about who owned or controlled the varied and plentiful natural resources, especially timber. In the mid-1800’s, the timber harvest from the communities in the far north woods traveled via the river communities to the prosperous coast where the wealth of natural resources set sail for the world beyond. Today, these distinct regions remain intact, each with a different story to tell about how history has played itself out since that time.

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Natural resources
Settlements
Lumbering
Shipping/Shipbuilding

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Interview with Earl Bonness
Maine Folklife Center, Sound

Selection from an interview with Earl Bonness about his experiences as a river driver on the Machias River, conducted by Edward D. Ives. In the selection, Bonness describes the death of his brother-in-law, who drowned during an attempt to pick, or free up, a pile of logs jammed in the river.

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Log driving
Lumbering
Lumbering
Lumbering accidents
Rivers

Still Image
Scaler Arguing with Crew
Maine Folklife Center, Still Image

Photograph of a scaler arguing with woods crew in front of pile of long logs. Scalers measured the logs in board feet, and the men's pay could depend on these measurements.

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Forests and forestry Mensuration
Log scaling
Lumbering
Lumbering
Forests/Forestry

Artifact
Iron Hatchet
Maine State Museum, Artifact

Axe found at Cape Splint, Addison in 1978 on or near the Look family property.

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Early Settlement Materials
Axes

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Weight and Particular Freight of the Ship Bazaar
Fogler Special Collections, Text

Estimated list of the Weight and Particular Freight of the ship Bazaar, owned and captained by a member of the Stuart family of Richmond, Maine. List was generated in Liverpool, and details cargo and those for whom it was being shipped.

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Bills of Lading
Shipping
Shipping/Shipbuilding
Ships Cargo

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Agricultural Society Returns
Maine State Archives, Text

In an effort to encourage agricultural improvements, the state gave money to the Agricultural Societies to give as awards for the best in various catagories. This return is from Kennebec County.

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Farming/Agriculture
Agriculture -- Kennebec County (Me.)

Moving Image
From Stump to Ship
Northeast Historic Film, Moving Image, 00:28:17

Depicts the year-round activities of the Machias Lumber Company on the Machias River in Washington County, Maine. Includes scenes of winter logging in the forest with hand tools and horses, as well as the spring log drive, with loggers using peaveys to break up log jams on icy rivers as the logs are moved from the forest to the mill. Lumber is also loaded onto schooners in Machias for transport to New York.

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Logging -- Maine -- History
Lumbering
Rivers

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Interview with Clayton Littlefield
Maine Folklife Center, Sound

Selection from an interview with Clayton Littlefield concerning the farming community of Frye Mountain in Waldo county. In the selection Littlefield describes shift in crops grown when the canning plant moved in, and how farm families provided their own food.

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Agriculture
Canning and preserving
Farming/Agriculture

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From Cape Cod to the Bay of Fundy: An Environmental Atlas to the Gulf of Maine
Science, Text

This atlas of New England's largest and richest aquatic region presents breathtaking full-color photographs to reveal and interpret environmental patterns and problems. The full-color satellite images, interwoven with commentary on the area's ecology, geology, and oceanography, provide an understanding of the link between our own backyards and the interdependent set of systems that make up one of the most distinctive regions on earth. (Philip Conkling, editor)

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environmental conditions, ecology, physical geography, remote sensing images
Oceanography

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Machias Cargo Book
Fogler Special Collections, Text

Page from Machias Cargo Book, a record of ships and their cargo cleared from Machias, Maine. Records destination and cargo. The cargos recorded mainly contain lumber.

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Shipping
Shipping/Shipbuilding
Ships Cargo

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