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Moving Image		Rolling back the frontier MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:26:45 In the 1600s, European settlers left everything they knew to take advantage of Maine’s abundant resources. Despite back-breaking work, a harsh climate, and cultural clashes, they successfully carved out a new life for themselves. But by the end of the century, most of them would leave Maine in fear and live for years as war refugees. (Relevance: 583) Find Similar Resources	Native Americans Settlements

Still Image		J. E. Smart's Logging Crew Maine Folklife Center, Still Image Photograph of a group of men. This is J. E. Smart's logging crew. Notice the dinner bucket open in front of them, the log mark on the log at left, and the tools held by some of the men. This type of photograph was commonly taken of lumbering crews, by photographers who would travel from camp to camp, take the pictures, then come back the next week to sell prints to the men. (Relevance: 575) Find Similar Resources	Lumbering Lumbering Lumbermen

Still Image		Bunkhouse of Lumber Camp Fogler Special Collections, Still Image Photograph of the bunkhouse of a lumber camp. Rack over stove for drying mittens and socks. Two men on the deacon seat in front of the double-deck, muzzle-loading bunks. (Relevance: 568) Find Similar Resources	Lumber camps Lumbering Lumbering Quality of work life

Moving Image		Bioinvasion MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 00:58:03 As human activity silently globalizes our world, our modern day ecology is under onslaught from spreading alien organisms. These plants and animals are capable of moving aggressively into a habitat and monopolizing resources to the detriment of other species. Can scientists help us win the war against this bio-invasion? (Relevance: 518) Find Similar Resources	Invasive species Ecology

Artifact		Native American grooved axe head Maine Historical Society, Artifact In the museum collection, this stone tool is called a tomahawk. It is an archaic period grooved axe which may be as old as 4,000 years. Native people probably used stone tools like this axe to fell trees and chop frozen meat. Not all stone axes had grooves and we don't know what the groove was really for. However, we can guess that the groove was carved out so that a handle could be more easily hafted (attached to a wooden handle). (Relevance: 497) Find Similar Resources	Abenaki Indians -- Maine Axes Indian weapons of North America Indians of North America -- Implements Indians of North America -- Maine -- Newcastle

Moving Image		People of the dawn MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:26:37 The first and longest lasting period of Maine’s history is the world of the Native American, stretching from the retreat of the last Ice Age, 12,000 years to the present. People of the Dawn tells the story of the dynamic people who’ve inhabited the landscape of Maine. (Relevance: 480) Find Similar Resources	Native Americans Canoes and canoeing Maliseet Tribe Micmac Tribe Penobscot Tribe Passamaquoddy Tribe Wabanaki Tribe

Text		Letter from Benjamin Mathes, Jr. to Samuel S. Lewis, Apr. 12, 1836 Maine Historical Society, Text Letter from Benjamin Mathes, Jr. to Samuel S. Lewis of Boston, April 12, 1836 about two cargos of lumber. (Relevance: 478) Find Similar Resources	Boston and Eastern Mill and Land Company Letters Lewis, Samuel S. Lewis, Samuel S. -- Correspondence Lumber trade -- Maine Manuscripts Mathes, Benjamin Mathes, Benjamin -- Correspondence Shipping -- Maine West River Mill & Lumber Company

Text		Webb family reminiscences about Samuel Webb, 1696-1785 Maine Historical Society, Text Historical reminiscences by Seth Webb about Samuel Webb of Redrift, England, a captain of a slave ship who was poisoned by African natives and whose son, Samuel, made his escape back to England and then ran away to America, was captured by pirates, and eventually moved to the Maine frontier during King George's War. (Relevance: 477) Find Similar Resources	Slave ships Slavery -- Africa Slavery -- England Webb family Webb, Margaret Webb, Samuel Webb, Samuel, 1696-1785 Webb, Seth -- Personal narratives Webb, Susanna Yucatan (Ship) Yucatan (Slaver)

Moving Image		David Moses Bridges: Passamaquoddy Birchbark Artist UMaine Wabanaki Studies, Moving Image, 00:07:54 Passamaquoddy Birchbark David Moses Bridges is an award-winning artist, who has received national attention for his work, which ranges from full-size birchbark canoes to traditional containers. The footage shows him in his workshop making containers and showing how the raw materials are prepared, stitched together and etched. A later film shot focuses on harvesting spruce root, which is used to sew the bark. (Relevance: 465) Find Similar Resources	Native Americans Wabanaki Tribe Passamaquoddy Tribe Birch bark Basket making Baskets – Maine Spruce baskets Indian baskets -- North America

Moving Image		The Penobscot Expedition and the Revolution MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:26:45 The Penobscot disaster is usually regarded as the worst American Naval disaster with the exception of Pearl Harbor. An accidental archeological discovery in the Penobscot River sheds new light on the desperate last moments of the worst defeat of the American Revolution. (Relevance: 442) Find Similar Resources	Penobscot Expedition, 1779 History - Revolutionary War United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783

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