1. Fanny Hardy Eckstorm (with hat); circa 1900. Eckstorm (1865-1946); a Maine folklorist and writer; collected American Indian stories and legends and wrote about the Maine woods and woodsmen. One well-known work is “The Penobscot Man.”

Courtesy of the Maine historical society

This image and image 3 are among thousands of images spanning Maine history that can be found at Maine Memory Network (www.mainememory.net), Maine’s digital museum developed by the Maine Historical Society.

2. Cook Lew Cole and his family, Alice, Tena and Sadie Cole, worked in a lumber camp, circa 1920, in the Palmer area. Lumber camp cooks were generally male, but Gladys Morrison, the wife of the owner and manager of a lumber operation, remembers it was common for wives to join their husbands in the woods, and wives whose husbands were cooks generally helped with the cooking. Whether they were paid separate wages or their work was included in their husband’s wages is not clear. Courtesy of the Maine FolkLife Center, Orono

3. Nursing students pose on the lawn of Eastern Maine General Hospital in 1898 or 1899. In the back row are (from left) Roberta Logie, school Superintendent Ellen F. Paine, who began the hospital that is St. Joseph Hospital today, Dr. William C. Mason, Carrie W. Files and E. E. McMullen.

In the front row are (from left) Margaret Davis, student Files, and Mabel Hammons.

Courtesy of the Maine historical society

4. Women workers at the woolen mill in Old Town take a break from their jobs for a photograph in the 1920s. The mill was on North Main Street and Gilman Falls Avenue.

Courtesy of Harold Lacadie of Old Town