Contributed by Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum
Description
The Patrons of Husbandry, also known as the Grange, was a significant social and political movement in the later 19th and first half of the 20th centuries.
The Grange supported temperance and passage of Prohibition. Through the efforts for the Grange, Rural Free Delivery and Parcel Post were created. The Grange support for equal rights for women in the organization as well as the right of women to vote.
This picture is of the officers of the Littleton Grange in about 1948. They are, back row from left, Percy Nicholson, George Sweet, Helen Sweet, Ella Briggs, Madilyn Bradley, Percy Robinson and Gene Woodsworth.
In the front row, from left, are Hazel Tingley, Emily Shaw, Henry McBride, Phyllis Nelder, Cedric Shaw, Cecil McBride, Ada Lunn and Thelma Hainning.
About This Item
- Title: Littleton Grange, ca. 1948
- Creation Date: circa 1948
- Subject Date: circa 1948
- Location: Littleton, Aroostook County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 20.3 cm x 25.4 cm
- Object Type: Image
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People
- Bradley, Madilyn
- Briggs, Ella
- Haining, Thelma
- Lunn, Ada
- McBride, Cecil
- McBride, Henry
- Nelder, Phyllis
- Nicholson, Percy
- Robinson, Percy
- Shaw, Cedric
- Shaw, Emily
- Sweet, George
- Sweet, Helen
- Tingley, Hazel
- Woodsworth, Gene
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Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum1678 U.S. Route 1, Littleton, ME 04730
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