Keywords: Abuse
Item 11434
Report on Baxter School, Augusta, 1982
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1982-07-14 Location: Augusta Media: Photographic print
Item 102665
Courtesy of Jan Pieter Van Voorst Van Beest, an individual partner Date: 2017 Location: Portland Media: Digital
Exhibit
Sugar and Spice: Our Vintage Recipes
Sugar and Spice: Our Vintage Recipes showcases historic recipes, dating from the 18th century to the 1950s, like sweet treats, traditional favorites, promotional printings, medicinal concoctions, curious libations, and recipes that have fallen out of favor.
Exhibit
Rum, Riot, and Reform - Overview & Introduction
"The drive to reform the abuse of alcohol was one of the great moral and social controversies of the 19th and early 20th centuries."
Site Page
Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor
"A complaint of abuse, ill treatment or neglect by the Overseers against the master could result in a court decision to liberate or discharge the…"
Story
Used, Abused, Battered, and Confused
by Anonymous (Maine Correctional Center)
The experience of domestic violence and the criminal justice system in Maine
Story
Orphanage on Revere Street
by anonymous
An orphanage operated by a Mrs. Oliver on 54 Revere Street in Portland, Maine in 1930.