Keywords: American Express
Item 9755
American Express Company, Sanford, 1894
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1891 Location: Sanford Media: Photographic print
Item 29434
American Express, Hallowell, ca. 1900
Courtesy of Sumner A. Webber, Sr., an individual partner Date: circa 1900 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print
Item 41782
80-84 Cross Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: American Railway Express Co. Use: Stable
Item 150361
Plan of Office for American Express Co., Lewiston, ca. 1912
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1912 Location: Lewiston Client: American Express Co. Architect: Coombs Brothers
Item 150464
Block for Dr. T. U. Coe, Lewiston, 1900-1937
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1900–1937 Location: Lewiston; Lewiston; Lewiston Client: Thomas Upton Coe Architect: Coombs and Gibbs Architects
Exhibit
"Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"
Concern about immigrants and their loyalty in the post World War I era led to programs to "Americanize" them -- an effort to help them learn English and otherwise adjust to life in the United States. Clara Soule ran one such program for the Portland Public Schools, hoping it would help the immigrants be accepted.
Exhibit
A Convenient Soldier: The Black Guards of Maine
The Black Guards were African American Army soldiers, members of the segregated Second Battalion of the 366th Infantry sent to guard the railways of Maine during World War II, from 1941 to 1945. The purpose of the Black Guards' deployment to Maine was to prevent terrorist attacks along the railways, and to keep Maine citizens safe during the war.
Site Page
Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"
"… Americans" Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans View Immigration and Americanization slideshow Text by Rachel Miller Images from Maine…"
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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Icons & Influencers
"While photo journalism began during the American Civil War, newspapers seldom used photography to illustrate or enhance stories until nearly seventy…"
Story
Where are the French?
by Rhea Côté Robbins
Franco-Americans in Maine
Story
The Journey Home
by Gina Brooks
I am a Maliseet artist from the St. Mary’s First Nation, my work is about our connection to the land
Lesson Plan
Longfellow Studies: Integration of Longfellow's Poetry into American Studies
Grade Level: 9-12
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
We explored Longfellow's ability to express universality of human emotions/experiences while also looking at the patterns he articulated in history that are applicable well beyond his era. We attempted to link a number of Longfellow's poems with different eras in U.S. History and accompanying literature, so that the poems complemented the various units. With each poem, we want to explore the question: What is American identity?
Lesson Plan
What Remains: Learning about Maine Populations through Burial Customs
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual & Performing Arts
This lesson plan will give students an overview of how burial sites and gravestone material culture can assist historians and archaeologists in discovering information about people and migration over time. Students will learn how new scholarship can help to dispel harmful archaeological myths, look into the roles of religion and ethnicity in early Maine and New England immigrant and colonial settlements, and discover how to track changes in population and social values from the 1600s to early 1900s based on gravestone iconography and epitaphs.
