Keywords: Food stuffs
Item 80356
Boneless Cod Fish box, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Friendship Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Friendship Media: Wood with paper label
Exhibit
Fashion for the People: Maine's Graphic Tees
From their humble beginnings as undergarments to today's fashion runways, t-shirts have evolved into universally worn wardrobe staples. Original graphic t-shirts, graphic t-shirt quilts, and photographs trace the 102-year history of the garment, demonstrating how, through the act of wearing graphic tees, people own a part of history relating to politics, social justice, economics, and commemorative events in Maine.
Exhibit
Mainers have been held prisoners in conflicts fought on Maine and American soil and in those fought overseas. In addition, enemy prisoners from several wars have been brought to Maine soil for the duration of the war.
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - The Blizzard of '34 - Page 1 of 2
"… above freezing, reduced the accumulated white stuff a foot, leaving the streets ankle deep in cold water."
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods
"… was in so much water that their food and other stuff were taken out of the store. Employee’s had to go in a canoe and get them in the parking lot."
Story
A Florida Flatlander Finds Adventure in Maine (An Excerpt)
by Steve Hood
Humorous reminisces of former adventures in Maine from a Florida retiree
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
