Keywords: Homeless
Item 102678
Courtesy of Jan Pieter Van Voorst Van Beest, an individual partner Date: circa 2017 Location: Portland Media: Digital photograph
Item 79976
Waldo Street fire, Rumford, 1923
Contributed by: Greater Rumford Area Historical Society Date: 1923-08-02 Location: Rumford Media: Photographic print
Item 67642
149-151 Oxford Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Maine Home for Homeless Boys Use: Apartments & Store
Exhibit
Waldoboro Fire Department's 175 Years
While the town of Waldoboro was chartered in 1773, it began organized fire protection in 1838 with a volunteer fire department and a hand pump fire engine, the Water Witch.
Exhibit
Pigeon's Mainer Project: who decides who belongs?
Street artist Pigeon's artwork tackles the multifaceted topic of immigration. He portrays Maine residents, some who are asylum seekers, refugees, and immigrants—people who are often marginalized through state and federal policies—to ask questions about the dynamics of power in society, and who gets to call themselves a “Mainer.”
Site Page
Mercy Hospital - McAuley Residence
"… Kilbride, participated in a Committee on Homelessness under the leadership of sociologist Sister Mary George O’Toole, Ph.D., who coordinated…"
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Values and Charity
"… the separation of families, causing poverty and homelessness for young women, Mary Merrick Flagg and Mrs. A.C."
Story
We Are An Ordinary Family
by Catherine
Maine's abolitionists offer an answer to my questions about my family's experiences.
Story
An enjoyable conference, Portland 2021
by John C. Decker, Danville, Pennsylvania
Some snippets from a 4-day conference by transportation historians in Portland, September 7-11, 2021
