Keywords: Limited
Item 101418
Margaret Chase Smith commitment to limited campaign spending, 1972
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1972-07-12 Location: Portland; Washington Media: Ink on paper
Item 149933
Flooded street with speed limit sign, Farmington, 1923
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1923 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print
Item 35597
876 Brighton Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Albert S Dresser Use: Dwelling - Two Family and Store
Item 151276
Crystal Cay, Eleuthera, 1990-1992
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1990–1992 Client: Leon Levy Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates
Exhibit
Maine's ample woods historically provided numerous game animals and birds for hunters seeking food, fur, or hides. The promotion of hunting as tourism and concerns about conservation toward the end of the nineteenth century changed the nature of hunting in Maine.
Exhibit
KVVTI's Gilman Street Campus, 1978-1986
The Gilman Street building began its life in 1913 as Waterville High School, but served from 1978 to 1986 as the campus of Kennebec Valley Vocational Technical Institute. The building helped the school create a sense of community and an identity.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Children's Wear
"… and clothing and select examples of everyday or more formal wear. As yet, representation of children’s 20th century clothing is limited."
Site Page
"While river travel is quite limited now, we have held onto our industrial roots and remain, unlike most early settlements, an old fashioned mill-town."
Story
Dr. Norman Beaupré: Preserving his Franco-American culture
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
Journey growing up as a Franco-American in Biddeford to his career as a professor and author.
Story
Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall
Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.
Lesson Plan
Primary Sources: Maine Women's Causes and Influence before 1920
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: Social Studies
This lesson plan will give students the opportunity to read and analyze letters, literature, and other primary documents and articles of material culture from the MHS collections relating to the women of Maine between the end of the Revolutionary War through the national vote for women’s suffrage in 1920. Students will discuss issues including war relief (Civil War and World War I), suffrage, abolition, and temperance, and how the women of Maine mobilized for or in some cases helped to lead these movements.
