Keywords: Liquor
Item 104684
Men unloading contraband liquor, ca. 1920
Do you know who these people are?
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1920 Location: Bethel Media: Glass Negative
Item 135725
Firemen in front of City Liquor Agency, Portland, 1886
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1886 Location: Portland Media: photographic print
Exhibit
Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1865 to 1919: The Drys Gain New Adherents and Leaders
"… Civil War and the end of World War I, the anti-liquor cause, now led by both reformers and Republican and Democratic politicians, built a power…"
Exhibit
Rum, Riot, and Reform - Bootleggers vs. Police
"Building such craft for bootleggers brought a brisk business to Downeast boatyards. Prohibition liquor hiding techniques: Victrola before…"
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - City Marshals
"… drinks or drugs, ten seizures of intoxicating liquors , one assault and battery, four thefts of personal property, one fast driver, one malicious…"
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Hallowell House
"… which more than compensate for the absence of liquors." In 1925 eight original members of the Worster Family took over the Old Hallowell House…"
Story
Vegetarians and Zoonosis
by Avery Yale Kamila
Colds, influenza, tuberculosis, measles, smallpox, plague and COVID-19 group under zoonotic diseases
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
