Keywords: Maine Charitable Mechanics Association
Item 111833
Free Drawing School certificate from Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, Portland, ca. 1988
Contributed by: Mechanics' Hall Date: circa 1988 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 111881
Maine Charitable Mechanic Association bronze medal, Portland, 1854
Contributed by: Mechanics' Hall Date: 1854 Location: Portland Media: Bronze medal
Item 38597
517-519 Congress Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Maine Charitable Mechanics Association Use: Stores & Offices
Exhibit
A Celebration of Skilled Artisans
The Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, an organization formed to promote and support skilled craftsmen, celebrated civic pride and members' trades with a parade through Portland on Oct. 8, 1841 at which they displayed 17 painted linen banners with graphic and textual representations of the artisans' skills.
Exhibit
These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
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