Keywords: Old women
Item 28714
Women in bathing costume, 1915
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1915 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Item 15611
Houlton Women's Club play, 1914
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1914-02-24 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Item 151738
Home for aged women, Portland, 1900-1926
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1900–1926 Location: Portland Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
Women at the turn of the 20th century were increasingly involved in paid work outside the home. For wage-earning women in the Old Port section of Portland, the jobs ranged from canning fish and vegetables to setting type. A study done in 1907 found many women did not earn living wages.
Exhibit
Westbrook Seminary: Educating Women
Westbrook Seminary, built on Stevens Plain in 1831, was founded to educate young men and young women. Seminaries traditionally were a form of advanced secondary education. Westbrook Seminary served an important function in admitting women students, for whom education was less available in the early and mid nineteenth century.
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Old Berwick Historical Society
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Story
Creating the Purr-Sist button
by Ellen Crocker
Motivated by the Women's March and Sen. Warren, I created these buttons
Story
Elizabeth Mantis Spiliopoulos: passion for life & Greek heritage
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
A spunky 99-year-old shares her crystal-clear recollections of all the changes in her lifetime
