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Item 46816

Business and Professional Women's Club delegates, 1931

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1931 Location: Portland; Richmond Media: Photographic print

Item 46815

Business and Professional Women's Executive Board, Portland, 1931

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1931 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 12575

Business and Professional Women at Grand Trunk station, Portland, 1925

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1925-07-13 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative

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Power of Potential

The National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs (NFBPWC) held their seventh annual convention in Portland during July 12 to July 18, 1925. Over 2,000 working women from around the country visited the city.

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Pepperell Manufacturing fire insurance map, 1929

Biddeford, Saco and the Textile Industry

The largest textile factory in the country reached seven stories up on the banks of the Saco River in 1825, ushering in more than a century of making cloth in Biddeford and Saco. Along with the industry came larger populations and commercial, retail, social, and cultural growth.

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Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine

As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.