Keywords: Rum
Item 135730
Portland City Hall Rum Room, ca. 1907
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1907 Location: Portland Media: Postcard
Item 135767
Suspected Rum Runner Dixie III, Portland, 1927
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1927 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
Rum, Riot, and Reform - Acknowledgements
"Daveis Benevolent Fund. Rum, Riot, and Reform: Maine and the History of American Drinking Curators: Bill Barry Nan Cumming Design: Nan Cumming Mark…"
Exhibit
Rum, Riot, and Reform - Politics and Enforcement
"Sturdivant. He told Sturdivant, "I have been a rum-seller and a rum-drinker, and have brought my wife and children into trouble and poverty, and I do…"
Site Page
Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century
"… wrote, “In the town of Surry we have not a single rum shop. In the town of Surry we have no drunken men that I know of.” Prohibition Postcard…"
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 108-128
"… in which those views lead him to rail against "rum sellers," the Irish, and any Catholics. Topics and people mentioned include: Patenburg Massacre…"
Story
Maine and the Atlantic World Slave Economy
by Seth Goldstein
How Maine's historic industries are tied to slavery
