Keywords: Safety improvements
Item 74853
Electrical first-aid booklet, 1915
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1915 Media: Ink on paper
Item 74854
Electric shock first-aid poster, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
Looking Out: Maine's Fire Towers
Maine, the most heavily forested state in the nation, had the first continuously operational fire lookout tower, beginning a system of fire prevention that lasted much of the twentieth century.
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Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911
"… this stamped lithographed steel button with the safety pin on the rear, like those still manufactured a century later."
Story
Stripped Of More Than Clothing
by Dan Adams
Juvenile strip searches while incarcerated.
Story
My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne
Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima
