Keywords: Ship building industry
Item 102275
Portland Company shop drawing of a ship boiler, Portland, 1905
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1905 Location: Portland Media: Ink on Linen
Item 21560
Bow, Liberty Ship, South Portland, 1943
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1943-03-23 Location: South Portland Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age
"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Industrial Recources
"Ship's Caulking Tool KitDavistown Museum Early shipbuilding in Hallowell was quite different from modern shipbuilding today because of the tools…"
Site Page
"Every time they got a new shipping material(another item) the captain would write it all down in his captains log which contains the item, how much…"
Story
Maine and the Atlantic World Slave Economy
by Seth Goldstein
How Maine's historic industries are tied to slavery
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
