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Hampden Youth Temperance Society Constitution, 1839

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1839 Location: Hampden Media: Ink on paper

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Juvenile Temperance Society pledge, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864-03-23 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Temperance Membership

"GALLERIES: A Call to Temperance | Temperance Membership | Neal Dow | Drinking: Elegance and Debauchery"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Women Leaders and Temperance

"… Collections of Maine Historical Society Temperance march in Bangor, 1909Courtesy of Henry Gartley, an individual partner W.C.T.U."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Icons & Influencers

"… under owner Colonel Fred Dow (son of infamous Temperance advocate, Neal Dow), but starting with Guy Gannett’s ownership in 1925, the Evening…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"Mr. Park was an active temperance worker and an able correspondent of the local papers. An excerpt from his diary reads: I packed my goods, loaded…"

Primary Sources: Maine Women's Causes and Influence before 1920

Grade Level: 6-8 Content Area: Social Studies
This lesson plan will give students the opportunity to read and analyze letters, literature, and other primary documents and articles of material culture from the MHS collections relating to the women of Maine between the end of the Revolutionary War through the national vote for women’s suffrage in 1920. Students will discuss issues including war relief (Civil War and World War I), suffrage, abolition, and temperance, and how the women of Maine mobilized for or in some cases helped to lead these movements.

Building Community/Community Buildings

Grade Level: 6-8 Content Area: Social Studies
Where do people gather? What defines a community? What buildings allow people to congregate to celebrate, learn, debate, vote, and take part in all manner of community activities? Students will evaluate images and primary documents from throughout Maine’s history, and look at some of Maine’s earliest gathering spaces and organizations, and how many communities established themselves around certain types of buildings. Students will make connections between the community buildings of the past and the ways we express identity and create communities today.