Keywords: Vegetables
Item 14218
Fresh vegetables, Good Will Homes, ca. 1900
Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1900 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print
Item 6763
Jewett self-heating can drawing, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Media: Ink on paper
Item 116434
Hannaford Brothers Warehouse, Portland, 1919-1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1919–1920 Location: Portland Client: Hannaford Brothers Company Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Item 109511
Plans of House for Mr. F. W. Chandler, Brunswick, 1911
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1911 Location: Brunswick Client: F. W. Chandler Architect: Gibbs and Pulsifer Architects
Exhibit
Women at the turn of the 20th century were increasingly involved in paid work outside the home. For wage-earning women in the Old Port section of Portland, the jobs ranged from canning fish and vegetables to setting type. A study done in 1907 found many women did not earn living wages.
Exhibit
Maine's corn canning industry, as illuminated by the career of George S. Jewett, prospered between 1850 and 1950.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Ladies Blush apple, Bangor, 1889
"… of his landscape designs, and the fruit trees and vegetables he grew. In a journal and scrapbooks he began writing and illustrating in 1864 to…"
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - The War Effort
"Although vegetables cost less than things like meat because it was more plentiful, families wanted to do as much as they could to save ration tokens."
Story
Growing up on a potato and dairy farm
by Paula Woodworth
Life growing up and working on a potato and dairy farm was hard work but fun in Aroostook County.
Story
Peter Spanos fled the genocide in Turkey to Maine
by anonymous
Peter Spanos fled the Greek genocide in Smyrna in 1922, coming to Maine to work as a fruit peddler
