Keywords: War Housing
Item 78918
Bag Mill bachelor housing, Rumford, 1946
Contributed by: Greater Rumford Area Historical Society Date: 1946-08-08 Location: Rumford Media: Photographic print
Item 102549
"For Every Fighter A Woman Worker" Y.W.C.A. World War I poster, 1918
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1918 Media: Ink on paper
Item 64628
Assessor's Record, 9-11 Munjoy Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Debbie J. Sanborn et al, Widow of Civil War Veteran Use: Stable
Item 64627
9-11 Munjoy Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Debbie J. Sanborn et al, Widow of Civil War Veteran Use: Dwelling - Single family
Item 150218
Various jobs for T.W. Cunningham contractors, Bangor, 1942-1948
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1942–1948 Location: Bangor Client: T.W. Cunningham Contractors Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
Item 151335
The Checkley House, Scarborough, 1895
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Scarborough Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens
Exhibit
Photographer Elijah Cobb's 1985 portfolio of the Laura E. Richards House, with text by Rosalind Cobb Wiggins and Laura E. Putnam.
Exhibit
In 1954, November 11 became known as Veterans Day, a time to honor American veterans of all wars. The holiday originated, however, as a way to memorialize the end of World War I, November 11, 1918, and to "perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding between nations." Mainers were involved in World War I as soldiers, nurses, and workers on the homefront aiding the military effort.
Site Page
"I think all the people that fought in the Civil War were really brave. One of the men that was part of the Civil War from Lincoln was William…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War
"… Telegram, Sunday June 11, 1939 Big House Little House Back House Barn. Thomas C. Hubka, University Press of New England, 1984 Eastern Argus, May…"
Story
The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona
Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.
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