Keywords: Weather Service
Item 19038
Forest Service watchmen, Cooper Hill, Cooper, ca. 1919
Contributed by: Maine Forest Service Date: circa 1919 Location: Cooper Media: Photographic print
Item 19061
Forest Service watchwoman, 1920
Contributed by: Maine Forest Service Date: 1920 Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Putting Men to Work, Saving Trees
While many Mainers were averse to accepting federal relief money during the Great Depression of the 1930s, young men eagerly joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's most popular programs. The Maine Forest Service supervised the work of many of the camps.
Exhibit
Photojournalism & the 1936 Flood
Photojournalism & the 1936 Flood examines the monumental destruction caused by the historic flood of 1936 through the comprehensive and innovative photojournalism done by the Guy Gannett Publishing Company in the weeks surrounding the flood.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods Citations
"“National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office.” 16 July 2006. http://www.srh.noaa.gov/sjt/?n=events-1936flood (accessed Mar. 4, 2010)."
Site Page
Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Icons & Influencers
"MHS received an Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS) grant in 2015 to digitize the full collection, which is now available online."
Story
Learning to fly and instructing cadets at West Point during WWII
by Vera Cleaves
West Point during World War II
Story
Anti-immigrant violence
by Matthew Jude Barker
Prejudice in Maine against immigrants dates back to at least the mid-1700s
