Keywords: Women Workers
Item 23523
Women Spinning at Pepperell Mills, Biddeford, 1910
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1910 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Item 70280
Women sorting rags, Brewer, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Maine Folklife Center, Univ. of Maine Date: circa 1920 Location: Brewer Media: Photographic print
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
When America entered the Great War in 1917, the government sent out pleas for help from American women, many of whom responded at the battle front and on the home front.
Site Page
"During the season workers came from Campobello, Grand Manan, Deer Island, and towns throughout Washington County, many living in rows of company…"
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor
"… filled cans waiting on trays on one side of each worker. Solder would still have to be used to seal the cans."
Story
The tradition of lobstering
by Sadie Samuels
I learned to fish from my Dad and will lobster the rest of my life
Story
Growing up in Lewiston
by Kathy Becvar
Growing up in Lewiston in the 1960s and 1970s.
