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Item 18600

Housewife turns mill machinery expert, 1955

Contributed by: An individual through Steep Falls Library Date: 1955 Location: Standish Media: Photographic print

Item 29261

Thursday Club tea cup, Biddeford, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Biddeford Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Biddeford Media: China

Item 102752

Sadie Gowen house, Coopers Mills, Whitefield, ca. 1920

Contributed by: An individual through Whitefield Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Whitefield Media: Postcard

Online Exhibits

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Writing Women

Published women authors with ties to Maine are too numerous to count. They have made their marks in all types of literature.

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Pepperell Manufacturing fire insurance map, 1929

Biddeford, Saco and the Textile Industry

The largest textile factory in the country reached seven stories up on the banks of the Saco River in 1825, ushering in more than a century of making cloth in Biddeford and Saco. Along with the industry came larger populations and commercial, retail, social, and cultural growth.

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Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine

As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.

Site Pages

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Susie Knight, Sardine Queen Ball, Lubec, 1949

Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"Of course, we didn’t know it but they (the owners) knew by their books that things were going to happen. It just started to go right down hill."

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… living in rows of company houses built by factory owners. Men gathered the herring from weirs, transported them to the factories, cooked the…"

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Aerial view looking toward Lubec, ca. 1950

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"It worked this way: Owners of existing canneries in Lubec and Eastport, and elsewhere, would be given shares in the syndicate and cash for granting…"