Keywords: charitable organizations
Item 111833
Free Drawing School certificate from Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, Portland, ca. 1988
Contributed by: Mechanics' Hall Date: circa 1988 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 18428
Diploma, Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, 1838
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1838 Location: Portland Media: Lithograph
Exhibit
A Celebration of Skilled Artisans
The Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, an organization formed to promote and support skilled craftsmen, celebrated civic pride and members' trades with a parade through Portland on Oct. 8, 1841 at which they displayed 17 painted linen banners with graphic and textual representations of the artisans' skills.
Exhibit
Among the Lungers: Treating TB
Tuberculosis -- or consumption as it often was called -- claimed so many lives and so threatened the health of communities that private organizations and, by 1915, the state, got involved in TB treatment. The state's first tuberculosis sanatorium was built on Greenwood Mountain in Hebron and introduced a new philosophy of treatment.
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 2 of 3
"Groups, Clubs & Organizations The Grand Army of the Republic G.A.R. picnic, Strong, ca. 1895 Members of Post 134 of the Grand Army of the…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 1 of 3
"The organization formed in the years following the Civil War to improve the economic and social position of farmers and their families."
