Keywords: child care
Item 103262
Allocation of money for the children of the late John B. Russwurm, Yarmouth, 1852
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1852-07-06 Location: Yarmouth Media: Ink on paper
Item 103950
Children knitting at the Portland Day Nursery, Portland, 1923
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1923 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
One Hundred Years of Caring -- EMMC
In 1892 five physicians -- William H. Simmons, William C. Mason, Walter H. Hunt, Everett T. Nealey, and William E. Baxter -- realized the need for a hospital in the city of Bangor had become urgent and they set about providing one.
Exhibit
We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.
Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Child Labor
"Most other countries have laws against child labor too, but they are not always mandatory, and child labor is still a big issue everywhere."
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4
"Frank Van Riper, photo X The words of a careful investigator, Ansley Hall, tell much about the process, even then, already practiced in Lubec for…"
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
Story
Story of the "little nun"
by Felicia Garant
My grandmother made a nun's outfit for me
