Keywords: child picture
Item 22590
William A. Moody, Kennebunk, 1865
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1865 Location: Kennebunk Media: Photographic print
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
Port of Portland's Custom House and Collectors of Customs
The collector of Portland was the key to federal patronage in Maine, though other ports and towns had collectors. Through the 19th century, the revenue was the major source of Federal Government income. As in Colonial times, the person appointed to head the custom House in Casco Bay was almost always a leading community figure, or a well-connected political personage.
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
Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor
"… Hine, a photographer investigating the use of child labor in the canneries in 1911, was convinced unemployment and damage to family life resulted."
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2
"Click on the picture then read the text telling of the portion of this structure which still exists as of 2011."
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
Alice Bertrand shares highlights from her 100+ years
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
What is it like to live through all the events that have occurred in the past 100+ years?
