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Portland Day Nursery building, Portland, ca. 1923

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1923 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative

Boys' Fund, Newport, 1888

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: 1888 Location: Fairfield Media: Ink on paper

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"… spinning, weaving, clothes-making, laundry, and childcare. Women also traded with nearby households, and wives assumed financial and legal…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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