Keywords: essential work
Item 105868
Postal worker appreciation, Portland, 2020
Courtesy of an individual partner Date: 2020-04-20 Location: Portland Media: Digital image
Item 7393
Maine General Hospital sketch, Portland, ca. 1872
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1872 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
While numerous Mainers worked for and against woman suffrage in the state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some also worked on the national level, seeking a federal amendment to allow women the right to vote
Exhibit
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.
Site Page
Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell
"… donated his architectural drawings to the Maine Historical Society, where they are essential to telling the story of how modernism came to Maine."
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4
"… process, that is, one that changed little in its essentials through the years. It was almost entirely handwork, with hardly any mechanical assist."
Story
A New Beginning for Wabanaki Land Relationships
by John Banks
Wabanaki leadership in land stewardship
Story
Co-founding Halcyon Yarn and learning to weave
by Hector Jaeger
Moving to Maine, Halcyon Yarn, and rediscovering the joy of weaving
