Keywords: mother child
Item 51055
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1860 Location: Portland Media: Ambrotype
Item 103645
Father, mother, and son, ca. 1858
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1858 Location: Portland Media: Daguerreotype
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 - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen
"S: Yes, when my mother worked she used to ride on the back of a truck that would come and pick her up."
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - A Signature Quilt
"… not sure that it came to my grandmother from her mother, it could have been Wealthy Ellen’s, as her sister Almeda made a square."
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
Black Is Beautiful
by Judi Jones
Gut-wrenching fear
