Keywords: starving
Item 102497
Donation certificate for starving European children, Portland, 1921
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1921-02-01 Location: Portland; New York Media: Ink on paper
Item 102504
Letter to Woodrow Wilson regarding Prohibition during WWI, Bangor, ca. 1916
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1916 Location: Bangor Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections
Explore topics around climate change by reuniting collections from one of the nation's earliest natural history museums, the Portland Society of Natural History. The exhibition focuses on how museums collect, and the role of humans in creating changes in society, climate, and biodiversity.
Exhibit
The Sanitary Commission: Meeting Needs of Soldiers, Families
The Sanitary Commission, formed soon after the Civil War began in the spring of 1861, dealt with the health, relief needs, and morale of soldiers and their families. The Maine Agency helped families and soldiers with everything from furloughs to getting new socks.
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War
"… water and proper food supply, many people starved or died from disease. One prisoner named Michigan John Ransom wrote in his diary: “There is so…"
Story
Orphanage on Revere Street
by anonymous
An orphanage operated by a Mrs. Oliver on 54 Revere Street in Portland, Maine in 1930.
Story
Two-minute Tale of the Pandemic
by Nancy Creighton Collins
What everyday life was like during the beginning of the pandemic.
