LC Subject Heading: Women--Maine
Item 14030
Hattie Leach Green, Brewer, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Brewer Public Library Date: circa 1870 Location: Brewer Media: Albumin print
Item 15794
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: 1943 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print
Item 151476
Belle Dyer house, Cape Elizabeth, 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1900 Location: Cape Elizabeth Client: Belle Dyer Architect: John Calvin Stevens
Lesson Plan
Primary Sources: Maine Women's Causes and Influence before 1920
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: Social Studies
This lesson plan will give students the opportunity to read and analyze letters, literature, and other primary documents and articles of material culture from the MHS collections relating to the women of Maine between the end of the Revolutionary War through the national vote for women’s suffrage in 1920. Students will discuss issues including war relief (Civil War and World War I), suffrage, abolition, and temperance, and how the women of Maine mobilized for or in some cases helped to lead these movements.
