Maine Memory Network

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs

"… National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs Power of Potential View the Maine Women's Business Convention Slideshow…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"Prominent Women Text By: Strong School 7th and 8th Graders, 2011-2012 Julia Harris May poetry collection, 1903Farmington Public Library…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Women's Firsts

"Women in positions as town officials and committee members, however, showed significant change over the same time period, slowly including more women…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 1 of 3

"… of Husbandry, hence the "P of H" on the organization's logo. The National Grange was one of the first formal groups to admit women to membership."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 2 of 3

"Groups, Clubs & Organizations The Grand Army of the Republic G.A.R. picnic, Strong, ca. 1895 Members of Post 134 of the Grand Army of the…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 3 of 3

"Groups, Clubs & Organizations Knights of Pythias The Knights of Pythias was another post-Civil War fraternal organization and secret society…"

Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"… enjoyed the Pocahontas float And the Eastern Star Women on this float are identified. Click on the photo, zoom in, and read Info for their names."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Women sorted, added any condiments and packed the sardines into cans. Each factory would sound its own distinctive whistle to alert workers that…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"Then they went to the Packing Room where women and girls placed the herring in cans, generally in a large well-lit area on the second floor."

Tate House Museum

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Lubec, Maine - Team Members

"… items contributed by over 200 historical organizations around Maine; nearly 100 online exhibits that explore a diverse range of themes and topics…"

Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"… X Steve Clark, past president of the Maine organization and also guidebook editor for 18 years, wrote that Avery long edited the many Guide…"

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"Images from the organization's collection Lighthouse, Sail Rock offshore X It stands tall and straight, despite its advanced age, beaconing…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"… the public in an era larded with local musical organizations, stood at Main and Pleasant Streets, as does the much-rebuilt gazebo as of 2010."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… in their land holdings • President Washington organized Revenue Cutter Service commissioning Hopley Yeaton as its first officer – America’s first…"

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… Marine Salts Company, now a practically defunct organization, with the reverend promoter flown to foreign parts, an alleged swindle of the first…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"

"Although organizations in Portland had provided coursework in the English language and citizenship before, this effort, led by veteran teacher Clara…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Allies & Allegiance: Military comradery at the Centennial, 1920

"… held in the country.” The centennial committee organized a series of grand activities including an exposition, several parades, a music festival…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"Across the street was a women's dress shop, operated by local businessman Walter Hall and a gas service station."

Friends of Wood Island Light

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 3 of 3

"1937 Crosby served as a role model for young women interested in the outdoors. Strong Historical Society Cornelia “Fly Rod” Crosby died on Armistice…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About MCHP

"… items contributed by more than 260 historical organizations around Maine; more than 200 online exhibits that explore a diverse range of themes and…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Running the Town

"76 including two women, Melita Staples and Josephine Beale. Women have served on the school board ever since."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Redmen's Hall

"… Order of Red Men was a national fraternal organization that became popular on Swan's Island in the early 1900s."