Maine Memory Network

Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"They picked one girl from each factory and there were seven factories and I was the one chosen at the Union factory."

Otisfield Historical Society

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Bangor Public Library

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

"… 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."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"A Piece Of The World, Orphan Train, Orphan Train Girl, Bird In Hand, The Way Life Should Be, Desire Lines, Sweet Water, About Me, Child Of Mine, Room…"

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… to the first child born in the settlement, a baby girl which she names Esther. Then in December Mrs. Robert Low Jr."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"But it wasn’t overlooked. Lucy Belcher opened a school for girls named The Willows in 1872. Her father, Hannibal Belcher, built a ‘commodious…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… preparatory boarding and day school for boys and girls in grades six through high school. When Hannibal Hamlin was still young, he really wanted to…"