Maine Memory Network

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

"… managers, while their husbands earned the wages that financially supported the family. The first woman manager of the Swan's Island Electric…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Bangor Commercial article on World's Fair contest

"… them with their votes for the teacher, clerk, or wage earner -- from Bangor or from outside Bangor. The person in each category -- one from Bangor…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 3 of 3

"… War II and the sudden effluence of work and good wages. All the plants managed to scrape by during the Depression, and when war broke out in 1941…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1930-1940 - Page 4 of 4

"This legislation regulated working age, minimum wage and work conditions. Coat label, ca. 1938 X"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 5 of 6

"… feared that they might be forced into tenancy or wage labor. For them, freehold landownership promised independence from overweening landlords or…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 1 of 2

"Wages in Biddeford and throughout Maine were lower, people who would have made a good living in manufacturing were underemployed and working poor…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 1 of 3

"… on preserving the union and abolishing slavery by waging war with Confederate States of America and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"People were out of work or on a wage scale that precluded any extra pleasure trips, and fewer people were riding the trolley to Portland for shopping."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"He discusses jobs that his family held, minimum wage, and his thoughts on President Barack Obama. Raymond Wallace Thomaston ME January 22,2009 1:45…"

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

"… were drawn to the project with promises of high wages. Within weeks of their arrival Jernegan and Fisher, his assistant, had disappeared."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"… Society During the late 1950s, Charles waged a personal campaign to curtail the number of utility poles and transfer stations leading into…"

Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"… was ten to twenty percent of an average day’s wages. Centennial souvenir pin, Lubec, 1911Lubec Historical Society Festooned with electric…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"… a month for the next year, always increasing his wages. Upon returning to Maine the next year, he bought a parcel of land on the west side of…"

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

"… particularly from foreign countries where labor wages were much cheaper, netting has become much less remunerative for the hard work involved."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"The Mi’kmaq waged war against the Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Cannibas, (Etchemin) and the Almouchiquois of southwest Maine to gain control…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Wages and working conditions improved as the industry grew. More on canning sardines in Lubec. Rise and Fall Lubec’s population rose to 3,363 by 1910."

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