Maine Memory Network

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Online Exhibits

"Online Exhibits Our MCHP Team has put together the following exhibits. We hope that you enjoy exploring them as much as we have enjoyed working on…"

Lincoln, Maine - Osgood's Store

"Bennie F. Osgood bought the location. Women's and children’s clothes were added to the line. On April 28, 1960, Mr."

John Martin: Expert Observer - About This Project

"Thanks to the generosity of the the Maine Women Writers Collection and the Abplanalp Library at the University of New England this volume also has…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Organizational Uniforms

"… workaday; athletic-style sports team uniforms and school jackets; or uniforms associated with national organizations like the Red Cross."

Historic Clothing Collection - Organizational Uniforms

"… workaday; athletic-style sports team uniforms and school jackets; or uniforms associated with national organizations like the Red Cross."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 13 of 17

"Local women teamed up to create care packages and letters to Biddeford and Saco Soldiers. On behalf of the women of Biddeford, the Union and Journal…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - The History of Laundry, Aroostook County Style - Page 2 of 2

"Washing the clothes took two to three hours. Some women also did laundry for other people, such as neighbors and friends, to make extra money."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"It was formerly a birthing house, where women came to deliver their babies. The Merrill Monument at the cemetery honors William and Louville Merrill…"

Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals

"She witnessed women giving birth in their homes or in “maternity hospitals.” She saw this as a perfect opportunity."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"… of the Women's Suffrage Movement, the right for women to vote was finally ratified for women everywhere in the U.S."

Mercy Hospital - McAuley Residence

"… presence of significant populations of homeless women and children, and the other was the availability of educational and employment resources…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - "Good the more communicated, the more abundant grows" : The Thursday Club

"Everywhere groups of women were found who eagerly seized the idea and shaped it according to their own conditions and needs."

Blue Hill, Maine - A New Look at an Old Painting

"… an Edenic place made secure for the sunbonneted women on the left, as the male figure in the foreground drives a snake from the yard."

Lincoln, Maine - Civil War

"… contribution to the war effort was 1,261 women and men. In 1861, 86 volunteers came from Lincoln and in 1862, 58 volunteers came from Lincoln."

Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"Human Interest Two women with whiskey glasses, ca. 1854Maine Historical Society While most early photographers created formal images of their…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"There were still sewing circles, where women socialized as they worked, but now fraternal and farmer's groups, such as the Grange, which reached its…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block

"… on the Church Block that are still there are women's faces cast into the iron columns. Haley bill for Church Block, Bath, 1886Patten Free…"

Fryeburg Public Library

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor During the 1940s

"… between the ages of 18 and 26 went off to war, women were expected to replace them in the workforce, and people of all ages contributed in a…"

Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy

"Currently the largest organization of religious women in the English-speaking world, and found in more than 40 countries serving in a multitude of…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"Schools were kept open as long as funds allowed, usually about eight weeks in spring and eight in winter -- four months in all."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"The Central School burned December 24, 1906, and in 1907 a new school was built and named Abbott School for Elizabeth Abbott who had originally…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"They often featured women on their advertisements such as Davis Hatch's business card of 1880. Business owners also advertised by placing large signs…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"These men and women suffered difficulties they had not previously encountered and subsisted on the land and sea like they had probably never done…"