Keywords: maine charitable mechanics banners
Item 36608
Coopers' trade banner, Portland, 1841
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1841 Location: Portland Media: Oil on linen
Item 36586
Tailors trade banner, Portland, 1841
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1841 Location: Portland Media: Oil on linen
Exhibit
A Celebration of Skilled Artisans
The Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, an organization formed to promote and support skilled craftsmen, celebrated civic pride and members' trades with a parade through Portland on Oct. 8, 1841 at which they displayed 17 painted linen banners with graphic and textual representations of the artisans' skills.
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Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine
BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.
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