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Keywords: child labor
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Item 67543
Title: Child laborers, Lewiston, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: 1920
Location: Lewiston
Media: Photograph
Item 4190
Title: Anti child labor float, Portland, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1895
Location: Portland
Media: Black and white photograph
Item 133
Title: Fish processing, Eastport, ca. 1902
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1902
Location: Eastport
Media: Black and white photograph
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From French Canadians to Franco-Americans
French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.
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A history of the easternmost town in Maine as created by the Lubec Historical Society, Lubec Consolidated School, Lubec Landmarks, and Lubec Memorial Library. Exhibits include the sardine and herring industries, the Sardine Queen, the West Quoddy Head Lighthouse, the 1911 Centennial Celebration, the S. S. Cumberland Steamer, the gold hoax, an important community quilt, a tragic boating accident, and the blizzard of 1934, among others.