Maine Memory Network
Maine's Online Museum

Title: Employees helping each other at Eastern, Brewer, ca. 1959-1966

Contributed by: Maine Folklife Center, Univ. of Maine

Date: 2005-11-28

Location: Brewer

Media: audio recording

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Title: Power company employee badge, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: circa 1915

Media: Metal

Title: Stowell-MacGregor Dance Admission Ticket, 1948

Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society

Date: 1948-03-23

Location: Dixfield

Media: white cardstock with blue printing

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Address: 9 Bishop Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Portland Terminal Co.

Use: Employees Bldg

Address: Preble Street Yard, Portland

Owner in 1924: Portland Terminal Company

Use: Employees Bldg

Laboring in Maine

Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.

Extracting Wealth

Maine's natural resources -- granite, limestone and slate in particular -- along with its excellent ports made it a leader in mining and production of the valuable building materials. Stone work also attracted numerous skilled immigrants.

Civil Defense: Fear and Safety

In the 1950s and the 1960s, Maine's Civil Defense effort focused on preparedness for hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters and a more global concern, nuclear war. Civil Defense materials urged awareness, along with measures like storing food and other staple items and preparing underground or other shelters.

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village

The history of a small western Maine community north of Farmington as told by a team consisting of Strong Historical Society, Strong Elementary School, and Strong Public Library. Exhibit topics include Strong's prominence in the wood products industry (it was once the "Toothpick Capital of the World"), the "Bridge that Changed the Map," schools and educational history, clubs and organizations, "Fly Rod" Crosby, the first Maine guide, and a rich student section related to the Civil War and post-Civil War era in the town.