Keywords: Ladies Library Club
Item 6729
Woman's Library Club, Lovell, ca. 1901
Contributed by: Lovell Historical Society Date: circa 1901 Location: Lovell Media: Photographic print
Item 31222
Thursday Club constitution and by-laws, Biddeford, ca. 1900
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Biddeford Media: Ink and pencil on paper
Item 111981
Waterford Library, Waterford, 1937
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1930–1937 Location: Waterford Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.
Exhibit
These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Ladies' Third Annual Banquet, Farmington, 1893
"Ladies' Third Annual Banquet, Farmington, 1893 Contributed by Farmington Public Library Description The program for the Banquet held at…"
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
