Search Results

Keywords: Prohibition

Historical Items

View All Showing 2 of 91 Showing 3 of 91

Item 64126

Prohibition Postcard, Surry, 1927

Contributed by: Surry Historical Society Date: 1927-07-12 Location: Surry Media: Postcard

Item 135730

Portland City Hall Rum Room, ca. 1907

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1907 Location: Portland Media: Postcard

Item 82279

Alcohol use permit for Dr. Giguère, Lewiston, 1922

Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1922 Location: Lewiston Media: Ink on paper

  view a full transcription

Online Exhibits

View All Showing 2 of 32 Showing 3 of 32

Exhibit

Prohibition in Maine in the 1920s

Federal Prohibition took hold of America in 1920 with the passing of the Volstead Act that banned the sale and consumption of all alcohol in the US. However, Maine had the Temperance movement long before anyone was prohibited from taking part in one of America's most popular past times. Starting in 1851, the struggles between the "drys" and the "wets" of Maine lasted for 82 years, a period of time that was everything but dry and rife with nothing but illegal activity.

Exhibit

Power of Potential

The National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs (NFBPWC) held their seventh annual convention in Portland during July 12 to July 18, 1925. Over 2,000 working women from around the country visited the city.

Exhibit

Nuclear Energy for Maine?

Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Wiscasset generated electricity from 1972 until 1996. Activists concerned about the plant's safety led three unsuccessful referendum campaigns in the 1980s to shut it down.

Site Pages

View All Showing 2 of 51 Showing 3 of 51

Site Page

Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1919 to 1934: The Nation Follows Maine Into Prohibition

"The Volstead or Prohibition Enforcement Act, passed by Congress on October 28, went into effect with Prohibition."

Site Page

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Reform and Repeal

"… Sabin, the Womens Organization for National Prohibition Reform became an effective anti-prohibition group. X W."

Site Page

Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1865 to 1919: The Drys Gain New Adherents and Leaders

"The most prominent prohibition organization, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.), was founded in 1874."

My Maine Stories

View All Showing 2 of 4 Showing 3 of 4

Story

Picture This: Life on Hancock St, Bangor Maine
by anonymous

A conversation with Jay Millet, who grew up on Hancock St in Bangor Maine during the depression.

Story

Memories of working at the Criterion Theatre
by Vernon L. Cox

Working as a teenager with projectionest Roy Blake at the Criterion Theater

Story

Where are the French?
by Rhea Côté Robbins

Franco-Americans in Maine