Keywords: child labor
Item 67543
Child laborers, Lewiston, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1920 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print
Item 4190
Anti child labor float, Portland, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
Port of Portland's Custom House and Collectors of Customs
The collector of Portland was the key to federal patronage in Maine, though other ports and towns had collectors. Through the 19th century, the revenue was the major source of Federal Government income. As in Colonial times, the person appointed to head the custom House in Casco Bay was almost always a leading community figure, or a well-connected political personage.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Child Labor
"Most other countries have laws against child labor too, but they are not always mandatory, and child labor is still a big issue everywhere."
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor
"… a photographer investigating the use of child labor in the canneries in 1911, was convinced unemployment and damage to family life resulted."
Story
Aroostook Potato Harvest: Perspective of a Six Year Old
by Phyllis A. Blackstone
A child's memory of potato harvest in the 1950s
Story
Alice Bertrand shares highlights from her 100+ years
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
What is it like to live through all the events that have occurred in the past 100+ years?
