Maine Memory Network

McArthur Public Library commemorative tea cup, Biddeford, ca. 1905

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1905 Location: Biddeford Media: China

Antonio Sylvain, Tientsin, China, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: circa 1920 Location: Tianjin Media: Photographic print

Edith Barry china closet, Kennebunk, 1950

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1950 Location: Kennebunk Client: Edith Barry Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Toy Len Goon: Mother of the Year

Toy Len Goon of Portland, an immigrant from China, was a widow with six children when she was selected in 1952 as America's Mother of the Year.

Chinese in Maine

In 1857, when Daniel Cough left Amoy Island, China, as a stowaway on a sailing ship from Mt. Desert Island he was on his way into history as the first Chinese person to make his home in Maine. He was soon followed by a cigar maker and a tea merchant who settled in Portland and then by many more Chinese men who spread all over Maine working mostly as laundrymen.

Tate House Museum

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 3 of 17

"Ice harvesting was not only a local, state or national trade, ice was shipped all over the world as far as South America, India and China."

An Asian American Account
by Zabrina

An account from a Chinese American teen during the COVID-19 pandemic.

My career as a chemical engineer for S.D. Warren Paper Company
by Charles Dodge

I worked in S.D. Warren's laboratory, and developed paper coatings, like Ultracast technology