Keywords: ladies clubs
Item 31196
Thursday Club anniversary program, Biddeford, 1939
Contributed by: Biddeford Historical Society Date: 1939-01-04 Location: Biddeford Media: Ink on paper
Item 31629
Letter from Cora Belle Bickford to Ada Whitehead, Biddeford, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Biddeford Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Biddeford Media: Ink 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
Dressing Up, Standing Out, Fitting In
Adorning oneself to look one's "best" has varied over time, gender, economic class, and by event. Adornments suggest one's sense of identity and one's intent to stand out or fit in.
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 2 of 3
"… (organized on a national basis in 1883); the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic (1896); and the Sons Of Union Veterans of the Civil War…"
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 1 of 3
"… Overseer, Steward, Chaplain, Assistant Steward, Lady Assistant Steward, Secretary, Treasurer, Lecturer and Master."
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
