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Item 23524
Title: Woman working in Pepperell Mills, Biddeford, 1910
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library
Date: 1910
Location: Biddeford
Media: Black and White Photograph
Item 6614
Title: Woman golfing, Bethel, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1950
Location: Bethel
Media: Photoprint
Item 5471
Title: Signing of Woman Suffrage Proclamation, 1917
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1917-02-23
Location: Augusta
Media: Black and white photograph
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Item 52896
Address: 148-150 Free Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Maine Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Use: Rooming House
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While numerous Mainers worked for and against woman suffrage in the state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some also worked on the national level, seeking a federal amendment to allow women the right to vote
Exhibit
Margaret Chase Smith: A Historic Candidacy
When she announced her candidacy for President in January 1964, three-term Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman to seek the nomination of one of the two major political parties.
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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.