Maine Memory Network
Maine's Online Museum

Title: Woman working in Pepperell Mills, Biddeford, 1910

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library

Date: 1910

Location: Biddeford

Media: Black and White Photograph

Title: Woman golfing, Bethel, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: circa 1950

Location: Bethel

Media: Photoprint

Title: Signing of Woman Suffrage Proclamation, 1917

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: 1917-02-23

Location: Augusta

Media: Black and white photograph

Address: 148-150 Free Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Maine Woman's Christian Temperance Union

Use: Rooming House

Debates Over Suffrage

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

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.

Amazing! Maine Stories

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.