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Title: Woman working in Pepperell Mills, Biddeford, 1910

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library

Date: 1910

Location: Biddeford

Media: Black and White Photograph

Title: Gannett Publishing Company workroom, Augusta, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: circa 1930

Location: Augusta

Media: Photograph

Title: Sisters Working on Fancy Goods, Sabbathday Lake

Contributed by: United Society of Shakers

Date: circa 1902

Location: New Gloucester

Media: Slide from a glass-plate negative

Address: 55 Alder Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Zafiris Vamvakias et als

Style: Utilitarian

Use: Mill - Cabinet Works

Address: 84 Hanover Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Cornelius A. Mannix

Use: Granite Works

Address: 69-85 Kennebec Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Gist Blair

Use: Factory - Cabinet Works

Working Women of the Old Port

Women at the turn of the 20th century were increasingly involved in paid work outside the home. For wage-earning women in the Old Port section of Portland, the jobs ranged from canning fish and vegetables to setting type. A study done in 1907 found many women did not earn living wages.

Putting Men to Work, Saving Trees

While many Mainers were averse to accepting federal relief money during the Great Depression of the 1930s, young men eagerly joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's most popular programs. The Maine Forest Service supervised the work of many of the camps.

Settling along the Androscoggin and Kennebec

The Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick was a land company formed in 1714 and it set out to settle lands along the Androscoggin and Kennebec Rivers in Maine.

City of Portland Department of Public Works

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Maine Historic Preservation Commission

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Lubec, Maine

A history of the easternmost town in Maine as created by the Lubec Historical Society, Lubec Consolidated School, Lubec Landmarks, and Lubec Memorial Library. Exhibits include the sardine and herring industries, the Sardine Queen, the West Quoddy Head Lighthouse, the 1911 Centennial Celebration, the S. S. Cumberland Steamer, the gold hoax, an important community quilt, a tragic boating accident, and the blizzard of 1934, among others.