Keywords: working waterfront
Item 36783
Waterfront, Lubec, ca. 1925, ca. 1925
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1925 Location: Lubec Media: Postcard
Item 12757
Waterfront, Brooklin, ca. 1923
Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: circa 1923 Location: Brooklin Media: Photo transparency
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye
The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.
Site Page
Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Along the Waterfront
"The most common themes were information about ships in harbor, what the longshoremen were working on, and notable large fish that were caught."
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works
"… the bank of the river, just upriver of where the Waterfront Market on Wadsworth Street now stands. Knox’s wastebook is riddled with references to…"
Story
Maine and the Atlantic World Slave Economy
by Seth Goldstein
How Maine's historic industries are tied to slavery
Story
An enjoyable conference, Portland 2021
by John C. Decker, Danville, Pennsylvania
Some snippets from a 4-day conference by transportation historians in Portland, September 7-11, 2021
