Keywords: 1920s
Item 105681
Grosgrain silk day dress, ca. 1922
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1922 Media: silk, velvet, cotton
Item 105687
Hattie B. Morrison's chiffon dress, Belmont, NH, ca. 1926
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1926 Location: Belmont Media: silk, beads
Item 111258
School of Fine Arts, Portland, ca. 1914
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1914 Location: Portland Client: Portland Society of Art Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
Prohibition in Maine in the 1920s
Federal Prohibition took hold of America in 1920 with the passing of the Volstead Act that banned the sale and consumption of all alcohol in the US. However, Maine had the Temperance movement long before anyone was prohibited from taking part in one of America's most popular past times. Starting in 1851, the struggles between the "drys" and the "wets" of Maine lasted for 82 years, a period of time that was everything but dry and rife with nothing but illegal activity.
Exhibit
The Establishment of the Troy Town Forest
Seavey Piper, a selectman, farmer, landowner, and leader of the Town of Troy in the 1920s through the early 1950s helped establish a town forest on abandoned farm land in Troy. The exhibit details his work over ten years.
Site Page
"… & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s Adapted from an exhibit at the Abbe Museum ; narrative text by exhibit curators Bunny McBride…"
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Eastern Manufacturing Company, Lincoln, ca. 1920 - Page 1 of 2
"… called the Eastern Manufacturing Company in the 1920s. In the bottom right of the photograph is a conveyor belt that put wood in a box car and…"
Story
Geraldine Litalien: painting a picture of life in Biddeford
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
Impact on everyday life from events occurring from the late 1920s through 2018
Story
Baxter State Park and Burton W. Howe
by Jason Howe
Formation of Baxter State Park and the involvement of Burton W. Howe of Patten
Lesson Plan
Immigration: The Not So Open Door
Grade Level: 9-12
Content Area: Social Studies
Learn about immigration in the United States using primary sources from Maine Memory Network and the Library of Congress.
