Keywords: Factory Girl
Item 29089
The Saco Factory Girl and Emily Adderson Romances of Real Life, 1852
Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: 1852 Location: Saco Media: Ink on paper
Item 27837
Girls at J.B. Pearson Factory, Thomaston, 1912
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: 1912-06-15 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Biddeford, Saco and the Textile Industry
The largest textile factory in the country reached seven stories up on the banks of the Saco River in 1825, ushering in more than a century of making cloth in Biddeford and Saco. Along with the industry came larger populations and commercial, retail, social, and cultural growth.
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.
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Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen
"They picked one girl from each factory and there were seven factories and I was the one chosen at the Union factory."
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Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
