Keywords: Home life
Item 14351
Tobey's Army, Good Will Home, 1917
Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: 1917 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print
Item 108983
Margaret R. Foote application for membership to Old Ladies Home, Bath, 1949
Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: 1949-12-14 Location: Bath Media: Ink on paper
Item 38550
394-402 Congress Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Union Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Maine Use: Bank & Offices
Item 50817
116-124 Exchange Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Union Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Maine Use: Offices
Item 111503
Shugart residence elevations, Wendell, NC, 1977
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1977 Location: Wendell Clients: Nancy Shugart; Sam Shugart Architect: Edwin F. Harris; Edwin F. Harris, Architect
Item 111530
House for F. J. Allen, Sanford, 1904
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1904 Location: Sanford Client: F. J. Allen Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland
The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.
Exhibit
Belfast During the Civil War: The Home Front
Belfast residents responded to the Civil War by enlisting in large numbers, providing relief from the home front to soldiers, defending Maine's shoreline, and closely following the news from soldiers and from various battles.
Site Page
Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Privy
"… some insights into the nature of working class life in an urban household of mid-19th-century Portland."
Site Page
Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The House, 1786-1960
"Gradually, the house was no longer in a rural setting. But Portland and the nature of urban life has changed dramatically."
Story
August 12, 1967 was the most significant day of my life
by Bob Small
How the Vietnam war affected my life
Story
Born in Bangor 1936
by Priscilla M. Naile
Spending time at the Bangor Children's Home
Lesson Plan
Primary Sources: Daily Life in 1820
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: Social Studies
This lesson plan will give students the opportunity to explore and analyze primary source documents from the years before, during, and immediately after Maine became the 23rd state in the Union. Through close looking at documents, objects, and art from Maine during and around 1820, students will ask questions and draw informed conclusions about life at the time of statehood.
Lesson Plan
Teddy Roosevelt, Millie, and the Elegant Ride Companion Curriculum
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8
Content Area: Social Studies
These lesson plans were developed by Maine Historical Society for the Seashore Trolley Museum as a companion curriculum for the historical fiction YA novel "Teddy Roosevelt, Millie, and the Elegant Ride" by Jean. M. Flahive (2019). The novel tells the story of Millie Thayer, a young girl who dreams of leaving the family farm, working in the city, and fighting for women's suffrage. Millie's life begins to change when a "flying carpet" shows up in the form of an electric trolley that cuts across her farm and when a fortune-teller predicts that Millie's path will cross that of someone famous. Suddenly, Millie finds herself caught up in events that shake the nation, Maine, and her family. The lesson plans in this companion curriculum explore a variety of topics including the history of the trolley use in early 20th century Maine, farm and rural life at the turn of the century, the story of Theodore Roosevelt and his relationship with Maine, WWI, and the flu pandemic of 1918-1920.
