Keywords: Old Exchange
Item 22425
Old Exchange, Portland, in 1845
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1845 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 18949
Exchange Street, Portland, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
Item 50779
46 Exchange Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Estate of Eliz W. Thomas Use: Store & Factory
Item 50783
48 Exchange Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: I Fred Sturdivant Use: Stores & Offices
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
Port of Portland's Custom House and Collectors of Customs
The collector of Portland was the key to federal patronage in Maine, though other ports and towns had collectors. Through the 19th century, the revenue was the major source of Federal Government income. As in Colonial times, the person appointed to head the custom House in Casco Bay was almost always a leading community figure, or a well-connected political personage.
Site Page
Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3
"… public building north of Boston, the Merchants Exchange was built at Middle and Exchange Streets in Portland from designs by the Boston architect…"
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House
"… the Port Surgeon and a room for the Merchant's Exchange and Board of Trade. When the building opened in 1858, Joseph Berry was Collector of Customs…"
Story
Aroostook Potato Harvest: Perspective of a Six Year Old
by Phyllis A. Blackstone
A child's memory of potato harvest in the 1950s
Story
Epidemic of violence against Indigenous people
by Michael-Corey F. Hinton
Systemic racism, murder, and the danger of stereotypes
