Keywords: Only child
Item 103645
Father, mother, and son, ca. 1858
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1858 Location: Portland Media: Daguerreotype
Item 19273
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1855 Media: Daguerreotype
Item 45325
Assessor's Record, 100-102 Danforth Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Portland Baby Hygiene and Child Welfare Assn. Use: Land only
Exhibit
From French Canadians to Franco-Americans
French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.
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
Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor
"… Hine, a photographer investigating the use of child labor in the canneries in 1911, was convinced unemployment and damage to family life resulted."
Site Page
"Until child labor laws were instituted in the 1930s children, using sharp knives, removed the heads, tails and entrails from the fish."
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
Story
My family and Malaga Island
by Charmagne Tripp
The state of Maine evicted all residents of Malaga Island in 1912.
