Keywords: Reform
Item 102163
Francis Hopkinson on voting reform, Philadelphia, 1776
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1776-07-23 Location: Philadelphia Media: Ink on paper
Item 11139
Income tax reform effort, Portland, 1981
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1981-08-12 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Fashionable Maine: early twentieth century clothing
Maine residents kept pace with the dramatic shift in women’s dress that occurred during the short number of years preceding and immediately following World War I. The long restrictive skirts, stiff collars, body molding corsets and formal behavior of earlier decades quickly faded away and the new straight, dropped waist easy-to-wear clothing gave mobility and freedom of movement in tune with the young independent women of the casual, post-war jazz age generation.
Exhibit
Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Reform and Repeal
"Reform and Repeal Back to: 1919 to 1934: The Nation Follows Maine Into Prohibition X Franco-American Temperance Workers Westbrook, ca."
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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Overview & Introduction
"See complete Rum, Riot, and Reform Exhibition Printed Catalog . Introduction Mention the topic of alcohol reform in America and two semi-comical…"
Story
If You Knew My Story
by Anonymous (Maine State Prison)
A story about incarceration in Maine
Story
My Story of Trauma
by Anonymous (Maine Correction Center)
The process of being incarcerated is traumatic. This is my story.
