Keywords: War shortages
Item 100331
Eunice Sewall on wartime shortages, Chocktaw County, Alabama, 1864
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864-02-23 Media: Ink on paper
Item 104352
"I need your skill!," World War II poster, 1943
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1943 Media: Lithograph
Exhibit
Mainers have been held prisoners in conflicts fought on Maine and American soil and in those fought overseas. In addition, enemy prisoners from several wars have been brought to Maine soil for the duration of the war.
Exhibit
Field & Homefront: Bethel during the Civil War
Like many towns, Bethel responded to the Civil War by sending many soldiers and those at the homefront sent aid and supported families. The town grew during the war, but suffered after its end.
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - The War Effort
"Rationing was especially necessary during World War II because the military needed to have enough fresh food and other goods to feed the growing…"
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal
"… and economically to take advantage of lumber shortages in much of the east coast and beyond -- and of what must have seemed like endless timber…"
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
Story
Portland in the 1940s
by Carol Norton Hall
As a young woman in Portland during WWII, the presence of servicemen was life changing.
