Keywords: Women owned business
Item 102676
Suwanna Sanguantonkallaya, Portland, 2009
Courtesy of Jan Pieter Van Voorst Van Beest, an individual partner Date: 2017 Location: Portland Media: Digital photograph
Item 71683
Business District, Portland, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Location: Portland Media: Linen texture postcard
Item 65957
25 North Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Fred A. Chase Use: Store
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
Westbrook Seminary: Educating Women
Westbrook Seminary, built on Stevens Plain in 1831, was founded to educate young men and young women. Seminaries traditionally were a form of advanced secondary education. Westbrook Seminary served an important function in admitting women students, for whom education was less available in the early and mid nineteenth century.
Site Page
Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries
"A real estate business was established during the 1880s and was known as the Islesboro Land and Improvement Company."
Site Page
"… While a small number of White New England women owned property, many others facilitated the settlement of early Maine."
Story
The tradition of lobstering
by Sadie Samuels
I learned to fish from my Dad and will lobster the rest of my life
Story
Lloyd LaFountain III family legacy and creating own path
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
Lloyd followed in his family’s footsteps of serving Biddeford and the State of Maine.
