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Item 23666

Wood shop, Maine School for the Deaf, Portland, 1925

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1925 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative

Item 23665

Wood shop, Maine School for the Deaf, 1925

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1925 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative

Item 14519

Bench hook used in sailmaking, ca. 1900

Courtesy of Gambell and Hunter Sailmakers, an individual partner Date: circa 1900 Location: Camden Media: Iron, dacron

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Putting Men to Work, Saving Trees

While many Mainers were averse to accepting federal relief money during the Great Depression of the 1930s, young men eagerly joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's most popular programs. The Maine Forest Service supervised the work of many of the camps.

Exhibit

Writing on the board, North School, Portland, ca. 1915

Back to School

Public education has been a part of Maine since Euro-American settlement began to stabilize in the early eighteenth century. But not until the end of the nineteenth century was public education really compulsory in Maine.

Exhibit

A Field Guide to Trolley Cars

Many different types of trolley cars -- for different weather, different uses, and different locations -- were in use in Maine between 1895-1940. The "field guide" explains what each type looked like and how it was used.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Dip nets at McCurdy's Smokehouse, Lubec, ca. 1995

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 4 of 4

"… out of the brine, so they could be taken to the benches where “stringers” were working. “Spudger” in the Brining Room in 1990 Frank Van Riper…"

Site Page

Aerial view looking toward Lubec, ca. 1950

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"The workers are lined up on each side of the bench with individual stoves for heating their soldering iron."

Site Page

Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 2 of 2

"… evident in a tintype of a man seated on a bench on a faux beach with a maritime scene behind him, complete with a sailing vessel and a lighthouse…"