Keywords: Workplace safety
Item 74853
Electrical first-aid booklet, 1915
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1915 Media: Ink on paper
Item 74441
CMP First Aid Team, Rockland, 1929
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1929 Location: Rockland Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine
As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.
Exhibit
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
