Keywords: female workers
Item 101511
Female mill workers on parade, Biddeford, 1933
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1933-10-29 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Item 5616
Portland Company shop and staff, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.
Exhibit
Biddeford, Saco and the Textile Industry
The largest textile factory in the country reached seven stories up on the banks of the Saco River in 1825, ushering in more than a century of making cloth in Biddeford and Saco. Along with the industry came larger populations and commercial, retail, social, and cultural growth.
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House
"The Daughters of Rebekah was the female component to the I.O.O.F., and in 1906, a Rebekah's Lodge opened an orphanage near Manhattan, Kansas."
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4
"Charles M. Bisbee in 1895. Dr. Laura F. Noyes, a female physician and her two physician daughters, Dr. Sarah E. Noyes (Brooks) and Dr."
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
