Keywords: women
Item 23523
Women Spinning at Pepperell Mills, Biddeford, 1910
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1910 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Item 13251
Maine woman suffrage petition, 1858
Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: 1858 Media: Ink on paper
Item 46357
Assessor's Record, 297-301 Danforth Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Home For Aged Women Use: Land only
Item 50501
Assessor's Record, 60 Emery Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Home for Aged Women Use: Nursing Home
Item 151738
Home for aged women, Portland, 1900-1926
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1900–1926 Location: Portland Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Item 151394
Victoria Mansion, Portland, 1983-1984
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1983–1984 Location: Portland Client: Victoria Society of Maine Women Architect: Carol A. Wilson; R.E. Wengren Associates, Architects
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
Published women authors with ties to Maine are too numerous to count. They have made their marks in all types of literature.
Site Page
"… National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs Power of Potential View the Maine Women's Business Convention Slideshow…"
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women
"Prominent Women Text By: Strong School 7th and 8th Graders, 2011-2012 Julia Harris May poetry collection, 1903Farmington Public Library…"
Story
Waponahki Rematriation
by Sherri Mitchell Weh’na Ha’mu Kkwasset
Women's leadership in Wabanaki communities
Story
The tradition of lobstering
by Sadie Samuels
I learned to fish from my Dad and will lobster the rest of my life
Lesson Plan
Primary Sources: Maine Women's Causes and Influence before 1920
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: Social Studies
This lesson plan will give students the opportunity to read and analyze letters, literature, and other primary documents and articles of material culture from the MHS collections relating to the women of Maine between the end of the Revolutionary War through the national vote for women’s suffrage in 1920. Students will discuss issues including war relief (Civil War and World War I), suffrage, abolition, and temperance, and how the women of Maine mobilized for or in some cases helped to lead these movements.
Lesson Plan
World War I and the U.S. Home Front
Grade Level: 9-12
Content Area: Social Studies
Learn about World War I using primary sources from Maine Memory Network and the Library of Congress.