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LC Subject Heading: Domestic life--Maine

Historical Items

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Item 80263

Letter to Sarah Tarbox from home, 1841

Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: 1841 Location: Richmond; Westport Island Media: Ink on paper

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Item 80960

Martha Osgood letter on visits from friends, Hollis, 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Hollis Media: Ink on paper

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Item 89849

Rebecca Usher on trip to Quebec, 1840

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1840 Location: Hollis; Three Rivers Media: Ink on paper

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Lesson Plans

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Lesson Plan

Bicentennial Lesson Plan

Primary Sources: Daily Life in 1820

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12 Content Area: Social Studies
This lesson plan will give students the opportunity to explore and analyze primary source documents from the years before, during, and immediately after Maine became the 23rd state in the Union. Through close looking at documents, objects, and art from Maine during and around 1820, students will ask questions and draw informed conclusions about life at the time of statehood.