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LC Subject Heading: Women--Maine

Historical Items

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Item 14030

Hattie Leach Green, Brewer, ca. 1870

Contributed by: Brewer Public Library Date: circa 1870 Location: Brewer Media: Albumin print

Item 15794

Three Friends in Bangor

Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: 1943 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print

Item 37050

Clara Shepherd, ca. 1845

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1845 Media: Daguerreotype

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 111599

Belle Dyer house, Cape Elizabeth, 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1900 Location: Cape Elizabeth Client: Belle Dyer Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Lesson Plans

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Lesson Plan

Bicentennial 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.