Maine Memory Network

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"… medical care and personal counseling to pregnant women who lacked a private physician or were unable to afford care anywhere else."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"Many Hampden women worked in the mill’s rag room. In 1840 another Hampden mill, the Norton Paper Mill, began operation using machinery to make paper…"

Lincoln, Maine - World War I

"It was all men, so those women and children would have to step up and do extra chores and duties to get by."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Founding of the Farmington State Normal School

"… School graduated its first class of ten young women. Following the graduation ceremonies, the Rev. Dr."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"They often featured women on their advertisements such as Davis Hatch's business card of 1880. Business owners also advertised by placing large signs…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"… of Jessie Monohon and Linnie Stanley, two young women who worked at the laundry, deciding to dress up in some of the fancy dresses they were…"

Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals

"She witnessed women giving birth in their homes or in “maternity hospitals.” She saw this as a perfect opportunity."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"With the men away fighting, women would take over work in the mills and raise the children alone. Economically, the Depression affected the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… in Readfield by a tremendous snowstorm and the women and children were forced to remain for four months until spring, while the men journeyed ahead…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… Americans received the right vote in 1870 and women the right to vote in 1920, the United State government did not give this right to native people…"

Bangor Public Library

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"Quite a crowd of men, women and children collected on the brow of the hill near the residence of H. B. Stoyell, Esq."

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Hundreds of young men and women from the city on the Penobscot left to serve their country in every corner of the globe."