Category: Government, Politics & Law, Political Protests
Item 7310
Petition to Parliament by George Cleeve, 1642
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1642 Media: Ink on paper
Item 104684
Men unloading contraband liquor, ca. 1920
Do you know who these people are?
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1920 Location: Bethel Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
Post office clerks began collecting strong red, white, and blue string, rolling it onto a ball and passing it on to the next post office to express their support for the Union effort in the Civil War. Accompanying the ball was this paper scroll on which the clerks wrote messages and sometimes drew images.
