Keywords: attributed
Item 11248
Child's rocking chair, Portland, ca. 1850
Contributed by: Old York Historical Society Date: circa 1850 Location: Portland; Westbrook Media: Birch or maple
Item 11242
Walnut high chest, attributed to John Bradbury, Sr., York, ca. 1740
Contributed by: Old York Historical Society Date: circa 1740 Location: York Media: Walnut with pine secondary
Exhibit
In Maine, like many other states, a newly formed Ku Klux Klan organization began recruiting members in the years just before the United States entered World War I. A message of patriotism and cautions about immigrants and non-Protestants drew many thousands of members into the secret organization in the early 1920s. By the end of the decade, the group was largely gone from Maine.
Exhibit
Northern Threads: The rise and fall of the gigot sleeve
A themed exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring the balloon-like gigot sleeve of the 1830s.
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Wharves and Yards - 1795 to 1825
"… according to Eaton, but no records of vessels attributed to him appear until the 110-ton schooner “Montpelier” was launched in 1803."
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 2 of 2
"… at Christmas, and park maintenance were also attributed to him. The Rumford Mechanics Institute, the largest building constructed by Chisholm on…"
Story
Quinton "Skip" Wilson: different aspects of "standing out"
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
Recollections of life as Biddeford's only student of color during the 1960-70s
