Keywords: servants
Item 16429
Contributed by: Stanley Museum Date: circa 1906 Location: Eustis Media: Photographic print
Item 25454
Bay View Hotel, Saco, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Great Cranberry Island's Preble House
The Preble House, built in 1827 on a hilltop over Preble Cove on Great Cranberry Island, was the home to several generations of Hadlock, Preble, and Spurling family members -- and featured in several books.
Exhibit
The Life and Legacy of the George Tate Family
Captain George Tate, mast agent for the King of England from 1751 to the Revolutionary War, and his descendants helped shape the development of Portland (first known as Falmouth) through activities such as commerce, shipping, and real estate.
Site Page
Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor
"An apprentice or servant discharged due to ill treatment, or whose master died, could be bound out again."
Site Page
Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Longfellow Era: 1807-1901
"He later served in the Civil War. Servants An unknown number of servants worked and lived in the home during the Longfellow era."
Story
The gift of a necklace
by Parivash Rohani
When I was born my grandmother gave me a part of a Baha’i prayer for protection.
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
