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Full-Text Articles in History
Florence Brooks Whitehouse And Maine’S Vote To Ratify Women’S Suffrage In 1919, Anne Gass
Florence Brooks Whitehouse And Maine’S Vote To Ratify Women’S Suffrage In 1919, Anne Gass
Maine History
In 1919, Maine faced an unusual conflict between ratifying the nineteenth amendment to the United States Constitution that would grant full voting rights to women, and approving a statewide suffrage referendum that would permit women to vote in presidential campaigns only. Maine’s pro-suffrage forces had to head off last-minute efforts by anti-suffragists to sabotage the Maine legislature’s ratification vote. Led by Florence Brooks Whitehouse, with support from Alice Paul and other National Woman’s Party organizers, suffragists fought down to the wire to ensure that Maine became the nineteenth state to ratify the federal amendment. Anne B. Gass is an independent …
From Dustbowl And Dairy Farm To Defense Housing: Understanding The Farm Security Administration Photographs Of Bath Iron Works, Rachel Miller
From Dustbowl And Dairy Farm To Defense Housing: Understanding The Farm Security Administration Photographs Of Bath Iron Works, Rachel Miller
Maine History
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Roy Stryker and his team of photographers at the Farm Security Administration (FSA) set out to create images of America that could bolster the spirit of the country in the midst of economic depression and international war. By 1940, photographs of small towns and America’s increasing military capability were common. In December 1940, Stryker sent photographer Jack Delano to Bath, Maine, to document the housing shortage for workers at the Bath Iron Works. This assignment was part of the FSA’s project to monitor and record migrant populations during the Great Depression, with the …
The Library Of Professor Meserve, Daniel Rosenberg
The Library Of Professor Meserve, Daniel Rosenberg
Maine History
Charles Francis Meserve was an early summer resident of Squirrel Island and an important educational reformer around the turn of the twentieth century. Charles married Fannie Philbrick, whose father, John W. Philbrick, built a house on Squirrel Island. Eventually, the Philbrick cottage passed to the Meserves and become home to their books.
A Bibliography Of Local History: The Town Registers Of Maine, James B. Vickery Jr.
A Bibliography Of Local History: The Town Registers Of Maine, James B. Vickery Jr.
Maine History
No abstract provided.
Major Publications Of The Maine Historical Society: A Brief Account, Harland H. Eastman
Major Publications Of The Maine Historical Society: A Brief Account, Harland H. Eastman
Maine History
Walter Muir Whitehill, in his study Independent Historical Societies (Boston Athenæum, 1962), praised the Maine Historical Society as the most “productive of publications” of all New England historical societies during the nineteenth century. The Society produced twenty-six volumes of Collections between 1831 and 1900, eleven volumes of York Deeds between 1887 and 1896, and another twenty volumes of Collections between 1901 and 1916 — an impressive output by any standard. These many volumes, with their wealth of narrative and documentary history, are a rich resource for scholars and laymen alike.
James B. Vickery’S Bibliography Of Maine Town Registers And The Evolution Of Maine History From Newsletter To Scholarly Journal, Harland H. Eastman
James B. Vickery’S Bibliography Of Maine Town Registers And The Evolution Of Maine History From Newsletter To Scholarly Journal, Harland H. Eastman
Maine History
No abstract provided.
Index To Maine History And Its Previous Iterations Published By The Maine Historical Society, 1969 To Date, Maine Historical Society
Index To Maine History And Its Previous Iterations Published By The Maine Historical Society, 1969 To Date, Maine Historical Society
Maine History
Index to Maine History and its Previous Iterations
Journal Cover And Toc, Maine Historical Society
Journal Cover And Toc, Maine Historical Society
Maine History
Cover, editors, and editorial board, and table of contents with authors' names.
List Of Town Registers, James B. Vickery
List Of Town Registers, James B. Vickery
Maine History
List of Town Registers in the state of Maine
Using Minerva And Other Mhs Online Offerings, Jamie Rice, Holly Hurd-Forsyth
Using Minerva And Other Mhs Online Offerings, Jamie Rice, Holly Hurd-Forsyth
Maine History
No abstract provided.
Maria J.C. A’ Becket: Rediscovering An American Artist, Christopher Volpe
Maria J.C. A’ Becket: Rediscovering An American Artist, Christopher Volpe
Maine History
Maria J.C. a’ Becket (or Beckett, as she originally spelled her name) got her start as an artist in Portland, Maine and moved on to new venues in Boston, New York, Bar Harbor, and St.Augustine. She studied in France with well-known Barbizon School landscape painters and returned to American to develop a distinctly personal and American version of the genre. Although her work and legacy are obscure today, Becket was a pioneer professional woman painter and arguably the first woman to build a career as a landscape painter by popularizing the Barbizon style in America. Christopher Volpe moved to New …
Model Cities, Housing, And Renewal Policy In Portland, Maine: 1965-1974, John F. Bauman
Model Cities, Housing, And Renewal Policy In Portland, Maine: 1965-1974, John F. Bauman
Maine History
Shepherded through Congress by Maine Senator Edmund Muskie, the 1967 Model (or Demonstration) Cities Program was originally intended for the nation’s large, ghetto-ridden metropolises where it would target a host of social and economic programs including housing. Thanks to Senator Muskie, both Portland and Lewiston benefited. Before the Nixon Administration scuttled the program in 1973, Portland had created a host of innovative housing, social welfare, law enforcement, and educational programs, shifting the city’s urban renewal program away from its strict emphasis on brick-and-mortar planning. Portland was unique in making Model Cities a part of its downtown renewal. Energizing the city’s …
The Hillbillies Of Maine: Rural Communities, Radio, And Country Music Performers, Erica Risberg
The Hillbillies Of Maine: Rural Communities, Radio, And Country Music Performers, Erica Risberg
Maine History
During the first third of the twentieth century, the United Sates underwent profound social, technological, and economic changes that fundamentally altered rural society. This shift created a divide between rural and urban dwellers, and by the 1930s, country people were developing their own cultural expressions, often reflecting the unique folkways of various regions — the South, Appalachia, the Ozark Plateau, the rural West. One such manifestation of country culture was old-time, or country-western music — also known as hillbilly music. At the time, radio broadcasting was at an experimental stage in reaching an American audience. Station WBLZ in Bangor covered …
Journal Cover And Toc, Maine Historical Society
Journal Cover And Toc, Maine Historical Society
Maine History
Cover, editors, and editorial board, and table of contents with authors' names.
“Taking Up The Slack”: Penobscot Bay Women And The Netting Industry, Nancy Payne Alexander
“Taking Up The Slack”: Penobscot Bay Women And The Netting Industry, Nancy Payne Alexander
Maine History
Between 1860 and 1900 the economy of Penobscot Bay communities changed dramatically, from the steady growth and prosperity of their natural resource-based economy to the decline in population and a painful transition to manufacturing and service industries. Both men and women had enjoyed independence in their labor in the old economy. The new cash economy made it necessary for them to seek out new ways of supporting their families, with home manufacture, or putting out work, one way of earning an income. They remained independent from an employer’s direct supervision and earned cash payment, a change from the face-to-face economy …
The Governor’S Gallows: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain And The Clifton Harris Case, Jason Finkelstein
The Governor’S Gallows: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain And The Clifton Harris Case, Jason Finkelstein
Maine History
In 1867, Auburn was home to one of the most vicious murders committed in the state’s history. Clifton Harris, a southern black teenager, was corralled for questioning and within hours confessed to the crime. He was tried and convicted solely upon his own confession, without any evidence against him. Harris became only the second prisoner ever to be executed in Thomaston State Prison. Indeed, the de facto abolition of the death penalty had taken place nearly three decades earlier, but Governor Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain steadfastly proclaimed that he would carry out Harris’s death sentence in the face of political opposition. …
Hanging Ebenezer Ball, William L. Welch
Hanging Ebenezer Ball, William L. Welch
Maine History
Ebenezer Ball of Robbinston was the first man hanged for murder in Eastern Maine. A native of Massachusetts proper, he had drifted “downeast,” and become part of a lawless culture endemic to Maine’s borderlands in the early nineteenth century. Suspected of counterfeiting and confronted by authority ,he retreated to the woods, and a lawman died at his hands. Although he might have fled, he stayed, and was tried, convicted, and executed for murder in 1811. Ball’s case is seminal, since it gives us insight into the workings of the criminal justice system in Maine in the years prior to statehood. …
Penobscot Men, Michael Prokosch
Penobscot Men, Michael Prokosch
Maine History
The Fowlers of Millinocket lie near the heart of Maine’s north woods story. Henry David Thoreau and Fannie Hardy Eckstorm saw the family’s wilderness existence as antithetical to the commercialization and industrialization of their times, but the Fowlers themselves adapted easily when water power, coal, and oil upended the woods economy around them. Their family history traces the energy revolutions that shaped the northern forest and our country. Mike Prokosch is an organizer, popular economics educator, and hiker who lives in Boston.
Saving Schoodic: A Story Of Development, Lost Settlement, And Preservation, Alan K. Workman
Saving Schoodic: A Story Of Development, Lost Settlement, And Preservation, Alan K. Workman
Maine History
Remote, isolated, and nearly barren Schoodic Point, now the easternmost part of Acadia National Park, was long bypassed by early explorers and settlers. It might have seemed destined to remain deserted, a candidate for coastal parkland preservation in the twentieth century. But like such distant outposts as Vinalhaven, Swan’s, and Ironbound islands, Schoodic in the nineteenth century was overtaken by extensive land development, logging, and settlement by fishermen farmers. Eventually its proximity to Bar Harbor made it a target for vacation resort cottages. Yet Schoodic’s peninsular ecology and elements of its social circumstances helped it escape such development in favor …
The Power Of Place In Memory: An Oral History Of The Eastern Corporation In Brewer,Maine, Pauleena Macdougall, Amy L. Stevens
The Power Of Place In Memory: An Oral History Of The Eastern Corporation In Brewer,Maine, Pauleena Macdougall, Amy L. Stevens
Maine History
“If preservationists are to be true to the insights of a broad, inclusive social history encompassing gender, race and class . . . it means emphasizing the building types — such as tenement, factory, union hall or church — that have housed the working people’s everyday lives.”1 This article introduces a special issue of Maine History on the state’s paper industry and particularly the fortunes of the Eastern Fine Paper Company in Brewer. The mill, which closed in 2005,was an economic and cultural mainstay of this Maine town, and in this article MacDougall and Stevens trace the history of a …
“I’Ve Got A Million Of These Stories”: Workers’ Perspectives At The Eastern Fine Paper Corporation, 1960-2004, Amy Stevens
“I’Ve Got A Million Of These Stories”: Workers’ Perspectives At The Eastern Fine Paper Corporation, 1960-2004, Amy Stevens
Maine History
Maine’s modern history is punctuated by factory closings — the textile mills in the 1950's, the shoe factories in the 1980's and 1990's, and most recently the paper mills in various corners of the state. Although numerous studies document the economic impact of these unfortunate events, we have little recourse to understanding the human impact — the stories of the men and women whose lives were so closely entwined with the mills and the communities they so often founded and supported. In this article, Amy Stevens weaves together the documents and the stories that provide a multifaceted picture of the …
An Enduring Technology: The Horse Logging Tradition In Maine, James E. Passanisi
An Enduring Technology: The Horse Logging Tradition In Maine, James E. Passanisi
Maine History
No abstract provided.
Papermaking In Maine: Economic Trends From 1894 To 2000, Lloyd C. Ireland
Papermaking In Maine: Economic Trends From 1894 To 2000, Lloyd C. Ireland
Maine History
This essay reviews the major economic trends in Maine’s paper industry since the late nineteenth century. It sets the context at national and regional levels, offers a broad statistical picture of the industry’s production in Maine, and concludes with a focus on Maine’s “mill towns.” Paper production is a branch of a larger industry that converts primary fiber — logs, chips, wastepaper, rags, or market pulp — into paper.
Book Reviews, Christian P. Potholm, Polly Welts Kaufman, Carol Toner
Book Reviews, Christian P. Potholm, Polly Welts Kaufman, Carol Toner
Maine History
Reviews of the following books: An Upriver Passamaquoddy by Allen J. Sockabasin; The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories by Elizabeth A. DeWolfe; American Silk, 1830-1930: Entrepremeurs and Artifacts by Jackqueline Field, Marjorie Senechal and Madelyn Shaw.
Something In Common: Eastern Manufacturing Company, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology’S School Of Chemical Engineering Practice, And The University Of Maine, Pauleena Macdougall
Something In Common: Eastern Manufacturing Company, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology’S School Of Chemical Engineering Practice, And The University Of Maine, Pauleena Macdougall
Maine History
Part of Eastern Manufacturing Company’s innovative history in the field of fine paper production was the development of a unique cooperative arrangement with Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Chemical Engineering Department, which was focused on the practical application of chemistry to industry. To further its goals, the MIT department formed Practice Schools that partnered with chemical-using industries across the nation to bring academic chemists and their students into manufacturing plants to solve practical problems in chemistry. Eastern Fine’s pioneering role in this project was a model for the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Maine.
The Life And Career Of Bangor’S Frederick Wellington Ayer (1855-1936), Founder Of Eastern Corporation, Pauleena Macdougall
The Life And Career Of Bangor’S Frederick Wellington Ayer (1855-1936), Founder Of Eastern Corporation, Pauleena Macdougall
Maine History
In this article, Pauleena MacDougall presents a brief business biography of Fred W. Ayer, who founded the Eastern Manufacturing Company in Brewer, Maine, and set this pioneering firm on course as a leader in lumber production and later in the production of fine papers.
A Narrow Escape: A Penobscot Riverdriver’S Perilous Adventure, From The Bangor Whig And Courier, July 9,1875., David C. Smith
A Narrow Escape: A Penobscot Riverdriver’S Perilous Adventure, From The Bangor Whig And Courier, July 9,1875., David C. Smith
Maine History
No abstract provided.
Maine's Embargo Forts, Joshua M. Smith
Maine's Embargo Forts, Joshua M. Smith
Maine History
The Embargo acts, passed in 1806-1808 during the Jefferson administration, were originally designed to punish Great Britain for violating American neutrality on the high seas during the Napoleonic wars. Increasingly, however, the acts were enforced against Americans seeking to defy the embargo and trade with England. Since Maine was heavily committed to trading with Great Britain — and with its colonies immediately to the north of Maine — the War Department ordered several forts built along the District’s coast, ostensibly to protect American citizens from British reprisal or war, but in fact, to enforce the embargoes. The forts brought sharply …
Book Reviews, W. Stanton Maloney, David R. Jones, Charles Horne
Book Reviews, W. Stanton Maloney, David R. Jones, Charles Horne
Maine History
Reviews of the following books: The Voyage of Archangell: James Rosier's Account of the Waymouth Voyage of 1605, A True Relation by James Rosier; Bates Through the Years: An Illustrated History by Charles E. Clark; New England's Covered Bridges: A Complete Guide by Benjamin D. and June R. Evans; Styles Bridges: Yankee Senator by James J. Kiepper
Comments On The Ship’S Log Kept By Captain Ephraim Jones Of A Voyage From Falmouth To Bermuda And The Turks Islands,1765, Charles P.M. Outwin
Comments On The Ship’S Log Kept By Captain Ephraim Jones Of A Voyage From Falmouth To Bermuda And The Turks Islands,1765, Charles P.M. Outwin
Maine History
Willis Collection, volume K, rear, Maine Historical Society Collections