Sources and Acknowledgements

 


Sources

References

Bodnar, John. The Transplanted [:] A History of Immigrants in Urban America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.

Bouthillette, Emma R. A Brief History of Biddeford. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2017.

Fairfield, Roy P. Sands, Spindles and Steeples. Portland, Maine: House of Falmouth, 1956.

Gyory, Andrew. Closing the Gate [:] Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Handlin, Oscar. The Uprooted [:] The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that made the American People. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1952.

Judd, Richard W., et.al. Maine [:] The Pine Tree State from Prehistory to the Present. Orono: The University of Maine Press, 1995.

Lee, Erika. At America's Gates [:] Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina, 2005.

Mundy, James H. hard times, hard men [:] Maine and the Irish, 1830-1860. Scarborough, Maine: Harp,  Publications, 1990.

Paper

Libby, Gary. Early Chinese Residents of Biddeford, Me., 2008.

Thesis

O'Brien, Kerry A. (1993). Consuming Interests: Class, Ethnicity, and Consumption in Biddeford, Maine, 1890-1915. Masters, University of Southern Maine.

Journal Articles

Connolly, Michael C. They Change Their Sky: The Irish in Maine. The University of Maine Press, Orono, Maine, 2004.

Tichnor, Daniel J. The Politics of Immigration Control in America. Princeton University Press, 1996.

Whitmore, Allan R. A Guard of Faithful Sentinels: The Know-Nothing Appeal in Maine, 1854-1855. Maine Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. 20, no. 3, Winter, 1981.

Newspapers

Biddeford Daily Journal

Weekly Record and Journal

Union Democrat

Images

McArthur Library Special Collections

Dyer Library/Saco Museum


Acknowledgements

I want to thank Dr. Daniel Soucier, Interim Graduate Coordinator MAIS (Maine Studies Track) for his support and patience throughout the process. I am very grateful.  I thank Mary Holt, a graduate of the Maine Studies Program for telling me about the program which is just what I was looking for. Thanks to Louis Miller, Research and Instructional Librarian at the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education for introducing me to Dennis Delany. Thanks to Nora Ibrahim for reading part of the thesis and Jasmine Moreau for support.  The wonderful McArthur Library Special Collections generously allowed me to use their resources and images. I am grateful for the support of the Osher Map Library staff in particular Jessica Hovey and Kelsey Riordan. And to my husband Mark who supported me throughout with infinite patience. Thank you! 


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