Keywords: 1602
Item 105068
King James VI Scottish half sovereign coin, Richmond Island, 1602
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1602 Location: Richmond Island Media: Gold
Item 66516
Aerial view of the mouth of the Kennebunk River, Kennebunkport, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1938 Location: Kennebunkport Media: Linen texture postcard
Exhibit
Fashionable Maine: early twentieth century clothing
Maine residents kept pace with the dramatic shift in women’s dress that occurred during the short number of years preceding and immediately following World War I. The long restrictive skirts, stiff collars, body molding corsets and formal behavior of earlier decades quickly faded away and the new straight, dropped waist easy-to-wear clothing gave mobility and freedom of movement in tune with the young independent women of the casual, post-war jazz age generation.
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"… de Champlain noted and mapped the area from 1602-1606. John Smith passed through in 1614. The men credited with European settlement of the area…"
