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Keywords: 1890

Historical Items

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Item 14093

Eastern Manufacturing Company, Brewer, 1890

Contributed by: Brewer Public Library Date: 1890 Location: Brewer Media: Photographic print

Item 12263

Fire, Caribou, 1890

Contributed by: Caribou Public Library Date: 1890 Location: Caribou Media: Photographic print

Item 12264

Fire in Caribou, 1890

Contributed by: Caribou Public Library Date: 1890 Location: Caribou Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151653

Woodman double house, Portland, 1890

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1890 Location: Portland Client: Horace Woodman Architect: John Calvin Stevens and Albert Winslow Cobb Architects

Item 150448

House for Seth Chandler, Lewiston, 1890

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1890 Location: Lewiston Client: Seth Chandler Architect: George M. Coombs

Item 150463

House for Mrs. Colburn, Lewiston, Lewiston, 1890

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1890 Location: Lewiston Client: Colburn, Architect: George M. Coombs

Online Exhibits

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Aroostook County Railroads

Construction of the Bangor and Aroostook rail lines into northern Aroostook County in the early twentieth century opened the region to tourism and commerce from the south.

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Early Fish Canneries in Brooklin

By the 1900s, numerous fish canneries began operating in Center Harbor, located within the Brooklin community. For over thirty years, these plants were an important factor in the community.

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Rebecca Usher: 'To Succor the Suffering Soldiers'

Rebecca Usher of Hollis was 41 and single when she joined the Union nursing service at the U.S. General Hospital at Chester, Pennsylvania. Her time there and later at City Point, Virginia, were defining experiences of her life.

Site Pages

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 2 of 4

"1870-1890 Between 1860 and 1890, the transitions of skirt style provides a recognizable example of evolving fashions."

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 4 of 4

"1870-1890 Watered silk ensemble, ca. 1888Maine Historical Society Women wore bustle supports of various shapes and sizes."

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1890-1900 - Page 2 of 3

"1890-1900 Jessie Carter's wedding dress, Bath, ca. 1896Maine Historical Society Bedecked with wide satin ribbons, Myra Bradeen Philpot’s…"

My Maine Stories

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Translating 1890 Passamaquoddy Wax Cylinders
by Dwayne Tomah

Dwayne Tomah (Passamaquoddy) discusses the importance of 1890 recordings

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Minik Wallace 1891-1918
by Genevieve LeMoine, The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum

The life of Minik, an Inuit person from Greenland who grew up in New York City.

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Blessing of the Creatures MAINEUSA
by Marty Pottenger

Passamaquoddy "Blessing of the Creatures'' honors the creatures of Maine.