Keywords: 1900s dresses
Item 105678
White batiste cotton dress, Brownville, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1905
Location: Brownville
Media: cotton
This record contains 16 images.
Item 105665
Sarah E.Thomas' silk pin tucked dress, Portland, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1905
Location: Portland
Media: silk, cotton
This record contains 17 images.
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The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History
After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.
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From French Canadians to Franco-Americans
French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1900-1910 - Page 2 of 3
"Thomas’ brown printed silk, shown at the left. With its bloused bodice and back thrust hips this dress illustrates what is called the “S” bend…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Early Twentieth Century
"… bloused-bodice peach and cream leafy print voile dress is labelled "Dunton Robes of Augusta." Suit dress with aquamarine lining, ca."
