Keywords: 1909
Item 15085
1909 White Steamer, photographed at Seal Cove Auto Museum, ca. 2005
Contributed by: Seal Cove Auto Museum Date: 1909 Location: Seal Cove Media: Metal and Rubber
Item 15177
1909 Corbin, photographed at Seal Cove Auto Museum, ca. 2005
Contributed by: Seal Cove Auto Museum Date: 1909 Location: Seal Cove Media: Metal and Rubber
Item 151682
Etherington cottage, Biddeford, 1909
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1909 Location: Biddeford Client: W. F. Etherington Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Item 150751
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1909 Location: Norway Client: unknown Architect: Coombs and Gibbs Architects
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.
Exhibit
Maine Streets: The Postcard View
Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.
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Old Berwick Historical Society
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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Works Cited
"New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1909. Thompson, Deborah. Bangor, Maine 1769-1914 : an architectural history."
Story
Julia Winters and Life in Lewiston/Auburn, Maine
by Judy Zaccagnini Flynn, granddaughter
6 year old sent to Maine foster home when her parents were unable to care for her
Story
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.