Keywords: 1960s dress
Item 105740
Coordinating dress, belt, and scarf ensemble, Portland, ca. 1970
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1970 Location: Portland; Cape Elizabeth Media: nylon, polyester, metal
Item 105809
High waisted printed mini dress, ca. 1970
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1970 Media: polyester
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
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 - 1960-1970 - Page 3 of 3
"… by Laura Ashley's romantic designs, two late 1960s bridesmaid dresses offer a contrast between ongoing traditional and newer more casual wedding…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 1 of 3
""Felix" occasion dress, ca. 1965Maine Historical Society Expensive establishment old style couture or similar high style-type clothing still…"
Story
Saturday Evening Dances at the Westport Town Hall
by Deborah G. Greenleaf
Fond Memories of Westport Island
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
