Keywords: Clothes lines
Item 75158
Clothes lines and reflection, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Media: Photo negative
Item 20739
Camp on Madawaska Lake, T16R4, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Stockholm Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: T16 R4 WELS Media: Photographic print
Item 36398
60 Pine Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Earle M Haskell Use: Garage
Item 36829
43 Clark Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Mary Genevieve Foley Use: Dwelling - Single family
Exhibit
Northern Threads: Civil War-era clothing
An exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads, Part 1," featuring American Civil War civilian and military clothing, 1860 to 1869.
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.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 1 of 3
"A new breed of young designers burst on the scene producing clothing to suit the new burgeoning youth-oriented market."
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 3 of 3
"… of affordable American designed, well-fitting clothing for college girls, women’s wear, and casual wear for every occasion and activity."
Story
Sister Madeleine D’Anjou: Many detours lead to a rewarding life
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
What a journey! Sister Maddie says that "God writes straight on crooked lines."
Story
Growing up DownEast
by Darrin MC Mclellan
Stories of growing up Downeast
