Keywords: Dress boots
Item 111226
Black side-lace half boots, Portland, ca. 1840
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1840 Media: silk, leather, cotton
Item 76976
Inuit man aboard 'Bowdoin,' 1947
Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1947 Location: Thule Media: Transparency
Exhibit
Dressing Up, Standing Out, Fitting In
Adorning oneself to look one's "best" has varied over time, gender, economic class, and by event. Adornments suggest one's sense of identity and one's intent to stand out or fit in.
Exhibit
Northern Threads: Early Republic era Fashion dolls
A themed exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring Early Repulic-era (ca.1780-1820) fashion dolls.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Alonzo E. Raynes, Bangor, 1849
"The form of the cap is exact, the outlines of the coat and boots very near. his rifile was encased to the lock his valise I carried to the exchange…"
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 7, pages 114-134
"… Martin Annie Martin Hoop skirts Women's hats, boots Women drinking John thomas Thomas McAloon Nellie Chapman Cornelius Driscoll Cornelius Sullivan…"
Story
Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall
Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.
Story
Florence Ahlquist Link's WWII service in the WAVES
by Earlene Ahlquist Chadbourne
Florence Ahlquist, age 20, was trained to repair the new aeronautical cameras by the US Navy in WWII
