Keywords: Eighteenth Century
Item 105471
Olive Gray's childhood dress, North Yarmouth, ca. 1785
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1785 Location: North Yarmouth Media: Cotton
Item 105476
Bright pink petticoat, ca. 1780
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1780
Media: cotton, wool, linen
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Public education has been a part of Maine since Euro-American settlement began to stabilize in the early eighteenth century. But not until the end of the nineteenth century was public education really compulsory in Maine.
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Westbrook Seminary: Educating Women
Westbrook Seminary, built on Stevens Plain in 1831, was founded to educate young men and young women. Seminaries traditionally were a form of advanced secondary education. Westbrook Seminary served an important function in admitting women students, for whom education was less available in the early and mid nineteenth century.
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Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 3 of 3
"A combination of the eighteenth century English taste for clothes suited to an active country life, fine quality English dark wool broadcloth, and…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 2 of 3
"Eighteenth Century Bright pink petticoat, ca. 1780Maine Historical Society A quilted petticoat of bright pink calamanco (polished wool) with…"
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History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
