Keywords: Luxury
Item 105690
Lamé dress with beaded details, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1930
Location: Portland
Media: silk, glass beads
This record contains 11 images.
Item 148523
Blue velvet opera coat, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1920
Media: Silk, fur, beads
This record contains 5 images.
Item 151567
J. B. Brown town houses on Neal St., Portland, 1906
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1906 Location: Portland Client: J. B. Brown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Item 151568
J. B. Brown town houses on West St., Portland, 1910
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1910 Location: Portland Client: J. B. Brown & Sons Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
From the last decades of the nineteenth century through about the 1920s, vacationers were attracted to large resort hotels that promised a break from the noise, crowds, and pressures of an ever-urbanizing country.
Exhibit
Maine's frozen rivers and lakes provided an economic opportunity. The state shipped thousands of tons of ice to ports along the East Coast and to the West Indies that workers had cut and packed in sawdust for shipment or later use.
Site Page
"… the Civil War and Reconstruction Era, ice was a luxury. Once citizens financially recovered from the hardship of the war, perishable items such as…"
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 1 of 3
"… skilled, intensive hand labor, and an extreme luxury afforded by only the wealthiest individuals."
Story
Maine and the Atlantic World Slave Economy
by Seth Goldstein
How Maine's historic industries are tied to slavery
