Keywords: Mother of the Bride
Item 111408
Mother-of-the-Bride ensemble, South Portland, ca. 1969
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1969 Location: Portland Media: polyester, nylon, acetate, metal
Item 105710
Adeline Rines' georgette gown, Portland, ca. 1941
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1941 Location: Portland Media: silk, rayon, cotton
Exhibit
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
Exhibit
Chansonetta Stanley Emmons: Staging the Past
Chansonetta Stanley Emmons (1858-1937) of Kingfield, Maine, experimented with the burgeoning artform of photography. Starting in 1897, Emmons documented the lives of people, many in rural and agricultural regions in Maine and around the world. Often described as recalling a bygone era, this exhibition features glass plate negatives and painted lantern slides from the collections of the Stanley Museum in Kingfield on deposit at Maine Historical Society, that present a time of rapid change, from 1897 to 1926.
Site Page
"In addition, women spoke and traded with English colonists and could become informed, opinionated participants in issues of land rights."
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 3 of 3
"… 1800, young Eliza Southgate wrote home urging her mother to “please send my spotted muslin.” And, as the book Agreeable Situations (Brick Store…"
Story
Reverend Thomas Smith of First Parish Portland
by Kristina Minister, Ph.D.
Pastor, Physician, Real Estate Speculator, and Agent for Wabanaki Genocide
Story
The stories my parents told
by Henry Gartley
Stories from my immigrant parents, WWII, and my love of history.
