Keywords: Peck's Department Store
Item 1164
Peck's department store, Lewiston, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print
Item 6941
Lumber yard in Lewiston, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Lewiston Public Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Lewiston Media: Phototransparency
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.
Exhibit
Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1890-1900 - Page 1 of 3
"… new burgeoning city department stores, including Peck's in Lewiston, Libby's in Portland, and in small town dry-goods stores."
Story
Growing up in Lewiston
by Kathy Becvar
Growing up in Lewiston in the 1960s and 1970s.
