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Item 35334

The Very Rev. Msgr. Thomas M. Nelligan, Old Town, ca. 1960

Contributed by: John Bapst Memorial High School Date: circa 1960 Location: Old Town Media: Photographic print

Item 22528

Llewelyn Powers' form 31, Bangor, 1863

Contributed by: Cary Library Date: 1863-09-01 Location: Bangor Media: Ink on paper

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Item 16406

Edwin T. Booth as Hamlet, ca. 1870

Contributed by: Stanley Museum Date: circa 1870 Location: New York Media: Photographic print

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Nursing students, Eastern Maine General Hospital, ca. 1898

One Hundred Years of Caring -- EMMC

In 1892 five physicians -- William H. Simmons, William C. Mason, Walter H. Hunt, Everett T. Nealey, and William E. Baxter -- realized the need for a hospital in the city of Bangor had become urgent and they set about providing one.

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Mary King Scrimgeour dress, Lewiston, ca. 1895

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.

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Dress made by Martha Willey Riley, Cherryfield, ca. 1912

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.