Maine Memory Network

Jonathan Fisher self-portrait, Blue Hill, ca. 1824

Contributed by: Jonathan Fisher Memorial, Inc. Date: 1824 Location: Blue Hill Media: Oil on canvas, painting

Catamount, Ohio, 1792

Contributed by: Jonathan Fisher Memorial, Inc. Date: 1792 Location: Blue Hill Media: Watercolor / pen and ink on paper

Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.

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.

Colby College Special Collections

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