Maine Memory Network

Sears-Roebuck Shoe Factories #3, Springvale, ca. 1912

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1912 Location: Sanford Media: Photographic print

Shoe Factory, Springvale, ca. 1912

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1912 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative

Assessor's Record, 22 Cottage Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Elizabeth Sears Use: Garage & Shop

22 Cottage Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Elizabeth Sears Use: Dwelling - Single family

Sears Roebuck & Company Warehouse, Bangor, 1949-1950

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1949–1950 Location: Bangor Client: Sears Roebuck & Company Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Sears Roebuck Company Service Station, Portland, 1946

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1946 Location: Portland Client: Sears Roebuck and Company Architect: John Howard Stevens John Calvin Stevens II Architects

Fashion for the People: Maine's Graphic Tees

From their humble beginnings as undergarments to today's fashion runways, t-shirts have evolved into universally worn wardrobe staples. Original graphic t-shirts, graphic t-shirt quilts, and photographs trace the 102-year history of the garment, demonstrating how, through the act of wearing graphic tees, people own a part of history relating to politics, social justice, economics, and commemorative events in Maine.

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.

Presque Isle: The Star City - Sears and Roebuck Company Building

"The local Sears and Roebuck building was built in 1947. This building replaced a mail order office. When it was built, the store was the second…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1890-1900 - Page 3 of 3

"… development of, appropriate, comfortable work and sporting attire. By 1900 Sears catalogue offered smart sensible suits with silk lined jackets."

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars