Maine Memory Network

45 Portland Street, Bridgton, ca. 1938

Contributed by: Bridgton Historical Society Date: circa 1938 Location: Bridgton Media: Ink on paper, photograph

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Post Office Square, State and Harlow Streets, Bangor, ca. 1949

Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: circa 1949 Location: Bangor Media: Postcard

22 Cottage Street, Portland, 1924

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

34-36 Atlantic Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Lucinda C Sears Style: Colonial Revival Use: Dwelling - Single family

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.

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"In 1941, Sears opened its only small-town national chain branch on the north side of Centre Street, despite the small facility and limited parking."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"Newberry; F. W. Woolworth; W. T. Grant; Sears Roebuck; First National Foods; and the A&P self-serve store."

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

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