Keywords: Sewing
Item 16979
Hand Cranked Sewing Machine, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1870 Location: Houlton Media: Steel
Item 33667
Shaw & Clark Sewing Machine advertisement, Biddeford, 1866
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1866 Location: Biddeford Media: Ink on paper
Item 151579
Waterford Library, Waterford, 1937
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1930–1937 Location: Waterford Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
Settlers' clothing had to be durable and practical to hold up against hard work and winters. From the 1700s to the mid 1800s, the women of Maine learned to sew by making samplers.
Exhibit
Art of the People: Folk Art in Maine
For many different reasons people saved and carefully preserved the objects in this exhibit. Eventually, along with the memories they hold, the objects were passed to the Maine Historical Society. Object and memory, serve as a powerful way to explore history and to connect to the lives of people in the past.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 1 of 4
"On the other hand, speedier sewing encouraged extra detailing in fashionable garments. In the 1860s and 1870s small thread mills, such as the Haskell…"
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century
"… illustrations, and a variety of handiwork, sewing, crochet and knitting projects. Phebe Cole Townsend's 'electric' blue dress, Alexander, ca…"
Story
Story of the "little nun"
by Felicia Garant
My grandmother made a nun's outfit for me
Story
Portland in the 1940s
by Carol Norton Hall
As a young woman in Portland during WWII, the presence of servicemen was life changing.
