Keywords: Steel fabrication
Item 5943
Portland Company parade float, 1886
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1886 Location: Portland Media: Albumen print
Item 12555
Boat fabrication, Portland Company, 1921
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1921 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
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The mainspring of fashion is the process whereby members of one class imitate the styles of another, who in turn are driven to ever new expedients of fashionable change.
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Paper has shaped Maine's economy, molded individual and community identities, and impacted the environment throughout Maine. When Hugh Chisholm opened the Otis Falls Pulp Company in Jay in 1888, the mill was one of the most modern paper-making facilities in the country, and was connected to national and global markets. For the next century, Maine was an international leader in the manufacture of pulp and paper.
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Guilford, Maine - MANUFACTURING - Page 2 of 2
"Interface Fabrics is the biggest fabric mill in the 20th century. The mill founded flame retardant fabrics in 1974. The mill is over 150 years old."
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 3 of 4
"The cage crinoline made of flexible steel appeared about 1856. As a result, women could walk unencumbered by the layers of heavy petticoats, with…"
