Keywords: Tannin
Item 105299
The Tannery, New Limerick, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1895 Location: New Limerick; Dexter Media: Large Format Negative
Item 9901
Wantage Rule fitted into a box, 1720
Contributed by: Davistown Museum Date: 1720 Location: Berwick Media: Boxwood, brass, ribbon
Exhibit
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.
