Keywords: Twentieth Maine
Item 4163
Chamberlain and 20th Maine, Gettysburg reunion, 1889
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1889 Location: Gettysburg Media: Photographic print
Item 34733
John Marshall Brown private notebook, 1862-1863
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862–1863 Media: Ink on paper, leather
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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.
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The War was not going well for the Union and in the summer of 1862, when President Lincoln called for an additional 300,000 troops, it was not a surprise to see so many men enlist in an attempt to bring proper leadership into the Army.
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Historic Clothing Collection - Mid Twentieth Century
"The mid twentieth century (1950-1980) clothing at Maine Historical Society is but a small fraction of the Society's overall garment holdings, which…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Early Twentieth Century
"Early Twentieth Century Embellished velvet and silk gown, ca. 1895Maine Historical Society Lewiston's Mary King Scrimgeour's small, but…"
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An enjoyable conference, Portland 2021
by John C. Decker, Danville, Pennsylvania
Some snippets from a 4-day conference by transportation historians in Portland, September 7-11, 2021
