Keywords: Wedding Day
Item 100238
George & Lura Crocker, Wedding, St. Albans, 1912
Contributed by: St. Albans Historical Society Date: 1912-12-04 Location: St. Albans Media: Photographic print
Item 105303
Mary Lewis' wedding day cape, Cousins Island, ca. 1773
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1773 Location: Yarmouth Media: wool, silk
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Dressing Up, Standing Out, Fitting In
Adorning oneself to look one's "best" has varied over time, gender, economic class, and by event. Adornments suggest one's sense of identity and one's intent to stand out or fit in.
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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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John Martin: Expert Observer - John and Clara Martin wedding hack, Bangor, 1850
"… of the hack that transported them on their wedding day. He wrote, "This hack cost a thousand dollars and was owned by Mess Shaw & Billings and was…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1900-1910 - Page 3 of 3
"1900-1910 Margaret A. McGuire's wedding dress, Portland, 1909Maine Historical Society Detail of McGuire wedding dress X Gold…"
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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
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Florence Ahlquist Link's WWII service in the WAVES
by Earlene Ahlquist Chadbourne
Florence Ahlquist, age 20, was trained to repair the new aeronautical cameras by the US Navy in WWII