Keywords: Women's clothing and dress
Item 105309
Phebe Cole Townsend's 'electric' blue dress, Alexander, ca. 1863
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1863
Location: Alexander
Media: silk taffeta
This record contains 10 images.
Item 105494
Plaid silk day dress, ca. 1850
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1850
Media: Silk, cotton, brass, glass
This record contains 11 images.
Exhibit
Northern Threads: Civil War-era clothing
An exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads, Part 1," featuring American Civil War civilian and military clothing, 1860 to 1869.
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.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 2 of 2
"This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, MA-30-18-0288-18."
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 1 of 2
"Plain ordinary dress and working clothes worn by the financially less well to do, scarcely survive. Well used, repaired, passed on or repurposed…"
Story
From Chinese Laundress to Mother of the Year
by Dr. Andrea Louie
Toy Len Goon's granddaughter recounts her immigration to the US and becoming Mother of the Year.
Story
Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR
