Keywords: Women walking
Item 105502
Lace and fringe trimmed walking dress, ca. 1865
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1865 Media: silk, cotton, horsehair, lace
Item 104796
Women walking amongst clothing outlets on Congress Street, Portland, ca. 1922
Do you know who these people are?
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1922 Location: Portland Media: Glass negative
Exhibit
Westbrook Seminary: Educating Women
Westbrook Seminary, built on Stevens Plain in 1831, was founded to educate young men and young women. Seminaries traditionally were a form of advanced secondary education. Westbrook Seminary served an important function in admitting women students, for whom education was less available in the early and mid nineteenth century.
Exhibit
Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Lace and fringe trimmed walking dress, ca. 1865 - Page 1 of 4
"Lace and fringe trimmed walking dress, ca. 1865 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description After the Civil War…"
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4
"… was Rosemary Ranck, who at some point in 1975, walked into McCurdy’s. There she photographed two workers in the Brining Room who have been…"
Story
Childhood Memories of Learning to Swim on Rangeley Lake
by Betty C.
Betty's two older sisters taught her how to swim on Rangeley Lake.
Story
The Point
by Norma K. Salway
In the summer, on the eastern shore of Songo, kids dove from a leaning tree
