Keywords: bloomers
Item 72836
Girls in bloomers, Farmington State Normal School, ca. 1922
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: circa 1922 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print
Item 109044
Students in gym outfits, Farmington Normal School, 1917
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1917-04-14 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic image
Item 96383
Assessor's Record, 107 Veranda Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: William H. Bloomer Use: Greenhouse
Exhibit
Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.
Exhibit
Maine is home to dozens of summer-long youth camps and untold numbers of day camps that take advantage of water, woods, and fresh air. While the children, counselors, and other staff come to Maine in the summer, the camps live on throughout the year and throughout the lives of many of the campers.
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