Keywords: exotic
Item 9342
Admiral and Maud, Carrabassett, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Stanley Museum Date: circa 1905 Location: Carrabassett Media: Photographic print
Item 82320
Capt. Samuel Hadlock Jr., London, 1824
Contributed by: Acadia National Park Date: 1824 Location: Cranberry Isles; London Media: Painted, wood, gilt
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.
Exhibit
Desserts have always been a special treat. For centuries, Mainers have enjoyed something sweet as a nice conclusion to a meal or celebrate a special occasion. But many things have changed over the years: how cooks learn to make desserts, what foods and tools were available, what was important to people.
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 2 of 3
"… American designers experimented, producing some exotic creations. In this vein, there are two American examples in the collection."
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1970-1980 - Page 3 of 3
"Laurent’s 1970s, exotic, richly embellished fashions inspired by an eclectic mix of embroidered ethnic dress culled from regions worldwide."
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down