Keywords: floral
Item 111511
Floral maxi-dress, Kennebunk, ca. 1972
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1972
Media: cotton, plastic
This record contains 11 images.
Item 105705
Anne F. Wilson's floral print dress, Salem, Massachusetts, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1935
Location: Waterford; Salem
Media: rayon
This record contains 18 images.
Item 151847
Campbell residence, Southwest Harbor, 1979-2015
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1979–2015 Location: Southwest Harbor Clients: Barbara Campbell; Mark Campbell Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates
Exhibit
Settlers' clothing had to be durable and practical to hold up against hard work and winters. From the 1700s to the mid 1800s, the women of Maine learned to sew by making samplers.
Exhibit
Northern Threads: Adaptive reuse
A themed vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring up-cycled and reused historic fabrics.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 1 of 3
"… are made of imported, probably English, woven floral silks. Such textiles were the product of highly skilled, intensive hand labor, and an extreme…"
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Annie Martin as zephyr, Bangor, 1866
"… of 26 girls who participated in Solon Wilder's floral concert on Monday, July 2, 1866. They sang a song that began "Pretty little zephyrs we…"
Story
Rug Hooking Project with a Story
by Marilyn Weymouth Seguin
My grandmother taught me the Maine craft of rug hooking when I was a child.
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
