Maine Memory Network

Child's straw hat, New York, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Location: New York Media: straw, lace, grosgrain
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Bald Head Cliff, Ogunquit, ca. 1938

Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1938 Location: Ogunquit Media: Linen texture postcard

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.

Northern Threads: Outerwear, Militia & Cadet uniforms

A themed vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring 19th century outerwear, bonnets, militia and cadet uniforms.

Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"Benefit” Float. A spectator attending the parade wearing a more modestly priced lapel pin, probably sported this stickpin: Centennial stickpin…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Gorham L. Boynton, Bangor, ca. 1867

"… as I have given him very large not very tall wears usually a low crowned straw hat drab or yellow pants & vest sometimes a black coat & sometimes…"

C19 on Pine Point Beach
by Beth, Scarborough

Cancer patient experience during pandemic

Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall

Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.