Keywords: hook and eye
Item 105507
Cape with burnoose hood, ca. 1865
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1865
Media: wool, cotton, mother of pearl, metal
This record contains 7 images.
Item 105694
Elizabeh McNeil Butts wool cloak, Lewiston, ca. 1903
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1903
Location: Lewiston
Media: wool, metal
This record contains 7 images.
Exhibit
Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye
The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.
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.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Industry on Bombahook
"… named it after the city of Bombay India, and the hook in the Kennebec River just below the point. There is no documentation for either theory."
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Plum skirt suit with cape, ca. 1945 - Page 1 of 3
"The hem is finished with stitched ribbon, and the waist has interior straps. The blazer, with strong shoulders and three self-covered buttons…"
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
Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall
Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.
