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Historical Items

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Item 9197

Woman in costume, Montpelier, Thomaston, 1931

Contributed by: The General Henry Knox Museum Date: 1931 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print

Item 105666

Annie Moriarty's colbalt blue dress, Lewiston, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Lewiston Media: silk, cotton, metal
This record contains 12 images.

Item 18245

Centennial Celebration in Baldwin, 1902

Contributed by: Baldwin Historical Society Date: 1902-06-24 Location: Baldwin Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age

"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.

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

Dressing Up, Standing Out, Fitting In

Adorning oneself to look one's "best" has varied over time, gender, economic class, and by event. Adornments suggest one's sense of identity and one's intent to stand out or fit in.

Site Pages

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1970-1980 - Page 1 of 3

"… this decade. It was more of a mix and match period retaining much of the 1960s with a superimposition of aspects of other periods, from the…"

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1900-1910 - Page 2 of 3

"… Society Many fashionable silk dresses from this period deteriorate beyond saving because the linings supporting the delicate fabrics fell apart."

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Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 3 of 3

"Eighteenth Century During this period male dress also underwent change. A combination of the eighteenth century English taste for clothes suited to…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

The $ame Band
by Mike Laskey

Maine's punk rock band, 1977

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