Keywords: period costumes
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
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.
Site Page
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…"
Site Page
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."
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
