Keywords: period dress 1921
Item 10721
Contributed by: Abbot Historical Society Date: 1921 Location: Abbot 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
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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.
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Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.
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