Maine Memory Network

Hand made steel hook, Stockholm. ca. 1940

Contributed by: Stockholm Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Location: Stockholm Media: Iron

Home-made pulphook, St. Francis, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Presque Isle Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Saint Francis; Presque Isle Media: Metal

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.

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.

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"The worn lags were not discarded, though. Pulp hooks, barrel hoists, and even knives could be made from worn digger lags."