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Item 22804

Ricker College paper weight, Houlton, ca. 1975

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1975 Location: Houlton Media: Metam and marble

Item 13825

Guess-Your-Weight, Oxford County Fair, ca. 1947

Contributed by: Norway Historical Society Date: circa 1947 Location: Norway; Paris Media: Photographic print

Item 12303

Kitchen Scale, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1890 Location: Brunswick Media: Steel, paint

Online Exhibits

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San Life: the Western Maine Sanatorium, 1928-1929

Merle Wadleigh of Portland, who was in his mid 20s, took and saved photographs that provide a glimpse into the life of a tuberculosis patient at the Western Maine Sanatorium in Hebron in 1928-1929.

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Mt. Katahdin and Granger, Stetson, ca. 1906

The World's Largest Oxen

Named for the two largest things in Maine at the turn of the 20th century, Mt. Katahdin and Granger of Stetson, were known as the Largest Oxen in the World. Unable to do farm work because of their size, they visited fairs and agricultural events around the Northeast.

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Dress made by Martha Willey Riley, Cherryfield, ca. 1912

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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Sarah E.Thomas' silk pin tucked dress, Portland, ca. 1905

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

"Linings were often made of less costly weighted silk. Weighting was a treatment that helped reduce the price of silk, but caused it to quickly flake…"

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 3 of 3

"1940-1950 Summer weight suit, ca. 1948Maine Historical Society Limited French fashion influence during the war had the effect of encouraging…"

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Academy Street ice damage, Hallowell, 1998

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Day 2

"12. Millions of trees were brought down by the weight of ice. 13. 35,000 wooden utility poles were crushed and crumpled by the weight of the ice. 14."