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LC Subject Heading: Textile industry

Historical Items

These results include photographs, documents, letters, paintings, artifacts, and many other kinds of Maine related items from collections around the state and elsewhere.

Item 35530

Embroidery Mill, Alfred, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Parsons Memorial Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Alfred Media: Phototransparency

Item 36592

Pepperell Mills, Biddeford, ca. 1894

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1894 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 36606

Interior courtyard at the Pepperell Mills, Biddeford, ca. 1894

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1894 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 78960

Woolen Mill, Somesville, ca. 1850

Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: circa 1850 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print

Item 103874

Pepperell Mill #3 brick tunnel, Biddeford, 2015

Contributed by: Biddeford Mills Museum Date: circa 1854 Location: Biddeford Media: Digital Image

Item 9537

Letter from Clark Stanley to C.C. Woolcot about bobbins, 1829

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1829-03-22 Location: Waterville; Somersworth Media: Ink on paper

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Item 18715

Allen Winslow letter to brother Burton Winslow, 1905

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1905 Location: Auburn; Biddeford Media: Ink on paper

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Item 18823

Spinning room, Haskell Silk Company, Westbrook, 1907

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1907 Location: Westbrook Media: Ink on paper

Item 18824

Warping silk, Haskell Silk Company, 1907

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1907 Location: Westbrook Media: Ink on paper

Item 53367

Saco-Lowell Banquet, Saco, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: circa 1940 Location: Saco; Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 103932

Christmas party at Central Theater, Biddeford, ca. 1948

Contributed by: Biddeford Mills Museum Date: circa 1955 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 103941

Saco-Lowell apprentice banquet, Biddeford, 1938

Contributed by: Biddeford Mills Museum Date: 1938 Location: Biddeford Media: Photograph Print

Item 4198

Lady Pepperell Mill, Biddeford, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 6025

E.T. Burrowes Co., Portland, ca. 1923

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1923 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 6739

Canal Street, Lewiston, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Lewiston Media: ink on paper

Item 7177

Mill area in Lewiston, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Lewiston Public Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Lewiston Media: Phototransparency

Item 7247

Lincoln Mill workers, Lewiston, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Lewiston Public Library Date: circa 1880 Location: Lewiston Media: Phototransparency

Item 7809

Lockwood Cotton Mills, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Waterville Media: Stereograph

Item 8976

Temporary dam across back channel, Skowhegan, 1902

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: 1902 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print

Item 9004

Bailey Oilcloth Factory, Skowhegan, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1890 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print

Item 9059

Maine Spinning Company mill, Skowhegan, ca. 1925

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1925 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print

Item 9667

Canal and Bates Mill from Wiseman Bridge, Lewiston, ca. 1980

Contributed by: Lewiston Public Library Date: circa 1980 Location: Lewiston Media: Phototransparency

Item 9668

Bates Mill #5, Lewiston, ca. 1980