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Historic Clothing Collection - Lace and fringe trimmed walking dress, ca. 1865 - Page 1 of 4

"The bodice is trimmed with machine-made blue fringe, knotted at the header, and black machine-made lace at the neck, peplum waist (short, gathered…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"12 machine. Room also was required to house new super calenders. These went into production in 1948."

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1930-1940 - Page 4 of 4

"… rayon full length georgette evening dress with machine lace detailing and featuring the same striking wide panel of machine lace inset at the…"

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 1 of 4

"… Memorial Library After the Civil War, sewing machines reached the professional dressmaking and home sewing market. They were expensive."

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Historic Hallowell - Kennebec Wire Company

"Wire mills still exist today, but workers use high-tech machines to cut the wire and shrink it to a certain diameter."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 4 of 4

"10 Machine in 1964. No. 15 Paper Machine would come on line in August 1980. These added paper production capabilities were necessary to bolster all…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 2 of 2

"The Company operates a fully integrated pulp and paper facility with three tissue machines and two paper machines in Lincoln, Maine.”"

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Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century

"Ichabod Washburn, also of Massachusetts, developed wire to make sewing machine needles, and spring steel wire for hoop skirts and bustle supports."

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Historic Clothing Collection - Organdy summer dress, ca. 1863 - Page 1 of 4

"While the seams on the skirt are machine stitched, the details on the bodice were worked by hand. The dress dates between 1860 and 1865, a…"

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Historic Hallowell - Energy

"Some people might have even had ovens.. The machines in factories affected people a lot. Machines were replacing jobs that people had."

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Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"Webber, Sr., an individual partner The Boston Flint Paper Company, Whiting Mill, Machine Shop, and the Slate & Plaster Mill operated along the…"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Artists and Inventors of Biddeford

"Shaw & Clark Sewing Machine, Biddeford, ca. 1865McArthur Public Library In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the in-migration of people from…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"Each machine made bags of various sizes. The Flat Bag Department made bags for flour, groceries, clothing, confectioneries, and bread in more than 35…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"The first paper machine went into production on December 21, 1901. By February, 1902, all four paper machines were in operation and producing about…"

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Ste. Agathe Historical Society

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Historic Hallowell - The Fuller Foundry

"… believed that in all departments they should attempt excellence. It closed because there were new machines that took over to make the iron parts."

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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Iron Foundry

"… the Hallowell Cotton Mill with parts for the machines when they were broken. The Hallowell Cotton Mill had a blacksmith shop located on site with…"

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Historic Hallowell - Ship Parts

"… by hand (until the invention of the sewing machine.) Anchors were commonly made of stone or iron and took up to a year to craft."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 2 of 5

"The “digger man” was the person who drove the machine that would dig up the potatoes. The potato truck had full and empty barrels on the back of it."

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"The G-men were closing in on Brady and Shaffer fast. Machine guns were still pelting the street with bullets."

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Salmon Brook Historical Society

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

"One is a combination of crochet and machine lace medallions, and the second a darned filet-type cotton lace."

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Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Theater

"The company bought the machines to play movies in 1904, but they didn’t put them in until 1923. When they installed the machines in the new building…"

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Historic Hallowell - The Fireman's Musters in Hallowell

"… who owned cars or some motorized, old, mechanical machine. Most contests were between teams of firemen."