Maine Memory Network

Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 2 of 2

"In this way objects in the MHS Historic Dress Collection make an invaluable contribution to our understanding of domestic, social and many other…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Themed Image Galleries

"There are gaps in representation, but as the examples in the overview make clear from the eighteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Maine's…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1930-1940 - Page 1 of 4

"The simple dress features a front closure with four large flat pearl buttons, waist level buckled belt, and a straight skirt with a single neat pleat…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1970-1980 - Page 2 of 3

"… there is a red high waisted full length long dress with a matching two pocket blazer style jacket; and a dusty rose long dress with three button…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 1 of 4

"… in the late 1950s to early 1960s, the custom of girls and young women dressing or wearing hair and make-up like their mothers, faded away."

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid Twentieth Century

"Mid Twentieth Century Nylon dress with red accents, ca. 1955Maine Historical Society There is little in the collection to tell of the War…"

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

"… of Asian raw silk for making silk yarn encouraged dress silk manufacturing, which became well established in the 1880s."

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century

"Phebe Cole Townsend's 'electric' blue dress, Alexander, ca. 1863Maine Historical Society Industrial developments made significant contributions to…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Annie Martin, Bangor, 1864

"… in the illustrated numbered "2," she was making a dress for her doll, telling the cat she could not pick it up because she was busy."

John Martin: Expert Observer - "A Society Lady of 1889," Bangor

"… Society lady of the present day. The material for dress in this case is not costly but shows that the wearer is a person of fine taste which a poor…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1870 to 1900

"Both feature high face encircling collars make room for voluminous sleeve trends. Also allowing for fuller sleeves, is a London made cream light wool…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Lewiston Journal article on Katahdin Iron Works

"It describes the process of making pig iron and gives some background about the Kathadin Iron Charcoal Co. and the area where it was located."

Life on a Tidal River - Fashion of the '40s

"… girdles were gone and people had to begin to make dresses and other suits with an adjustable waist to guarantee the items fit individuals for a…"

Historic Hallowell - History of The Cotton Mill

"… would make anything that was made of fabric like dresses and lace curtains. Cotton mills in the north had to buy the supplies when the southern…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrapbook 1: 1885-1899, Katahdin Iron Works, Silver Lake Hotel

"… or others wrote, provides details about the iron-making process, the business end of iron making, and the Silver Lake Hotel, which served both…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Bangor Commercial article on World's Fair contest

"John Martin and Miss Mabel Martin leave on this morning’s train for the World’s Fair, making a short stop at Portland on the way.""

John Martin: Expert Observer - Old Bill, gundalow crossing Penobscot River, Bangor, 1846

"… a way to get Old Bill on a ferry gundalow by "making the horses head fast and shocking the wheels." The illustration is on page 234 of the journal…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Rustic furniture, Bangor, 1865

"He reported that he "employed my vacant hours in making a rustick armed chair, a Gothic oval chair a Sofa and Grape trellis." Martin, an accountant…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Millerite camp meeting, Orrington, 1844

"He returned to the site in 1864 before making his sketch. He wrote that the pulpit was on the western slope of a hill and that there was space to…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Republican Wigwam, Bangor, 1872

"Hurrah!! Hurrah!! Whora Whora the flag that makes us free, So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the Sea While were were marching through Georgia."…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Site Navigation Tips

"We have used our judgment in making some of these lower case. He, like others of his era, often made what seem like large commas at the end of…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Dancing Fraternity, City of Bangor, 1868

"… ourselves to the rules of etiquette which will make our manners polite and easy." One of the bylaws is especially revealing."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"(Sometimes the dress of choice would be selected, only to find the belt missing, causing a delay of several minutes while the vendor frantically…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal

"… profit from the information and guard against making the mistakes others had made. Martin lived during a momentous time in the Bangor area."