Keywords: 1890s clothing
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Historic Clothing Collection - Early Twentieth Century
"… small, but outstanding, group of late-1890s to early 1900s fashionable garments segue this overview into the twentieth century."
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Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1870 to 1900
"… other silk taffeta, are styled to wear over large 1890s sleeves. Both feature high face encircling collars make room for voluminous sleeve trends."
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1890-1900 - Page 2 of 3
"Perhaps the most extreme mid-1890s sleeves are found among the collection’s wedding dresses, one of which is a long trained crisp woven stripe silk…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1890-1900 - Page 1 of 3
"… Portland, ca.1900Maine Historical Society The 1890s are defined by plain skirts, the rapid rise and fall of the sleeve, and the increased…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 4 of 4
"… and trained wedding dresses from the 1880s and 1890s are tributes to remarkable dressmaking skills."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 1 of 13
"… of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad in the 1890s that Aroostook farmers had a more direct route to markets in Boston and New York."
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"… and nearby areas from the 1820s until the 1890s. He called the Journal his "history" and while he provided some later updates, it largely refers to…"
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"… by Edith Comstock.Lubec Memorial Library In the 1890s, as the era of sail was waning, steamships regularly carried passengers and freight from…"
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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview
"… and into relative prosperity in the 1880s and 1890s. At the same time, metal shipbuilding began in Bath with the expansion of Thomas Hyde’s foundry…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle
"… was not immediate and it would take until the 1890s for the economy to be based on one crop: potatoes."
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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