Maine Memory Network

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

"Parallel with these developments in the late 1950s to early 1960s, the custom of girls and young women dressing or wearing hair and make-up like…"

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

"… MHS collection may be late 1940s possibly early 1950s interpretations of the new "pencil" skirt suit."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 1 of 3

"… the youth culture that had its beginning in the 1950s and manifested itself in the 1960s as a period of divisiveness, the generation gap, social…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 2 of 4

"The 1950s were not only the years of the "New Look," and rebellion, they were the years when new fabrics made of new synthetic fibers began to appear."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 2 of 3

"… may date from the late 1940s or into the early 1950s. From the collar and lapel neckline, there is a front closure with four sets of three buttons…"

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

"… couture designs was an old practice, in the 1950s some U.S. manufacturers contracted and made arrangements with French designers, including Dior…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 1 of 13

"Even as late as the 1950s farmers hauled potatoes to starch factories. Former potato farmer Larry Park talks about starch factories in Presque Isle."

Mount Desert Island Historical Society

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Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2

"… Bakery and Koritsky's Clothing Store in the 1950s. To the left is Elm Street businesses. Notice the Methodist Church in the background."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"… reported that when he was growing up in the 1950s his family only went to Bar Harbor once or twice a year, mostly to buy school clothes."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… was originally a sheet-metal manufacturer in the 1950s, but eventually evolved into a heating business and then an automobile dealership."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… a building boom in the city that lasted into the 1950s. In addition, Presque Isle became Aroostook County’s first city in 1940."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… gazebo, which had been torn down in the 1950s, was reconstructed by volunteers led by James Stilphen."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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