Maine Memory Network

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 - 1950-1960 - Page 1 of 4

"… some degree, and is most recognizable in the mid 1950s teenage girl's, almost ubiquitous, full skirts and dresses worn with bobby socks and penny…"

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

"While French fashions inspired design, fashion conscious U.S. consumers began to recognize and appreciate the work of American designers such as…"

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

"In more fashionable quarters, before the new fashion blazed its trail, European and American designers experimented, producing some exotic creations."

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."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Telephone communication

"… picture is of Lillian "Lil” Smith taken in the 1950s. Lil and her husband were the telephone operators during that time."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… Harbor Library Later on in the early 1950s, Richard would build a ranch-style home next to this garage at 8 Asticou Way informally named "The Red…"

Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"(The U.R.K.P. was disbanded in the early 1950s). The Third Battalion was located in Calais with its Company #11 in Eastport."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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