Maine Memory Network

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 1 of 2

"Crime & Disaster Crime & Disaster A selection of photographs relating to crime & disaster in the Portland Press Herald Glass Plate Negative…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"… events, and even the names of the prominent business leaders of Lubec who directed the Centennial Committee."

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"It reflects the extent to which Lubec businesses benefitted from the new service. Item donated by Edith Comstock.Lubec Memorial Library Those…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… 1975 • McCurdy Smokehouse is the only remaining business of its kind in U.S. • Sardine plants in Maine dwindled from 48 to 15 1976 • Completion of…"

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"The waterfront was very busy with vessels carrying construction materials arriving daily. As a result of the expansion a telephone line, bridge over…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1890-1900 - Page 3 of 3

"By this time, more women now worked outside the home. Positions such as store clerks, telephonists, office clerks, secretaries, and typists were…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1930-1940 - Page 2 of 4

"Jessie Franklin Turner was one of the many women who, from the beginnings of the American fashion industry in the 1920s, found opportunities in…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Fabric Adaptive Reuse

"… and new dresses required many yards of fabric, women were familiar with the custom of either themselves or their dressmakers altering and updating…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"By the mid-twentieth century, the Ryder’s Cove business establishments no longer functioned, and summer residents began to shop at the Durkee…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1900-1910 - Page 1 of 3

"The alternate fashion, compatible with women's increasing participation in the workforce and outdoor activities, favored a more naturally curved…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Themed Image Galleries

"… and dress collection consists of middle class women's wear, primarily dresses. There are gaps in representation, but as the examples in the…"

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

"Sometimes a group of women clubbed together to make the purchase and share. On the one hand, machine sewing mitigating the endless hours women spent…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Our Resources

"… by Second Baptist Church, 2003. ORGANIZATIONS AND BUSINESSES Baptist Sewing Circle, PO Box 43, 491 Pendleton Point Road, 734.2022 Boardman Cottage…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 2 of 3

"By 1800 women's formal, stiff wide skirted cumbersome gowns had disappeared. In their stead was something totally different: simple high waisted…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - About Us

"… Schools (Education), Summer Resorts (Recreation), Businesses/Cottage Industries (Land Use), Water Transportation (Transportation), and Early…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"It's wharf was busy transporting passengers and cargo to the mid-section of the island. Hewes Point consisted of a steamboat wharf, two dozen small…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Livery stables were very busy places in those times, frequently called upon by summer residents. Carriages, wagons, buckboards, sleighs, and…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1920-1930 - Page 2 of 3

"Historically women's legs were always covered, and out of the common gaze. As skirt lengths rose, neutral, light gray and flesh colored stockings…"

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

"… sold at Felix Dress Shop, specializing in "women's wearing apparel," which operated in Portland at 16 Forest Ave for just over forty years."

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

"1888Maine Historical Society Women wore bustle supports of various shapes and sizes. Some were separate items such as half cage crinolines, tied on…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 1 of 4

"For many women, a silk dress was an investment, a best dress for Sunday, or for special occasions. Looked after, often stored away as they moved past…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 4 of 4

"… dresses in Claude Monet’s 1866-67 painting titled Women in the Garden. Another white organdie, a ball dress, with short frill sleeves, boat neck…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid Twentieth Century

"… 19th century collection, to one dominated by women's wear from the 1870s to the 1930s. Although, despite this focus, the featured mid twentieth…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1910-1920 - Page 1 of 2

"… surviving examples, it appears that stylish women everywhere in Maine, from those in the blueberry territory of downeast Cherryfield, to southern…"