Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Years on Mt. Desert Island

"… preserving the food, spinning and weaving the clothing, cooking and tending the children. The first physician came to Mt. Desert Island in 1799."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"… the ease of providing food, shelter, and clothing for their families. The surrounding forests provided wood for building and fuel, berries, and…"

Bangor Historical Society

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Bar Harbor Historical Society

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Washburn-Norlands Living History Center

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"… so cold students had to wear multiple layers of clothing and sometimes even a hat. The oldest boy was appointed the janitor and had to arrive at…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

"… the boards with chunks of chalk and erased with cloth rags. Soon, the slate board was invented and it was then that teachers switched to cylinders…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"… cooking, tending children, washing and mending clothes, skinning and stretching hides, braiding sweetgrass, preparing ash strips, weaving baskets…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777

"… returning with cargoes of flour, bolts of cloth and manufactured goods. Profitable trading necessitated the shipbuilding industry, which later was…"

NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters Historic Site

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Early Maine Photography - MHS Early Maine Photography Collections

"Tintype of man in weather resistant clothing, ca. 1900Maine Historical Society Such methods for organizing photographs was thought to provide…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"How did you get your clothing? My mother made the majority of our clothing. Did your dad work? He was a boat builder so he had to find some other…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"They hunted. They made their clothing at home, beginning with raising the sheep and then weaving the wool."

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 2 of 4

"We are Provided with Rubber cloths 6 x 2 feet, which we lay on at night-or throw over our sholders when it rains."

Otisfield Historical Society

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"There were barber shops, clothing stores and many convenient stores and restaurants. All of these great jobs and opportunities went downhill when the…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… By 1870, Surry was producing goods for the clothing, building, and shipping industries, plus it housed a carding mill, tannery, stave mill, shingle…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… and Japanese folks gathered together in everyday clothes, belting out a moving rendition of a chorus from Aida, accompanied by two or more pianos…"

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… and worked in various enterprises, managing a clothing store for a time in Boston. In 1869 he married Ellen Maria Marston, daughter of the sea…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"By 1880 John Bangs was a clothing manufacturer. Mr. Bangs had a wife, Clara, and three sons, and by 1910 he was a widower, living in Nebraska."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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