Maine Memory Network

Historic Clothing Collection - Gauze evening dress with silk sash, ca. 1865 - Page 1 of 4

"Gauze evening dress with silk sash, ca. 1865 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description An 1867 issue of Peterson's Magazine…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Organdy summer dress, ca. 1863 - Page 1 of 4

"Organdy summer dress, ca. 1863 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description This simple, plain white, unadorned organdy summer…"

Historic Hallowell - Day 8

"… January 14th the storm ended leaving behind ice coated streets, cars, power lines, tree limbs and many houses without heat and power."

Historic Hallowell - History of The Cotton Mill

"The Cotton Mill made jeans, sheeting, coat lining, and prints. At its height in 1866, there were two hundred people working at the mill at one time."

Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"… Peters proudly wears her large fur lined winter coat, an elaborate piece of Victorian clothing that appears to be twice her size."

Early Maine Photography - Family Groups

"… boy’s Napoleonic pose of his other hand in his coat. More straightforward is an ambrotype of Mr. and Mrs."

Lincoln, Maine - Osgood's Store

"… “Cove” room carried daytime and evening dresses, coats, jackets, robes, and hats. Osgood’s did 90 percent of their buying at the Boston and New…"

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"… wanted to go to a famous place to by furs to make coats, hats, and scarves. Silver furs were very popular and there were also red and black furs."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Day 1

"Rain froze on the limbs, coating them in a deep glaze of deadly ice and causing them to fall on utility lines and roads."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Summary Notes

"… hit the East Coast and covered it with an icy coating. The trees, cars, houses and body’s of water covered with ice."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons

"… the extra clothes, blankets, sheets, towels, and coats that were past their prime. Ships were sent down to Boston to collect even more clothes."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"… side.” Burying Point, located near the Burnt Coat Harbor Light Station, is another relic of native land occupation."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders At Play

"… members and windjammer passengers arrive in Burnt Coat Harbor on the nights of the performances to listen to the music."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"Colonel James Swan purchased “Burnt Coat Island” in 1786, three years after the district of Maine became a part of Massachusetts."

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

"is South Carolina. I cut it from the coat of that Col. Bretton of the 6th S.C. Vols. Whom I captured at the Battle of Fair oaks."

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"… to take the steamboat! I will have to button my coat and put on an extra pair of mittens because it’s a long walk to Grandma and Grandpa’s house…"

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

"These early blackboards were made of pine and coated with a mixture of egg whites and carbon from charred potatoes."

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"… Phebe in Her Old Age Phebe wears a black coat in the only photograph we have of her.Surry Historical Society Resources Surry Town Records…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Church on the Hill

"… were beautifully puffed out with crinoline petty coats underneath; the boys looked polished in their new ties, pants, and shiny shoes."

Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 2 of 3

"Mother McAuley modeled the Sisters of Mercy coat of arms on the original Order insignia. Students were housed at the school, and between 1920 and…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"… us, we were agreeably disappointed by seeing the coat tails of the retreating foes, streaming in a horizontal line from their bodies, where their…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"… Historical Society members remember wearing coats and snowsuits their mothers made from the salvaged wool, which was tan or gray on one side and…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… for a light house in 1857, and by 1872 the Burnt Coat Harbor Light Station was in operation. Communication also improved with the advent of the…"