Maine Memory Network

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 3 of 3

"… taste for clothes suited to an active country life, fine quality English dark wool broadcloth, and skilled tailoring led to the rise of superior…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Northern Threads: Two centuries of dress at Maine Historical Society - Page 2 of 3

"Clothing as a primary resource contextualizes social, economic, and environmental aspects of everyday life and shared experiences."

Historic Clothing Collection - Early Twentieth Century

"… well positioned to enjoy a sophisticated social life, and afford fine dressmaking to go with it. The family moved from Ontario, Canada, to Lewiston…"

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

"… very different women, from two different walks of life, demonstrate the democratic, equalizing nature of modern fashion, as well as the extent of…"

Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 2 of 2

"… and a segment of Maine inhabitants with life styles beyond the Maine average. Margaret Payson's Delphic-style gown, Portland, ca."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 1 of 3

"… fabric and hospital bedding, to parachutes and life rafts. Wool and the new synthetic, nylon, were reserved for the war effort leaving cotton…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Jacob Abbott

"… from Hallowell Academy, Jacob attended Bowdoin College. While at Bowdoin, he added the second T to the end of his name to avoid being called Jacob…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Olof Nylander, 1864-1943

"… employed by the Canadian government and several colleges and universities to do this same type of work or to act as a guide."

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"… School and attended Deerfield Academy and Bowdoin College. Upon completing Bowdoin in 1937, he enrolled in the Department of Architecture at the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

"… he was a trustee of Waterville (now Colby) College, a trustee and overseer of Bowdoin College, principal owner of Maine’s first cotton mill in…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"… in Portland in 1807, he graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825 and taught modern languages there from 1829 to 1835."

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 2 of 3

"… he was a trustee of Waterville (now Colby) College and a trustee and overseer of Bowdoin College."

Blue Hill, Maine - Jonathan Fisher: Unlocking the Person Beyond the Parson

"… capacity, offered to send him to Harvard college. The offer, which Jonathan accepted, was conditional on an agreement that he would study to become…"

Early Maine Photography - The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection

"As a teenager in high school and college, he researched the genealogies of his and related families."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 1 of 4

"The journals of the first settled minister, Jonathan Fisher, are a valuable insight into the early days of Blue Hill life."

Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"… from the Medical School of Maine at Bowdoin College in 1823 and practiced medicine in Portland with his father Stephen Cummings."

Early Maine Photography - War - Page 1 of 2

"… the Revolution, John Sawyer entered Dartmouth College, graduating in 1786. Ordained in 1787, he preached in his native Oxford for the next nine…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"… Academy, Andover Mass, and later attended Bowdoin College, graduating in 1882. He married Annie Smith in Bedford Mass."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Bob Marley

"… followed his parent's wishes for him to graduate college and lead a financially successful life. Marley attended the University of Maine at…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"… sent to seminaries, high schools, and commercial colleges. After a number of years a new district, Number Eight, was located on the Bluff."

Historic Hallowell - Values and Charity

"… to Hallowell Academy, all graduated from Bowdoin College, all studied theology at Andover, and all became ministers and teachers."

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 2 of 2

"… Madawaska Training School and later Beals College where she excelled. She went into civil service in 1923 with the Bureau of Weights and Measures…"

Lincoln, Maine - Gary Gordon

"Instead of going off for further education in college, he chose to serve on his own free will. He was a man from Lincoln that went to fight for the…"

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

"… main family home Hilltop House to help fund his college and post-graduate education and the college education of his brother Ralph."