Maine Memory Network

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

"… quarter length heavier lace overskirt, with a decorative, deeply tabbed hemline. The sleeves are similarly layered."

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

"… practice to categorize garments as textiles or decorative objects of little significance. It is highly likely that the initial MHS accumulation of…"

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"Citizens and businesses were encouraged to decorate windows, and the paper carried a notice entreating anyone who could spare flowers to decorate the…"

Abbe Museum

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Old York Historical Society

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NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters Historic Site

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Early Maine Photography - Occupational

"In an ambrotype, a young man wears an elaborately decorated Masonic vestment and apron (pictured at right)."

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"After brief period of employing the decorative Queen Anne style in the early 1880s, he joined a generation of talented young architects in developing…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"… first time since the beginning of the Pageant, decorators spread a green dye on the ground to give the Ellipse a “fresh” look."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"… added architectural details like mouse toothing, decorative cornices, and decorative brickwork. This striking architecture tends to be found only…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"Their interiors were usually not decorated so royally though. On March 27, 1925, a tragic event occurred. The Bath Opera House had a raging fire."

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 1 of 2

"His citations and decoration along with his burial flag now reside in the Guilford Historical Society Museum."

Guilford, Maine - Guilford Schools

"… were decked out with buntings and other festive decorations for the town of Guilford’s Centennial celebration."

Dyer Library/Saco Museum

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"… fine wrought-iron work, both practical and decorative. There was a second livery in Northeast Harbor, owned by Mr. Atwood and Mr. Burr."

Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"The women decorated the floats and ours was beautiful. John Tyler drove the truck that pulled the float."

Pejepscot Historical Society

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Acadian Archives

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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