Keywords: Imported clothing
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block
"… office in the building until 1891 and a men's clothing store from 1892-1907. Then came the Shelter Institute and Woodbutcher tools from 1991-1999…"
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"Also, steamboats were used for shipping food, lumber and clothes that were not on the railroad out of Lincoln to the rest of the towns and cities on…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington
"Shipbuilders needed clothes, gloves, boots and more, and they turned to Sears Roebuck for affordable clothing."
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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…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland
"… established here in 1851 and Dunn's Store sold clothes, hardware and food. There was a gristmill and a blacksmith shop."
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Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street
"… and the awning on the building appears to say, "Clothing, Hats, Capes". David T. Stinson (1815-1873) was the son of David Stinson Sr."
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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."
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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s
"In the tunnel were reportedly old clothes and other items which may have been used to disguise the slaves as they made their way to Canada."
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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…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle
"The potato became so important that in 1913 Thomas Phair and other leading Presque Isle businessmen convinced the state legislature to fund the…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture
"… overalls, Aunt Lydia’s carpet thread, bolts of cloth, lamp chimneys, medicines and tooth powder. On the other side: cracker barrels, cheese wheels…"
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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…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview
"… and Bath Department Store), several men’s clothing stores and beauty parlors, many restaurants and a number of jewelry stores added to the…"
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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