Maine Memory Network

Guilford, Maine - MANUFACTURING - Page 2 of 2

"Interface Fabrics is the biggest fabric mill in the 20th century. The mill founded flame retardant fabrics in 1974. The mill is over 150 years old."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 3 of 4

"The cage crinoline made of flexible steel appeared about 1856. As a result, women could walk unencumbered by the layers of heavy petticoats, with…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century

"… wire to make sewing machine needles, and spring steel wire for hoop skirts and bustle supports. Improved water and rail transport speeded and…"

Historic Hallowell - Uniforms and Expenses

"The jacket had one or two rows of hard, steel buttons often having decorations imprinted or engraved on to them."

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"The bridge remains, a working ribbon of steel and concrete intimately tying two communities in two nations into a single working relationship."