Maine Memory Network

Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail by Ronald Pesha, Lubec Historical Society Who was Myron Haliburton Avery? The first 2000-miler of the…"

Lubec, Maine - Exhibits

"Exhibits Committee Exhibits: Team members created individual exhibits (web pages) exploring some of the unique aspects of Lubec’s history."

Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 2 of 2

"The Gardner Lake Tragedy The fifth graders observations “One day in 1936 school children went to spend the end of the year by going on a boat at…"

Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 1 of 2

"The Gardner Lake Tragedy Miriam Kelley as a young woman X Images from the family of Miriam Kelley Doherty Research and text by Seth Doherty…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 3 of 3

"… to manufacture bobbins for use in the textile industry as noted in the textile business history above."

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"This was the second textile mill in town. Piscataquis Woolen Company Mill, Guilford, 1912Guilford Historical Society The first was built on the…"

Guilford, Maine - EXHIBITS

"EARLY MANUFACTURING Industry came early to Guilford, and although adapted and modernized, it is still the foundation of our community, providing…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 1 of 3

"… window in the first two stories of both of the textile mills located on either side of the river. Annual River Drive, Guilford, ca."

Guilford, Maine - PROJECT OVERVIEW - Page 1 of 2

"The Guilford Industries, now known as True Textiles pictured in the background. X The Guilford MCHP Team Members have held regular monthly…"

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"… Theatre, 1939Guilford Historical Society True Textiles, Inc. X Community Theatre Program, Guilford, July 3,1939Guilford Historical…"

Early Maine Photography - Occupational Photography

"Wearing such a garment to protect his clothes indicates that Soule worked at a trade or in a factory, perhaps in the local textile mill."

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"Organizers and agitators in the textile strike were busy that week, but Guilford mills operated as usual."

Old Berwick Historical Society

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1920-1930 - Page 1 of 3

"Rayon filament was delivered to textile mills, wound onto cones, ready to thread onto looms and be made into fabrics marketed as artificial silk."

Historic Clothing Collection - Fabric Adaptive Reuse

"… Adaptive Reuse Slide Show In the past, when silk textiles were so expensive and new dresses required many yards of fabric, women were familiar…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Fashions Far & Away

"… made from Guangdong (Canton) mud silk, a regional textile specialty, until recently unrecognized or collected by museums."

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 1 of 3

"Such textiles were the product of highly skilled, intensive hand labor, and an extreme luxury afforded by only the wealthiest individuals."

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

"… typical museum practice to categorize garments as textiles or decorative objects of little significance."

Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 1 of 2

"… Society Narrative by Jacqueline Field, textile and dress historian Maine Historical Society’s Historic Dress Collection is an amalgamation of…"

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

"… by a wealth of serious publications, academic and textile conservation programs, professional organizations, museum collections, and exhibition…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Northern Threads: Two centuries of dress at Maine Historical Society - Page 1 of 3

"… portal with narratives authored by fashion and textile historian Jacqueline Field. Much of the Northern Threads exhibition was drawn from the MMN…"

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

"… Mill in Lewiston produced vast quantities of textiles for war purposes, from uniform fabric and hospital bedding, to parachutes and life rafts."

Maine State Museum

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McArthur Public Library

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