Keywords: Womens Clothing
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrap & Sketch Book 2: 1864-1866
"… Part 6, pages 97-113 July 4, 1865 activities, women "who bore a bad name," first balloon ascention Part 8, pages 135-150 Return of soldiers…"
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Lincoln, Maine - Osgood's Store
"Women's and children’s clothes were added to the line. On April 28, 1960, Mr. Osgood started a complete renovation; the first floor was completed…"
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3
"… Library These citizens would either have food, clothing or medicine brought to their home if they had one, or if they had no home they would join…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes
"… cooking, tending children, washing and mending clothes, skinning and stretching hides, braiding sweetgrass, preparing ash strips, weaving baskets…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company
"… Bag Department made bags for flour, groceries, clothing, confectioneries, and bread in more than 35 different sizes and more than 20 brands."
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Dancing Fraternity, City of Bangor, 1868
"… up to 44 male members, who each could have two women who might accompany them to the weekly dances and weekly dance lessons."
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John Martin: Expert Observer - About This Project
"Thanks to the generosity of the the Maine Women Writers Collection and the Abplanalp Library at the University of New England this volume also has…"
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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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"Erlrie Holmes operated a clothing store and lived in the back with his family. Across Main Street was a drug store, originally owned Mr."
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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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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War
"By 1880 John Bangs was a clothing manufacturer. Mr. Bangs had a wife, Clara, and three sons, and by 1910 he was a widower, living in Nebraska."
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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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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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