Keywords: cape style home
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Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1830-1860
"… as a black and brown watered silk tassel trimmed cape with a similarly trimmed shoulder cape; a wide dark brown wadded coat, with an open front…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 1 of 3
"… powder blue wool and rayon V neck day dress, whose style lingers in the 1930s, with a matching softly draped scallop edge short shoulder cape."
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 3 of 3
"… longer skirt, and neatly fitting hip-covering tailored jacket, with an attached short shoulder cape, a feature that lingered into the 1950s."
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Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1870 to 1900
"Rosenthal, Berlin." Two black, flared shoulder capes, one sturdy wool, the other silk taffeta, are styled to wear over large 1890s sleeves."
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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 2
"… of Maine before the Civil War, the Greek Revival cape style house enjoyed widespread popularity. Two examples are found in an ambrotype of the…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1900-1930
"Outerwear 1900-1930 Astrakhan collared cape, ca. 1903Maine Historical Society The domestic industry’s now prolific silk fabric production made…"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Fales Edgarton House
"It is said that the walls are constructed with vertical planks. Many houses of this style of architecture still exist in Thomaston, ranging in…"
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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3
"… Society An ambrotype of Richmond’s Island in Cape Elizabeth shows the newly constructed retirement home of longtime Portland physician James M."
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1930-1940 - Page 3 of 4
"… floral print chiffon with a shoulder cape; a tubular black rayon crepe with a bright pink belt, pink decorative bodice motif and skirt feature at…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 2 of 2
"… Historic Dress Collection Major Judkin's Cape, ca. 1835Maine Historical Society Rarity makes examples of old work clothes, and what they…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1970-1980 - Page 3 of 3
"… a label marked "B Green Room," and includes the Beene signature cursive "B." The gown is associated with Cecile P. Carver of Cape Elizabeth."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Captain Samuel Watts House
"Captain Watts first built a substantial cape style Greek Revival on Knox Street in which he and his family lived in 1842."
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Historic Hallowell - A Chosen Place
"A small cape will abut a Victorian; a bungalow will sit beside what once must have been a farmhouse."
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Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas
"Davis, Guy P. Gannett, and Henry P. Rines, in Cape Elizabeth. These homes are distinctive interpretations of Tudor period country houses."
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History
"… Smith of Yarmouth and Sheila Libby Alexander of Cape Elizabeth, riding instructors in the 1960’s, were paid $3-$5 per day, and they loved every…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street
"… 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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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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