Keywords: fashions
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1800-1830 - Page 1 of 2
"1805Maine Historical Society The fashions of 1800-1805 are represented at Maine Historical Society by a small, but important group of slender gowns…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 1 of 3
"… Society Contrasting with these two luxurious and fashionable gowns, a modest small child’s dress in the collection is a rare eighteenth century…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 1 of 2
"… institutions tend to focus on luxurious high fashions, the MHS Historic Dress Collection, in common with most fellow regional organizations, is…"
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"Fashion provides historical context, documenting how people communicated, built, or maintained relationships, formed identities, or drew connections…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1970-1980 - Page 3 of 3
"Laurent’s 1970s, exotic, richly embellished fashions inspired by an eclectic mix of embroidered ethnic dress culled from regions worldwide."
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"His interest in fashion was, in part, an effort to have the most up-to-date, and hence "proper," clothing."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Memorial Day, Presque Isle, 1888
"… sign, "Photography Rooms." Note the late 1880's fashions. The woman on the right in the doorway is Larla Smith (ne Mrs. Sidney Graves)."
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Life on a Tidal River - Resources
"Fashion Baker, Patricia. Fashions of a Decade: The 1940s (Fashions of a Decade). New York: Facts on File, 1992. Print. Olian, Joanne (Ed)."
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"… and remain, unlike most early settlements, an old fashioned mill-town. Come back with us and share our history in these three segments that relate…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators on the Rise
"… of “agreeable luxuries” offered by hotels, in fashionable changes of clothing, masquerade balls, musicales and lectures, yachting parties, horse…"
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Historic Hallowell - The "World of Mirth" Carnival in Hallowell
"… covered men being lit on fire, and other old-fashioned, carnival rides such as a carousel and ferris wheel."
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Life on a Tidal River - Doughty Students
"… teacher at JFDS, works with students on the fashion exhibit. X Dani Fazio, from the Maine Historical Society, demonstrates how to correctly…"
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Salmon Brook Historical Society
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Telephone communication
"… about the island telephone system took place in the 1960s. As you will hear in the audio, the phone system was old fashioned even for the '60s."
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Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 2 of 2
"… prominent families, the five Deering sisters are fashionably dressed and artistically posed around their mother, Anna Margaret Holwell Deering."
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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell's First Dwelling
"… in front and one at the rear, according to the fashion of the times; and ever after that, the hospitable doors of the Clark house stood open to…"
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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 5 of 5
"It was heated by oil and an old-fashioned wood stove despite the two fireplaces, and has 14 acres surrounding it."
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Dancing Fraternity, City of Bangor, 1868
"Dancing Fraternity, City of Bangor, 1868 John Martin: "Terpsichorian of the Old School" John Martin, Bangor, ca."
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 1, pages 000-26
"Part 1, pages 000-26 Martin begin his Scrap & Sketch Book with information about the Bangor House and Franklin House, and his theme throughout much…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 139-194
"Intro: pages 139-194 Part 3, pages 139-194 Approximately 1840-1844 John Martin, still a teenager in the experiences he recollected, already…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 7, pages 114-134
"Part 7, pages 114-134 Part 7, pages 114-134 Martin began this section by writing and illustrating what he calls his "Chapter on Soldiers" in…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 84-107
"Intro: pages 84-107 Part 5, pages 84-107 John Martin begins this section with newspaper clippings concerning how much Republican states…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 0-21
"Intro: pages 0-21 Part 1, pages 0-21 Martin began his final volume of compiled retrospective and contemporary commentary after he went to work…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 8, pages 135-150
"Part 8, pages 135-150 The final section of the Scrap & Sketch Book is primarily about the criminal activity in Bangor, the results of court…"