Maine Memory Network

Historic Clothing Collection - 1910-1920 - Page 2 of 2

"The tubular lace skirt is covered with a three- quarter length heavier lace overskirt, with a decorative, deeply tabbed hemline."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1930-1940 - Page 1 of 4

"An easy fitting three-quarter sleeved unlined edge to edge jacket completes the ensemble. Perhaps worn with white wide-heeled shoes and a neat little…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 3 of 3

"… design matelassé synthetic; and a home sewn three quarter sleeve green synthetic linen-look collarless coat lined with a blotchy multicolored print…"

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

"… thin tussah dress and heavy tussah three quarter length belted coat travel outfit; and a long, collared, short sleeved, tube-shaped dress entirely…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 4 of 4

"… and white tweedy skirt and matching tweedy three-quarter sleeve edge to edge jacket with small tab ties at the lower front hem."

Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1900-1930

"… ribbon neck ties; a 1902-1903 dark red wool three-quarter length astrakhan collared cape embellished with a stylized vine pattern of black silk…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 2 of 3

"In more fashionable quarters, before the new fashion blazed its trail, European and American designers experimented, producing some exotic creations."

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 1 of 3

"… waist forming a curved point at the back, three quarter sleeves frilled at the elbow, and a full skirt."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 6 of 17

"… said, “The Production of cloth is now not one-quarter of the producing in common times, and every week it is growing smaller."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Harris House, Bangor, ca. 1850

"They had lived in Martin's former quarters in the Rufus Prince house. Martin described this as his first "real home" since he left his parents house…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - WWI Impact on Farmington's Agriculture

"… for cutting 1,597 pounds of corn from a quarter acre at a profit of $40.04.” (Note: Brenda Voter York (and Herbert "Bussy" York) of Sandy River…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"… and ethnocentric assumptions." American Indian Quarterly 17.2 (1993): 193-208. Academic Search Premier. 1 Jan 2010. (N) Ghere, David L."

Acadia National Park

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… a permanent home for Mame as well summer living quarters for her brother Richard and his growing family – his wife Ernestine and three children…"

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"… of the household goods to the summer or winter quarters. By the age of 10, boys and girls were skilled canoeists who used paddles fashioned by…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 2 of 4

"… 20 men---and such as we had for winter quarters, I and it is rumored that we are about to have them too, and if that is the case you may rest…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… with it, and the testimony of a century and a quarter is " that the place is beautiful to look upon. " In 1765 Col."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"While occupying almost one-quarter of the island’s total acreage, there were only twenty-six houses shown on the 1884 map."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… local governments, was disrupted in the third quarter of the seventeenth century by a series of conflicts with Native Americans."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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