Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Lineman's Journal

"… up in the morning, my wife started packing her clothes with my daughter. After she was done, she told me, “Honey we're ready." I said, “Honey go…"

Historic Hallowell - Uniforms and Expenses

"… and into the early nineteen hundreds, the police clothing varied depending on which state, city, or town you were were assigned to."

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."

Early Maine Photography - MHS Early Maine Photography Collections

"Tintype of man in weather resistant clothing, ca. 1900Maine Historical Society Such methods for organizing photographs was thought to provide…"

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"Also, steamboats were used for shipping food, lumber and clothes that were not on the railroad out of Lincoln to the rest of the towns and cities on…"

Lincoln, Maine - Nathaniel Bodwell

"A carding mill is where the clothing is made, and Bodwell’s mill was the first carding mill in Lincoln."

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"Office panel systems, constructed of cloth over metal frames were becoming popular at this time, and the newly developed flame retardant process…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 3 of 4

"… Horses and Mules; A large lot of Boots & shoes; cloth ect. ect. I can assure you that Maine has got its name up during this campaign and so high…"

Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 2 of 3

"… in the residence area, which included: “Washing clothes in the bathtubs is not allowed. The laundry is for such purposes.” “Do not monopolize the…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… By 1870, Surry was producing goods for the clothing, building, and shipping industries, plus it housed a carding mill, tannery, stave mill, shingle…"

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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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."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

"… the boards with chunks of chalk and erased with cloth rags. Soon, the slate board was invented and it was then that teachers switched to cylinders…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 3 of 5

"It contained a post office, a clothing store, and a drug store on the first floor, and the bedrooms and the kitchen on the second floor, with…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… and Japanese folks gathered together in everyday clothes, belting out a moving rendition of a chorus from Aida, accompanied by two or more pianos…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"In the tunnel were reportedly old clothes and other items which may have been used to disguise the slaves as they made their way to Canada."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"… had been bolts of heavy, double-faced woolen cloth, which were salvaged by area residents. Some Scarborough Historical Society members remember…"

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"… another great downtown fire, one which consumed a clothing store, caused little more than a hiccup, as the store rebuilt immediately."

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…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… and worked in various enterprises, managing a clothing store for a time in Boston. In 1869 he married Ellen Maria Marston, daughter of the sea…"

Otisfield Historical Society

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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."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… in southern Maine where it was used for sizing cloth. Aroostook County’s first starch factory opened in Caribou in 1870 and the third in Presque…"