Keywords: 1930s
Item 111523
Glamour pajama suit, Yarmouth, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Yarmouth Media: silk
Item 105705
Anne F. Wilson's floral print dress, Salem, Massachusetts, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1935 Location: Waterford; Salem Media: rayon
Exhibit
Capturing Arts and Artists in the 1930s
Emmie Bailey Whitney of the Lewiston Journal Saturday Magazine and her husband, noted amateur photographer G. Herbert Whitney, captured in words and photographs the richness of Maine's arts scene during the Great Depression.
Exhibit
Putting Men to Work, Saving Trees
While many Mainers were averse to accepting federal relief money during the Great Depression of the 1930s, young men eagerly joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's most popular programs. The Maine Forest Service supervised the work of many of the camps.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Unitarian Church, Presque Isle, 1895
"… Masonic Temple purchased the property in the late 1930s, and the church was torn down in 1939. The Masonic Temple was built on the property and…"
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1930-1940 - Page 1 of 4
"… as being "modern," came into its own in the 1930s. Day dress with jacket, ca. 1930Maine Historical Society Just how attractive and…"
Story
Baxter State Park and Burton W. Howe
by Jason Howe
Formation of Baxter State Park and the involvement of Burton W. Howe of Patten
Story
How Belfast was the Chicken Capital of the Northeast
by Ralph Chavis
My memories of spending time in Belfast as a child when my father worked in the chicken industry.