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Keywords: American Clothing Company

Historical Items

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Item 76506

American Clothing Co., Portland

Contributed by: Greater Portland Landmarks Date: 1912 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

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Item 11149

Crowd at American Clothing Co., Portland, ca. 1914

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1914 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 105005

Gingham Glam dress, Bangor, 2019

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2019 Location: Bangor Media: Polyester

Online Exhibits

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Northern Threads: Civil War-era clothing

An exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads, Part 1," featuring American Civil War civilian and military clothing, 1860 to 1869.

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Fashionable Maine: early twentieth century clothing

Maine residents kept pace with the dramatic shift in women’s dress that occurred during the short number of years preceding and immediately following World War I. The long restrictive skirts, stiff collars, body molding corsets and formal behavior of earlier decades quickly faded away and the new straight, dropped waist easy-to-wear clothing gave mobility and freedom of movement in tune with the young independent women of the casual, post-war jazz age generation.

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From French Canadians to Franco-Americans

French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.

Site Pages

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

"… of affordable American designed, well-fitting clothing for college girls, women’s wear, and casual wear for every occasion and activity."

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

"… designer famous for his elegant and timeless clothing. In the post war era, draped details, outsize bows, bunches, and swags were prominent design…"

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Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"Surry Opera Company Opera Company's Tenth Anniversary festival schedule, Surry, 1994Surry Historical Society Text by Kate Mrozicki Images…"

My Maine Stories

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Wabanaki Fashion
by Decontie & Brown

Keeping the spirit and memories of our ancestors alive through fashion and creativity

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A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down

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John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne

Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.