Keywords: Gloves
Item 74508
Rubber electrical worker gloves, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1935 Media: Rubber, leather, suede, canvas, brass
Item 74513
Electrical worker leather gloves, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Media: Suede
Item 37301
141-145 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: William J Dennis Use: Store
Exhibit
Northern Threads: Early Republic era Fashion dolls
A themed exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring Early Repulic-era (ca.1780-1820) fashion dolls.
Exhibit
Lillian Nordica: Farmington Diva
Lillian Norton, known as Nordica, was one of the best known sopranos in America and the world at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She was a native of Farmington.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Soldier, Bangor, ca. 1860
"… calf boots with either white silk or white cotton gloves with red stripes on the pants." Below that on the page, he drew a soldier as "a million…"
Site Page
Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages
"Extending above the elbow, the gloves button at the wrist to allow the wearer to free a hand without completely removing the glove."
Story
My Life in Boxing
by Bob Russo
Bob Russo on boxing and his life in Portland
Story
Aroostook Potato Harvest: Perspective of a Six Year Old
by Phyllis A. Blackstone
A child's memory of potato harvest in the 1950s