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Historical Items

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Item 59813

Home Ec students knitting, Farmington State Normal School, 1940

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1940 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print

Item 103950

Children knitting at the Portland Day Nursery, Portland, 1923

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1923 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative

Item 103723

Tintype of woman knitting, ca. 1870

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1870 Media: Tintype

Online Exhibits

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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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Fashion for the People: Maine's Graphic Tees

From their humble beginnings as undergarments to today's fashion runways, t-shirts have evolved into universally worn wardrobe staples. Original graphic t-shirts, graphic t-shirt quilts, and photographs trace the 102-year history of the garment, demonstrating how, through the act of wearing graphic tees, people own a part of history relating to politics, social justice, economics, and commemorative events in Maine.

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We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.

Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.

Site Pages

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1970-1980 - Page 2 of 3

"… over from the 1960s example is a synthetic double knit long sleeve purple, tan and white bold diagonal plaid with a belt and labelled "FELIX…"

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 2 of 3

"… Society Although Crimplene and other firm knit fabrics were was extensively used for mini dresses, there are no examples in this collection nor is…"

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 1 of 3

"Made in various fabrications, chiefly double knits, washable drip-dryable Crimplene was popular for men’s shirts and jackets, women’s wear, and was…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

My life as a revolutionary knitter
by Katharine Cobey

Moving to Maine and confronting knitting stereotypes

Story

Growing up DownEast
by Darrin MC Mclellan

Stories of growing up Downeast

Story

63 year Presque Isle High School Class Reunion
by Kathryn E Joy

What happens when there are no more reunions planned.