Keywords: Millinery shop
Item 35570
Mary C. Cowen Millinery, Biddeford, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Biddeford Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Item 30920
Elm Street Businesses, Guilford, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Guilford Historical Society Date: circa 1880 Location: Guilford Media: Photographic print
Item 39910
Assessor's Record, 865 Congress Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Bessie Feldman Use: Shop - Millinery
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Summer Folk: The Postcard View
Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."
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Women at the turn of the 20th century were increasingly involved in paid work outside the home. For wage-earning women in the Old Port section of Portland, the jobs ranged from canning fish and vegetables to setting type. A study done in 1907 found many women did not earn living wages.
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"… for red, white, and blue ribbons exhausted the millinery shops in short metre.” The first two weeks of April 1865 represented a time of celebration…"
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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3
"Dunton, a millinery and fancy goods dealer. Street Scene in Athens, ca. 1865Maine Historical Society Two Maine related outdoor images in the…"
