Keywords: Sports Complex
Item 103144
Derby Race, Park Avenue, Portland ca. 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1930 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
Item 98853
Norcross House in winter, Norcross, ca. 1915
Contributed by: Norcross Heritage Trust Date: circa 1915 Location: Indian Purchase Township No. 3 Media: Photographic print
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Poland Spring: Summering in Fashion
During the Gilded Age at the end of the nineteenth century, Americans sought to leave increasing urban, industrialized lives for the health and relaxation of the country. The Poland Spring resort, which offered a beautiful setting, healing waters, and many amenities, was one popular destination.
Exhibit
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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Historic Clothing Collection - Wrappers, Teagowns & At Home Dresses
"It is also suggested that, complex though they appear, the looser less restrictive nature of the more sophisticated examples were an early step…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 2 of 3
"… of different fabrics and degrees of quilting complexity were worn under short gowns (so called because they extended only a short distance below…"
