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Historical Items

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Item 49074

Woman's white lace collar, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Media: Cotton

Item 49073

Embroidered collar, ca. 1865

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1865 Media: Cotton

Item 49076

William B. Cobb collar, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Troy Media: Cotton

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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Dressing Up, Standing Out, Fitting In

Adorning oneself to look one's "best" has varied over time, gender, economic class, and by event. Adornments suggest one's sense of identity and one's intent to stand out or fit in.

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.

Site Pages

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1900-1910 - Page 2 of 3

"… collar and spreading cape-like detachable collar of crochet and tape lace, and a tan flowered cream dress with a chiffon yoke, shoulder-wide mock…"

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1900-1910 - Page 1 of 3

"… with corsets) and shirt blouses, often with stiff collars and soft floppy bows at the neck. This second alternate mode is familiar from the "Gibson…"

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Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1870 to 1900

"Both feature high face encircling collars make room for voluminous sleeve trends. Also allowing for fuller sleeves, is a London made cream light wool…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Wampum Belts
by Donald Soctomah

My great grandfather was a wampum keeper

Story

My life as a revolutionary knitter
by Katharine Cobey

Moving to Maine and confronting knitting stereotypes

Story

The Cup Code (working at OOB in the 1960s)
by Randy Randall

Teenagers cooking fried food in OOB and the code used identify the product and quantity.