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Historical Items

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Item 9342

Admiral and Maud, Carrabassett, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Stanley Museum Date: circa 1905 Location: Carrabassett Media: Photographic print

Item 82320

Capt. Samuel Hadlock Jr., London, 1824

Contributed by: Acadia National Park Date: 1824 Location: Cranberry Isles; London Media: Painted, wood, gilt

Item 101880

Hyman Deletetsky note to family from boot camp, Florida, 1944

Contributed by: An individual through Maine Historical Society Date: 1944 Location: Auburn Media: Ink on paper

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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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How Sweet It Is

Desserts have always been a special treat. For centuries, Mainers have enjoyed something sweet as a nice conclusion to a meal or celebrate a special occasion. But many things have changed over the years: how cooks learn to make desserts, what foods and tools were available, what was important to people.

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Great Cranberry Island's Preble House

The Preble House, built in 1827 on a hilltop over Preble Cove on Great Cranberry Island, was the home to several generations of Hadlock, Preble, and Spurling family members -- and featured in several books.

Site Pages

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 2 of 3

"… American designers experimented, producing some exotic creations. In this vein, there are two American examples in the collection."

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

"Laurent’s 1970s, exotic, richly embellished fashions inspired by an eclectic mix of embroidered ethnic dress culled from regions worldwide."

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

"… cheap flowing Indian print skirts and caftans, exotic ethnic garments collected on trips to the far-east, and other non-mainstream, often…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.

Story

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down