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Historical Items

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Item 7497

Alice Johnson gown, Norridgewock, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Norridgewock Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Norridgewock Media: Textile

Item 17264

Gown worn by Lillian Nordica

Contributed by: Nordica Memorial Association Date: circa 1880 Location: Farmington Media: Silk and velvet

Item 105486

Sally Holmes's evening gown, ca. 1824

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1824 Location: Alfred Media: Silk

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Graduation Season

Graduations -- and schools -- in the 19th through the first decade of the 20th century often were small affairs and sometimes featured student presentations that demonstrated what they had learned. They were not necessarily held in May or June, what later became the standard "end of the school year."

Exhibit

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.

Exhibit

Northern Threads: Two centuries of dress at Maine Historical

Organized by themed vignettes, Northern Threads shares stories about Maine people, while exploring how the clothing they wore reveals social, economic, and environmental histories. This re-examination of Maine Historical Society's permanent collection is an opportunity to consider the relevance of historic clothing in museums, the ebb and flow of fashion styles, and the complexities of diverse representation spanning 200 years of collecting.

Site Pages

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Historic Clothing Collection - Sally Holmes's evening gown, ca. 1824 - Page 1 of 2

"Sally Holmes's evening gown, ca. 1824 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Sally Holmes of Alfred wore this evening gown in…"

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Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 2 of 3

"… of quilting complexity were worn under short gowns (so called because they extended only a short distance below the waist over the petticoat), and…"

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1800-1830 - Page 2 of 2

"1800-1830 Gown with leaf motif, ca. 1825Maine Historical Society As of 2020, the MHS collection includes no examples of 1820s colored cotton…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Decontie and Brown's venture in high fashion design
by Decontie and Brown

Penobscot haute couture designs from Bangor

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