Keywords: mold
Item 12300
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1900 Location: Brunswick Media: Metal
Item 11931
Candle Mold, Littleton, ca. 1850
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1850 Location: Littleton Media: Tin
Exhibit
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.
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.
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The John Ruggles House
"… doorways have elegant proportions with fine moldings. Some of the mantels are of the coveted Thomaston black marble, exports of which generated an…"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Architect James Overlock
"… which were used to make decorative treatments in moldings, brackets, dentils, and window and balcony details."
Story
How I broke the mold for women to serve in the military
by Mary D. McGuirk
My life and career as a USAF Nurse
Story
My 40 years in Forestry and the Paper Industry in Maine
by Donna Cassese
I was the first female forester hired by Scott Paper and continue to find new uses for wood.
