Keywords: wool cloth
Item 105966
Sarah Moore's wool plaid dress, Waterford, ca. 1868
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1868 Location: Waterford Media: wool, cotton, glass
Item 105656
Green wool dress with red satin and black braid details, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Media: wool, cotton, silk, metal
Exhibit
Northern Threads: Civil War-era clothing
An exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads, Part 1," featuring American Civil War civilian and military clothing, 1860 to 1869.
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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Historic Clothing Collection - Minimalist wool skirt suit, ca. 1943 - Page 1 of 3
"Minimalist wool skirt suit, ca. 1943 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description View additional information about this item on…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Mourning Clothing
"Mourning Clothing View the Mourning Clothing Slide Show With the growth of the middle class, the custom of wearing black during periods of…"
Story
From Chinese Laundress to Mother of the Year
by Dr. Andrea Louie
Toy Len Goon's granddaughter recounts her immigration to the US and becoming Mother of the Year.
Story
Growing up DownEast
by Darrin MC Mclellan
Stories of growing up Downeast
