Bejeweled: Standing Out


Gold and crystal pin, ca. 1880

Gold and crystal pin, ca. 1880
Item 48445   info
Maine Historical Society

Lura Beam, in A Maine Hamlet, wrote about her hometown of Marshfield at the turn of the 20th century: "To have jewelry was every woman's ambition, and every man's too because he wanted to give it. … Probably only about half the women had more than a single piece of jewelry."

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