Keywords: 1840 period clothes
Item 148127
Twin sisters Octavia and Josephene Thurston, Bangor, ca. 1840
Courtesy of June Contrera, an individual partner Date: circa 1840 Location: Bangor Media: daguerreotype
Item 105761
Brocade silk dress with pleated puffed sleeves, Windham, ca. 1840
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1840 Location: Windham Media: silk, cotton, metal
Exhibit
Northern Threads: The rise and fall of the gigot sleeve
A themed exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring the balloon-like gigot sleeve of the 1830s.
Exhibit
Northern Threads: Silhouettes in Sequence, ca. 1780-1889
A themed exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring a timeline of silhouettes from about 1775 through 1889.
Site Page
Early Maine Photography - Occupational Photography
"… photographs depict individuals in the clothing of their trade or profession holding related tools or objects."
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview
"… as the population jumped from five thousand in 1840 to eight thousand, with an additional 600 non-resident seamen, in 1850."
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
