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Historical Items

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Item 110369

Plaid pagoda sleeve dress, ca.1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1863 Media: silk, cotton

Item 105815

Black taffeta dress, ca. 1865

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1865 Media: silk, cotton

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

Online Exhibits

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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

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.

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 Pages

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Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1830-1860

"… black wool with tab toggle closures, with a 1850s-1860s burnoose style fixed-in-place hood. A well worn men's black wool "country cape," not…"

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 2 of 4

"Early examples include a blueish purple 1860s highly trimmed walking dress with a short basque (a fitted jacket-like bodice) and flat fronted skirt…"

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 1 of 4

"In the 1860s and 1870s small thread mills, such as the Haskell Silk Company of Westbrook proliferated, producing the special twist thread in high…"