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Historical Items

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Item 105678

White batiste cotton dress, Brownville, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Brownville Media: cotton
This record contains 16 images.

Item 105662

Ella May Clark's three-piece dress, Yarmouth, ca. 1901

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1901 Location: Yarmouth; New Gloucester Media: wool, velvet, cotton, shell
This record contains 9 images.

Item 105670

Gold printed satin dress, Portland, ca. 1907

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1907 Location: Portland Media: silk, cotton
This record contains 13 images.

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History

After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.

Exhibit

From French Canadians to Franco-Americans

French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.

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A Focus on Trees

Maine has some 17 million acres of forest land. But even on a smaller, more local scale, trees have been an important part of the landscape. In many communities, tree-lined commercial and residential streets are a dominant feature of photographs of the communities.

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1900-1910 - Page 2 of 3

"Thomas’ brown printed silk, shown at the left. With its bloused bodice and back thrust hips this dress illustrates what is called the “S” bend…"

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Historic Clothing Collection - Early Twentieth Century

"… bloused-bodice peach and cream leafy print voile dress is labelled "Dunton Robes of Augusta." Suit dress with aquamarine lining, ca."

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1900-1910 - Page 1 of 3

"1901Maine Historical Society Of early 1900s contrasting fashions, one was defined by soft pastel colored, lacy, bloused or pouched bodices, with…"