Keywords: 1930s designer dress
Item 105474
Margaret Payson's Delphic-style gown, Portland, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1938 Location: Portland; New York Media: rayon, glass beads
Item 54199
'Creole' dress croquis, Paris, 1933
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1933 Location: Paris Media: Ink and pencil on paper, fabric
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Bookplates Honor Annie Louise Cary
A summer resident of Wayne collected more than 3,000 bookplates to honor Maine native and noted opera singer Annie Louise Cary and to support the Cary Memorial Library.
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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 - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 2 of 2
… century couture caliber gowns from Lewiston; a 1930s ‘Delphic’ gown and others by Jessie Franklin Turner; and a 1970s Geoffrey Beene evening dress…
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Historic Clothing Collection - Mid Twentieth Century
… dominated by women's wear from the 1870s to the 1930s. Although, despite this focus, the featured mid twentieth century examples within this…
