Keywords: Botanical design
Item 105513
Silk faille and cut velvet bustle dress, ca. 1885
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1885 Media: silk, cotton, velvet
Item 105600
Fringed day mantle, Portland, ca. 1878
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1878 Location: Portland Media: cotton, silk, satin
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Selections from the Collections
Maine Historical Society staff come across unique and unforgettable items in our collections every day. While it's difficult to choose favorites from a dynamic collection, this exhibit features memorable highlights as selected by members of the MHS staff.
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Biddeford, Saco and the Textile Industry
The largest textile factory in the country reached seven stories up on the banks of the Saco River in 1825, ushering in more than a century of making cloth in Biddeford and Saco. Along with the industry came larger populations and commercial, retail, social, and cultural growth.
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"… in the late 1950s and a small library of rare botanical books for Thuya Lodge. John D. Rockefeller Jr. letter to Charles K."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2
"Dunbar and E.L. Rand, First Annual Report of the Botanical Department 1880 , pp. 55-57, Gray Herbarium Archives, Harvard University “The scenery of…"
