Keywords: Buttons
Item 105904
Paragon Button Corporation, Waldoboro, 1921
Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1921 Location: Waldoboro Media: Glass Plate Negative
Item 25846
Buttons, Fort Edgecomb State Historic Site, ca. 1809
Contributed by: Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands Date: circa 1809 Location: Edgecomb Media: Bone
Exhibit
Margaret Chase Smith: A Historic Candidacy
When she announced her candidacy for President in January 1964, three-term Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman to seek the nomination of one of the two major political parties.
Exhibit
Capt. Grenville F. Sparrow, 17th Maine
Grenville F. Sparrow of Portland was 25 when he answered Lincoln's call for more troops to fight the Confederates. He enlisted in Co. A of Maine's 17th Volunteer Infantry regiment. He fought in 30 battles between 1862 and the war's end in 1865.
Site Page
Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons
"He brought those buttons to Mazie for her to clean, sort, and organize. She piled all her findings in a simple shopping bag."
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 2 of 4
"1850-1870 Cameo button detail X Helen Bancroft Hay's cameo-button striped dress, Charlestown, MA., ca."
Story
Creating the Purr-Sist button
by Ellen Crocker
Motivated by the Women's March and Sen. Warren, I created these buttons
Story
Portland in the 1940s
by Carol Norton Hall
As a young woman in Portland during WWII, the presence of servicemen was life changing.
