Keywords: Crazing
Item 103637
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1845 Location: Readfield Media: Tintype
Item 120
Aviator Jones Hangar, Old Orchard Beach, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1920 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.
Exhibit
Fashionable Maine: early twentieth century clothing
Maine residents kept pace with the dramatic shift in women’s dress that occurred during the short number of years preceding and immediately following World War I. The long restrictive skirts, stiff collars, body molding corsets and formal behavior of earlier decades quickly faded away and the new straight, dropped waist easy-to-wear clothing gave mobility and freedom of movement in tune with the young independent women of the casual, post-war jazz age generation.
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 4 of 4
"By the spring of 1912, an automobile craze had hit the state and the number of cars in Maine had quadrupled."
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal
"… credit and of money itself as well as the 1830s craze of land speculation all affected Bangor and John Martin -- and all appear within the pages of…"
Story
C19 on Pine Point Beach
by Beth, Scarborough
Cancer patient experience during pandemic
