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Item 15190

Dr. J Peck, 1865

Contributed by: City of Brewer Date: 1865-05-03 Location: Brewer Media: Photographic print

Item 12773

John J. Prue farm, Ashland, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1930 Location: Ashland Media: Photographic print

Item 18097

William Senter Lowell, Portland, ca. 1880

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1880 Location: Portland; Fort Edward Media: Photographic print

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Maine Soldiers' Relief Association card, Washington, ca. 1863

The Sanitary Commission: Meeting Needs of Soldiers, Families

The Sanitary Commission, formed soon after the Civil War began in the spring of 1861, dealt with the health, relief needs, and morale of soldiers and their families. The Maine Agency helped families and soldiers with everything from furloughs to getting new socks.

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Laboring in Maine

Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.

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Dress made by Martha Willey Riley, Cherryfield, ca. 1912

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.