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Item 11573

Ladies' Magazine fashion plate, 1830

Contributed by: Brick Store Museum Date: 1830 Media: Ink on paper

Item 5522

February Fashions 1840

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1840 Media: Ink on paper

Item 8576

The Snowstorm, ca. 1866

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1866 Media: Ink on paper

Online Exhibits

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The Mainspring of Fashion

The mainspring of fashion is the process whereby members of one class imitate the styles of another, who in turn are driven to ever new expedients of fashionable change.

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Great Cranberry Island's Preble House

The Preble House, built in 1827 on a hilltop over Preble Cove on Great Cranberry Island, was the home to several generations of Hadlock, Preble, and Spurling family members -- and featured in several books.

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A Craze for Cycling

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.

Site Pages

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Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century

"Godey's Ladies Magazine, founded in 1830, was the most widely circulated fashion magazine. Its competitor, Petersons Magazine, was founded in 1842."

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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4

"Cover of first issue of Farmstead Magazine, 1974Blue Hill Historical Society The Back to the Land Movement."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Dancing Fraternity, City of Bangor, 1868

"… "gentlemen" could refer to the many manuals and magazines available in the nineteenth century that detailed behavioral rules such as the protocol…"