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Historical Items

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Item 9778

Sears-Roebuck Shoe Factories #3, Springvale

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1912 Location: Sanford Media: Photographic print

Item 16822

Shoe Factory, Springvale, ca. 1912

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1912 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative

Item 28347

Schooner Charles E. Sears, Lubec, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Lubec Memorial Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 40483

Assessor's Record, 22 Cottage Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Elizabeth Sears Use: Garage & Shop

Item 40482

22 Cottage Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Elizabeth Sears Use: Dwelling - Single family

Item 32283

34-36 Atlantic Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Lucinda C Sears Style: Colonial Revival Use: Dwelling - Single family

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109160

Sears Roebuck & Company Warehouse, Bangor, 1949-1950

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1949–1950 Location: Bangor Client: Sears Roebuck & Company Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Item 110169

Sears Roebuck Company Service Station, Portland, 1946

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1946 Location: Portland Client: Sears Roebuck and Company Architect: John Howard Stevens John Calvin Stevens II Architects

Item 110171

Sears Roebuck and Company retail store, Portland, 1946-1947

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1946–1947 Location: Portland Client: Sears Roebuck and Company Architect: John Howard Stevens John Calvin Stevens II Architects

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Fashion for the People: Maine's Graphic Tees

From their humble beginnings as undergarments to today's fashion runways, t-shirts have evolved into universally worn wardrobe staples. Original graphic t-shirts, graphic t-shirt quilts, and photographs trace the 102-year history of the garment, demonstrating how, through the act of wearing graphic tees, people own a part of history relating to politics, social justice, economics, and commemorative events in Maine.

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.

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Summer Folk: The Postcard View

Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."

Site Pages

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Sears and Roebuck Company Building

"The local Sears and Roebuck building was built in 1947. This building replaced a mail order office. When it was built, the store was the second…"

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1890-1900 - Page 3 of 3

"… development of, appropriate, comfortable work and sporting attire. By 1900 Sears catalogue offered smart sensible suits with silk lined jackets."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"In 1941, Sears opened its only small-town national chain branch on the north side of Centre Street, despite the small facility and limited parking."

My Maine Stories

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Story

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars