Keywords: Seasonal dress
Item 105676
Whitework summer dress, ca. 1917
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1917 Media: cotton
Item 105678
White batiste cotton dress, Brownville, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Brownville Media: cotton
Exhibit
Northern Threads: Silhouettes in Sequence, ca. 1780-1889
A themed exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring a timeline of silhouettes from about 1775 through 1889.
Exhibit
Northern Threads: Civil War-era clothing
An exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads, Part 1," featuring American Civil War civilian and military clothing, 1860 to 1869.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 3 of 4
"Cut velvet two-piece dress, ca. 1885Maine Historical Society Ida Bowles' wedding dress, ca.1886Maine Historical Society In August 1882…"
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Sally Holmes's evening gown, ca. 1824 - Page 1 of 2
"Sally and her daughter, Sarah Ann, spent "the season" in Washington. The wide waistband and puff sleeve cuffs are trimmed with the fashionable…"
Story
Hooch Mum and my Vietnam service
by Jim Barrows
A poem about being a medic, saving Vietnamese people and babies. Sometimes we trusted too much.
Story
Florence Ahlquist Link's WWII service in the WAVES
by Earlene Ahlquist Chadbourne
Florence Ahlquist, age 20, was trained to repair the new aeronautical cameras by the US Navy in WWII
