Keywords: bookstores
Item 29067
Kendall's Bookstore, Biddeford, 1899
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1899 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Item 20758
Treat's Corner, Main St, Calais ca. 1900
Contributed by: St. Croix Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Calais Media: Photographic print
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
These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation
"… Goodale arrived in town and opened the first bookstore established east of Portland, “The Hallowell Bookstore -- Sign of the Bible.” He imported…"
