Keywords: dramatic images
Item 30991
Stephen A. Ellison, Brunswick, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1930 Location: Brunswick Media: Photographic print
Item 99397
Flames rolling though the windows of Grafton Lumber, Biddeford, 1963
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1963-03-20 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Since the establishment of the area's first licensed hotel in 1681, Portland has had a dramatic, grand and boisterous hotel tradition. The Portland hotel industry has in many ways reflected the growth and development of the city itself. As Portland grew with greater numbers of people moving through the city or calling it home, the hotel business expanded to fit the increasing demand.
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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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The House, 1786-1960
"Gradually, the house was no longer in a rural setting. But Portland and the nature of urban life has changed dramatically."
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Mercy Hospital - 100 Years of Mercy Hospital
"… a growing and changing population, and dramatically different medical technologies. At the turn of the 21st century, as those challenges began to…"
