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Historical Items

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Item 105507

Cape with burnoose hood, ca. 1865

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1865 Media: wool, cotton, mother of pearl, metal

Item 105694

Elizabeh McNeil Butts wool cloak, Lewiston, ca. 1903

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1903 Location: Lewiston Media: wool, metal

Item 31056

Lobster Measure, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: circa 1920 Media: Metal

Online Exhibits

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Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye

The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.

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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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Maine Eats: the food revolution starts here

From Maine's iconic lobsters, blueberries, potatoes, apples, and maple syrup, to local favorites like poutine, baked beans, red hot dogs, Italian sandwiches, and Whoopie Pies, Maine's identity and economy are inextricably linked to food. Sourcing food, preparing food, and eating food are all part of the heartbeat of Maine's culture and economy. Now, a food revolution is taking us back to our roots in Maine: to the traditional sources, preparation, and pleasures of eating food that have sustained Mainers for millennia.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Historic Hallowell - Industry on Bombahook

"… named it after the city of Bombay India, and the hook in the Kennebec River just below the point. There is no documentation for either theory."

Site Page

Lincoln, Maine - W.A. Brown: Jack of all trades

"He invented a tire hook chain, a rim stretcher and a temple joint for eyeglasses. That is how W.A. Brown was a part of Lincoln, Maine and what he did…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Rug Hooking Project with a Story
by Marilyn Weymouth Seguin

My grandmother taught me the Maine craft of rug hooking when I was a child.

Story

Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall

Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.