Maine Memory Network

Mary C. Cowen Millinery, Biddeford, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Biddeford Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Storey Millinery, Portland, ca. 1914

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1914 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Assessor's Record, 865 Congress Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Bessie Feldman Use: Shop - Millinery

Dressing Up, Standing Out, Fitting In

Adorning oneself to look one's "best" has varied over time, gender, economic class, and by event. Adornments suggest one's sense of identity and one's intent to stand out or fit in.

Back to School

Public education has been a part of Maine since Euro-American settlement began to stabilize in the early eighteenth century. But not until the end of the nineteenth century was public education really compulsory in Maine.

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 16 of 17

"… for red, white, and blue ribbons exhausted the millinery shops in short metre.” The first two weeks of April 1865 represented a time of celebration…"

Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library

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From Naturalists to Environmentalists
by Andy Beahm

The beginnings of Maine Audubon in the Portland Society of Natural History