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Item 10721

Abbot Agricultural Fair, 1921

Contributed by: Abbot Historical Society Date: 1921 Location: Abbot Media: Photographic print

Item 105666

Annie Moriarty's colbalt blue dress, Lewiston, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Lewiston Media: silk, cotton, metal

Item 13816

Baseball Game, Oxford County Fair, 1921

Contributed by: Norway Historical Society Date: 1921-08-30 Location: Norway; Paris Media: Photograph, positive, matt finish

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Dress made by Martha Willey Riley, Cherryfield, ca. 1912

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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Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.

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Otisfield's One-Room Schoolhouses

Many of the one-room schoolhouses in Otisfield, constructed from 1839 through the early twentieth century, are featured here. The photos, most of which also show teachers and children, were taken between 1898 and 1998.