Keywords: wedding gift
Item 6400
Blanchard/Porter wedding quilt, 1850
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850 Location: Cumberland Center Media: Cotton, linen
Item 12331
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Labbe, Brunswick, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1950 Location: Brunswick Media: Photograph, print
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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.
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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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Historic Clothing Collection - Fashions Far & Away
"… ranging in use from personal effects, bespoke gifts, and those likely intended for the Chinese tourism market."
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1920-1930 - Page 1 of 3
"Marguerite Waterman Cobb. Perhaps it is preserved in its new, unworn state because it was a gift or the wrong size."
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An enjoyable conference, Portland 2021
by John C. Decker, Danville, Pennsylvania
Some snippets from a 4-day conference by transportation historians in Portland, September 7-11, 2021
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Florence Ahlquist Link's WWII service in the WAVES
by Earlene Ahlquist Chadbourne
Florence Ahlquist, age 20, was trained to repair the new aeronautical cameras by the US Navy in WWII
