Keywords: women's fashion
Item 15617
Houlton Women's Club Pagent, 1914
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1914-06-12 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Item 54280
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1932 Location: Paris Media: Ink, pencil on paper, fabric
Exhibit
Women at the turn of the 20th century were increasingly involved in paid work outside the home. For wage-earning women in the Old Port section of Portland, the jobs ranged from canning fish and vegetables to setting type. A study done in 1907 found many women did not earn living wages.
Exhibit
The mainspring of fashion is the process whereby members of one class imitate the styles of another, who in turn are driven to ever new expedients of fashionable change.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Fashions Far & Away
"Fashions Far & Away View the Fashions Far & Away Slide Show Imported garments and fabrics are an integral part of American fashion, and of the…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Fashion in Bangor, 1865
"… crown and a visor." He suggested that women's fashions changed when men went off to the Civil War."
Story
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
Story
Catching live bait with Grandfather
by Randy Randall
We never bought live bait for fishing. Grandfather caught all the minnows and shiners we needed.
