Keywords: wool factory
Item 80482
Letter to Sarah Tarbox from brother Valentine, Brooksville, 1851
Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: 1851 Location: Westport Island; Belfast; Sedgwick; Brooksville Media: Ink on paper
Item 9059
Maine Spinning Company mill, Skowhegan, ca. 1925
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1925 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Northern Threads: Civil War-era clothing
An exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads, Part 1," featuring American Civil War civilian and military clothing, 1860 to 1869.
Exhibit
Silk Manufacturing in Westbrook
Cultivation of silkworms and manufacture of silk thread was touted as a new agricultural boon for Maine in the early 19th century. However, only small-scale silk production followed. In 1874, the Haskell Silk Co. of Westbrook changed that, importing raw silk, and producing silk machine twist threat, then fabrics, until its demise in 1930.
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - HISTORY
"The bottom tip of Factory Island and the Saco shoreline are visible on upper left. X Wildlife abounds, and includes deer, fox, and all manner of…"
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Life on a Tidal River - Fashion of the '40s
"Boy's snow suit, Bangor, ca. 1940 Brown, wool, double-breasted boys snowsuitBangor Historical Society During the war, because so many men were in…"
