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Site Pages
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Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Theater
"… had balconies, sloped floors, fancy seats, a small concession stand, an ice cream parlor, and a pool room."
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Historic Clothing Collection - Organizational Uniforms
"This image gallery offers examples from this small, yet hopefully growing, sub-sect of the collection."
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Historic Clothing Collection - Organizational Uniforms
"This image gallery offers examples from this small, yet hopefully growing, sub-sect of the collection."
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Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals
"Works Cited "Dr. C. P. Small, Dentist Lincoln, Maine ." Mattanawcook Observer. 1.3/4 (1982): 155. Print."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economy on Mt. Desert Island
"Small family run businesses and other self-employed families were able to weather the troubled times with mininal, if any, losses."
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"… million troops from America, 168 might just be a small fraction, but our town’s people played a part in it."
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 4 of 4
"1960Maine Historical Society The collection's small group of late 1950s dressy garments include a raspberry pink rayon taffeta cocktail dress with…"
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Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit
"… fire "destroyed two buildings and displaced four businesses." The second fire "displaced six businesses," and destroyed the "Lake Mall and an…"
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"Another feeling was pride because not many small towns had mills, and with a mill the town will get more popularity and we may become a bigger town."
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Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 3 of 3
"… financially comfortable genteel members of its small and scattered communities kept abreast of fashion."
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 2 of 4
"… sleeves (wide at the wrist), attached pelerine (small cape) trimmed with wide silk fringe, and a front closure with ten small circular metal…"
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Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones
"… Thomas and Anne Carrington were operators for the small switchboard. When the buzzer rang to tell them that someone was calling they would connect…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 5, pages 77-96
"His own small store was robbed three times, which contributed to its demise. Part 5, pages 77-96 People and topic mentioned include: Lincoln…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 108-128
"Small R. W. Rollins Wheelwright & Clark Cornet Band James Dunning Dr. L. B. Morrison Augusta rally"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 3 of 4
"… wearable lightweight gray/green rayon crepe, with small yellow printed flowers, capped sleeves, and a high waist with ties to the back."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The John Ruggles House
"… 2008Thomaston Historical Society At one time a small one-storey building, used as Mr. Ruggles law office, stood just below to the east."
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"… Historical Society Welcome to Guilford, a small central Maine mill town with an industrial heritage reaching back two hundred years; young, as…"
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Lincoln, Maine - Lower Main Street looking north, Lincoln, ca. 1948
"On the right is Milt Knight's Variety Store. The small building is the Shanty Restaurant with Sadie's Lunch next to it."
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"Their businesses included restaurants, groceries, and clothing, paper, and fancy goods shops. Some would even work in the mill in addition to their…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Early Twentieth Century
"… Society Lewiston's Mary King Scrimgeour's small, but outstanding, group of late-1890s to early 1900s fashionable garments segue this overview into…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1890-1900 - Page 1 of 3
"… Peck's in Lewiston, Libby's in Portland, and in small town dry-goods stores. Reasonably priced plain skirts, jackets, and blouses that became the…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 1 of 4
"In the 1860s and 1870s small thread mills, such as the Haskell Silk Company of Westbrook proliferated, producing the special twist thread in high…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 4 of 4
"A small horsehair stuffed cushion shaped bustle support remains attached to the inner waistband of Sarah Wilson's black watered silk skirt."
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1830-1850 - Page 1 of 3
"… of the natural waist placed new emphasis on small waists and made lacing corsets important. Gigot sleeve dress, ca."