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Tate House Museum

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 2 of 3

"… to a short (albeit too long to be a mini dress) navy and lime green stripe skirt. The latter is somewhat reminiscent of prominent mini dress…"

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1970-1980 - Page 1 of 3

"… jacket labelled "Crazy Horse", and a wine and navy blue window pane check pant suit with cuffed pants and zip front closure jacket."

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 2 of 4

"Ida May Lane's speckled navy and pale blue dolman sleeve dress, with a long back zip and black belt, is mid-calf length with a fully flared skirt…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Beniah Harding

"… the Great Depression, and his enrollment in the Navy. Transcription of Clip 1: This is Aaron Maxwell at Ben Harding’s place at 3:05 on the 5th of…"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 14 of 17

"… and all other recruits for the army and navy, between April 12, 1861, and December 31, 1865, was $4,584,636."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Bangor Cornet Band member, 1864

"… long frock coat & pants cap about way between a navy and a fighting man pants trimmed with gold cordon the seems The coat of arms on the front of…"

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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Wadsworth Era: 1786-1807

"Henry left home to join the Navy around 1800. He was killed by an explosion during the Battle of Tripoli in 1804."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Civil War

"Some island men went into the infantry or Navy. Others, John Gilley of Beech Hill among them, joined the First Maine Cavalry. John did not survive."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding During and after the Civil War - 1861 to 1900

"… in Thomaston during 1861 to serve in the US Navy. In the following year, only two ships were produced, one appropriately named “General McLellan,”…"

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Surry by the Bay - Weathervane Dispute

"Hall, a former Navy officer, who checked with the Adjutant General of the State of Maine and he concluded that “Surry is acting with proper respect…"

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - 1925 National Governors' Association Convention

"Participants were treated to a ride in the Navy Airship Shenandoah, which took them from Bar Harbor to Passamaquoddy Bay, to Mt."

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 2 of 3

"One is a V neck navy blue cocktail dress with trumpet wrist sleeves and a skirt tightly gathered at the hips to drape in a cascade from the waist…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - U.S. Flagship Hartford

"… I am writing to inform you that I have joined the Navy. I am on The Gunboat Kennebec currently off the coast of Mississippi."

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Washburn-Norlands Living History Center

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1910-1920 - Page 2 of 2

"The navy gaberdine suit, albeit with a skirt showing signs of later alterations or updating, reflects the popular peplum jacket style."

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Lincoln, Maine - Gary Gordon

"In 1996, the U.S. Navy named a Roll-on/Roll-off cargo ship U.S.N.S. Gordon in honor of Gary Gordon. He received many awards after he died, but the…"

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Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"Navy. Avery also served in World War II, returning to inactive duty after five and a half years of service with the rank of Captain and the Legion of…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Old Town Hall and Grant Building

"Navy and for more than the last ten years by R.M. Tate Co. Tate's, like Grant's, is a department store that offers inexpensive merchandise. X"

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Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"Thomas served in the navy during World War I. After his discharge in 1919, he established his own office in Portland, where he practiced until the…"

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Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"… attaining the rank of lieutenant commander in the navy. In 1946, he resumed his architectural career, working days for the New York firm of…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 1 of 2

"… large amounts of timber for the Royal Navy, which he seemingly had no interest in helping with."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"also served in the Union Navy as a Capt on the revenue cutter USS Delaware patrolling the Potomac River."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"After joining the US Navy as a Sea Bee during World War II, Donald met and married Marguerite Hodgkins in 1946."