Maine Memory Network

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"Prominent Women Text By: Strong School 7th and 8th Graders, 2011-2012 Julia Harris May poetry collection, 1903Farmington Public Library…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Allies & Allegiance: Military comradery at the Centennial, 1920

"In many ways, WWI introduced the United States as a world power, and military demonstrations solidified its new role."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"… their society: generally men hunted game which women in turn cleaned and preserved, and men cleared the fields where women planted and harvested…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"Women in Colonial Economies Copy, deed from James and Rachell Berry to Proprietors, page 1 of 3Maine Historical Society For their part, as…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 3 of 4

"Women in Colonial Economies The work of Hallowell, Maine resident Martha Ballard (1735-1812) exemplifies female settlers’ varied and extensive…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 4 of 4

"Women in Colonial Economies About the Author Sara T. Damiano, Ph.D. is a historian of women and gender in early America and the Atlantic World."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"Kline also served some time in the U.S. military. After her writing career kicked off, she went back to Yale University and the University of…"

Tate House Museum

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Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"(The U.R.K.P. was disbanded in the early 1950s). The Third Battalion was located in Calais with its Company #11 in Eastport."

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Music in Maine - Community Music

"They offered women equal voting rights long before the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. At its height in 1907, Maine had 417 Granges with…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Northern Threads: Two centuries of dress at Maine Historical Society - Page 1 of 3

"… in middle and upper-middle class womenswear; military uniforms; special occasion and bridal. Very few examples of work-a-day or everyday wear are…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid Twentieth Century

"The exception being Korean and Vietnam War-era military uniforms, which are well represented at MHS."

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"Lillian Blauvelt and Opera Fashion Lillian Blauvelt in Romeo and Juliet, London, 1903Maine Historical Society Lillian Blauvelt's fan, ca."

Historic Clothing Collection - Northern Threads: Two centuries of dress at Maine Historical Society - Page 3 of 3

"It includes garments, military uniforms and accessories, organized into themed vignettes. The in-person physical exhibition of Northern Threads Part…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1920-1930 - Page 1 of 3

"… in southern states (originally developed for military purposes) were quickly adapted for rayon production."

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"The women and children sometimes traveled to the water's edge to pick fiddleheads. They also grew Jerusalem artichokes, which were well liked among…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 1 of 3

"Bates Mill in Lewiston produced vast quantities of textiles for war purposes, from uniform fabric and hospital bedding, to parachutes and life rafts."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Fashion in Bangor, 1865

"… but the crown and a visor." He suggested that women's fashions changed when men went off to the Civil War."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - A Murder In Strong

"It was in this trial that the defense attorneys decided to invoke a new rule of evidence and put Lawrence Doyle on the stand to speak for himself."

Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 1 of 2

"In 2018, support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America grant program facilitated item-level cataloguing…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Northern Threads: Two centuries of dress at Maine Historical Society - Page 2 of 3

"In response, MHS broadened our collection vocabulary to include historic clothing, costume, and dress."

Historic Clothing Collection - Fabric Adaptive Reuse

"… and new dresses required many yards of fabric, women were familiar with the custom of either themselves or their dressmakers altering and updating…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 1 of 4

"Sometimes a group of women clubbed together to make the purchase and share. On the one hand, machine sewing mitigating the endless hours women spent…"