Maine Memory Network

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2

"Good Cheer Lodge hat, Guilford, ca. 1875Guilford Historical Society FRANKLIN HOUSE, TURNER HOUSE, BRAEBURN HOTEL AND EDES BUILDING Turner…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"… multiple layers of clothing and sometimes even a hat. The oldest boy was appointed the janitor and had to arrive at school early, bring in the wood…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - A Call to Temperance

"… Irish-Americans in a cartoon style with the hat and pipe still used to symbolize the Irish. "Burns is a devil when he's drunk...."

Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music

"… wear fashion trends, including cowboy boots and hats, and “western yoke” pipe trimmed outfits. Hal Lone Pine and the Lone Pine Mountaineers…"

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"… sought to mimic stage extravagance with top hats, tuxedos, floor length gowns, elegant coats, and elbow length gloves."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"Intense exploitation of beaver for fur hats in Europe eliminated the winter food supply for the food foraging native people of northern Maine."

Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"… awning on the building appears to say, "Clothing, Hats, Capes". David T. Stinson (1815-1873) was the son of David Stinson Sr."

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"… to go to a famous place to by furs to make coats, hats, and scarves. Silver furs were very popular and there were also red and black furs."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… the pole, forty feet from the ground, swing his hat in the air and give the emblem of liberty a name."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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