Maine Memory Network

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…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century

"… were initially confined to commercial use, making items such as underwear and Civil War uniforms."

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

"1835Maine Historical Society Rarity makes examples of old work clothes, and what they tell us, among the most valued objects in a collection."

Historic Clothing Collection - Themed Image Galleries

"… but as the examples in the overview make clear from the eighteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Maine's populace kept up with changing styles…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1930-1940 - Page 1 of 4

"… 1920s, rayon had been improved and developed to make a wide range of pleasing and modest priced fabrics."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1970-1980 - Page 2 of 3

"… Historical Society Synthetic fibers were used to make pile or faux fur fabrics, an example of which is a short roll collar faux fur bolero jacket."

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid Twentieth Century

"… in the collection to tell of the War year's make-do-and-mend fabric scarcity, or regulations restricting garment manufacture."

Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1870 to 1900

"Both feature high face encircling collars make room for voluminous sleeve trends. Also allowing for fuller sleeves, is a London made cream light wool…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 1 of 4

"… in the late 1950s to early 1960s, the custom of girls and young women dressing or wearing hair and make-up like their mothers, faded away."

Stockholm Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"They cut hay in the salt marshes and turned ancient forest trails into paths and dirt roads. I mean now to give you a history of my discovering of…"

Skowhegan Community History - Farming in the Skowhegan Area

"… markets like blueberries, sweet corn and low cost hay. Sweet corn from Maine was popular all across the nation."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works

"The hay must be used with entire economy. You will, under the direction of Mr. Gleason, attend to the objects of the wood, the rock, the teams, the…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"… around 4:00 on the afternoon of April 30th in a hay shed owned by J. Frank Green at 176 Broad Street on the west side of the Kenduskeag Stream."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Atticus: A Fugitive Slave

"The Susan had shipped a cargo of lime and hay from East Thomaston, Maine, to Savannah, Georgia, and was to be repaired in that town."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"… hard, helping to feed the animals, bale the hay and weed the gardens, they were well-educated."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… made up of sawdust, charcoal powder, straw, or hay. Occasionally, brick or stone-walled ice houses were built into a bank of earth with an entrance…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… made up of sawdust, charcoal powder, straw, or hay. Occasionally, brick or stone-walled ice houses were built into a bank of earth with an entrance…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"In 1840, he fell from a load of hay, breaking his collar bone and four ribs, which brought on a fever and further curving of his spine."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block

"… where a careless person left a flame near the hay. The fire was across the street from the Ledyard Block. During and after A.D."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"Haying c. 1910Farmington Historical Society During the 1780’s and 1790’s, corn and grain were used as money for trade."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"… consisted of potatoes, lumber, starch, and hay while inbound freight was fertilizer, grain, and flour."

Acadian Archives

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"Fred Titcomb's horses, load of hay, Falmouth Corner, early 1900sNorth Yarmouth Historical Society Request from Elizabeth B."