Category: Home, Personal Possessions, Decorations & keepsakes
Item 10590
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1850 Media: Hair
Item 11848
Souvenir Plaque of the Wadsworth-Longfellow House, Portland, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Portland Media: Plaster
Exhibit
Settlers' clothing had to be durable and practical to hold up against hard work and winters. From the 1700s to the mid 1800s, the women of Maine learned to sew by making samplers.
Exhibit
Lock of George Washington's Hair
Correspondence between Elizabeth Wadsworth, her father Peleg Wadsworth and Martha Washington's secretary about the gift of a lock of George Washington's hair to Eliza.
