Keywords: maid
Item 31673
Laura Allen, companion, and maid Minnie Taylor, Saco, ca. 1890
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1890 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print
Item 15394
Houlton Grange stage curtain, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1930 Location: Houlton; Springfield Media: Paint on canvas
Exhibit
Independence and Challenges: The Life of Hannah Pierce
Hannah Pierce (1788-1873) of West Baldwin, who remained single, was the educated daughter of a moderately wealthy landowner and businessman. She stayed at the family farm throughout her life, operating the farm and her various investments -- always in close touch with her siblings.
Exhibit
Fashionable Maine: early twentieth century clothing
Maine residents kept pace with the dramatic shift in women’s dress that occurred during the short number of years preceding and immediately following World War I. The long restrictive skirts, stiff collars, body molding corsets and formal behavior of earlier decades quickly faded away and the new straight, dropped waist easy-to-wear clothing gave mobility and freedom of movement in tune with the young independent women of the casual, post-war jazz age generation.
Site Page
"… a month or more and brought along their ladies’ maids, butlers, and chauffeurs who stayed close by in the lesser quarters at the Inn or in smaller…"
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Andrew Anderson
"She became a first maid inspector- do you want to hear a story about that? I was in the service and a friar came in from Charlestown media and saw us…"
Story
Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR
