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Keywords: Photographs
Historical Items Showing 3 of 7751 View All
Item 14178
Title: Fred H. Palmer
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1885
Location: Portland
Media: Photographic print
Item 12829
Title: Cyrus Davis, Waterville, ca. 1914
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1914
Location: Waterville
Media: Photographic print
Item 4111
Title: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Isle of Wight, 1868
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1868
Media: Photograph
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Item 35947
Address: 15-17 Carroll Street, Portland
Owner in 1924: Clyde B. Burnet
Use: Dwelling - Single family
Item 36388
Address: 49 Pine Street, Portland
Owner in 1924: Devisees of William T. Kilborn
Style: Vernacular Victorian
Use: Dwelling - Single family
Exhibits Showing 3 of 37 View All
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Eternal Images: Photographing Childhood
From the earliest days of photography doting parents from across Maine sought to capture images of their young children. The studio photographs often reflect the families' images of themselves and their status or desired status.
Exhibit
Maine Streets: The Postcard View
Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.
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Maine Through the Eyes of George W. French
George French, a native of Kezar Falls and graduate of Bates College, worked at several jobs before turning to photography as his career. He served for many years as photographer for the Maine Development Commission, taking pictures intended to promote both development and tourism.
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village
The history of a small western Maine community north of Farmington as told by a team consisting of Strong Historical Society, Strong Elementary School, and Strong Public Library. Exhibit topics include Strong's prominence in the wood products industry (it was once the "Toothpick Capital of the World"), the "Bridge that Changed the Map," schools and educational history, clubs and organizations, "Fly Rod" Crosby, the first Maine guide, and a rich student section related to the Civil War and post-Civil War era in the town.