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Title: Maine publicity postcard, ca. 1935

Contributed by: Boston Public Library

Date: circa 1935

Media: Linen texture postcard

Title: Sportsman's paradise postcard, ca. 1935

Contributed by: Boston Public Library

Date: circa 1935

Media: Linen texture postcard

Title: Maine tourist postcard, ca. 1935

Contributed by: Boston Public Library

Date: circa 1935

Media: linen texture postcard

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.

Picturing Henry

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's popularity in the 19th century is reflected by the number of images of him -- in a variety of media -- that were produced and reproduced, some to go with published works of his, but many to be sold to the public on cards and postcards.

In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age

"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.