Maine Memory Network

Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"… less formal and more creative in composing studio portraits. In an ambrotype, little Eleanor Bradley Peters proudly wears her large fur lined…"

Bowdoin College Museum of Art

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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"Thus, his image is known only through portraits painted during his lifetime, including this one that has survived through a daguerreotype copy."

Early Maine Photography - The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection

"Soon his criteria expanded to include portrait photographs of Maine people by local photographers. In junior high school, Earle Shettleworth read…"

Early Maine Photography - War - Page 1 of 2

"… John Sawyer entered Dartmouth College, graduating in 1786. Ordained in 1787, he preached in his native Oxford for the next nine years."

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 2 of 3

"Graduating from Bowdoin in 1823, Fessenden became one of Maine’s most successful attorneys. Between 1831 and 1854 he served in the Maine Legislature…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Primary and intermediate school, Bangor, 1865

"Their daughter, Annie, he noted, graduated from the intermediate school "under Miss Berniece Morse" on Saturday, Feb. 17, 1866."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Narrative History: Maine Swedish Colony

"Portrait of William W. ThomasNew Sweden Historical Society In the early 1860s, President Abraham Lincoln selected thirty war consuls whose job it…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"

"… assistant at Maine Historical Society and a student in the University of Southern Maine's New England and American Studies graduate program."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Man on the Street"

"… proceeded to romp away with saluterian honors at graduation. Upon leaving school he entered the employ of the City of Portland as rod man in the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"… and several of his family members had their portraits painted by Famed artist John Singleton Copley, who perhaps uncoincidentally was allegedly…"

Music in Maine - Military Marching Bands

"… since 1875, Chandler’s Band plays annually at graduation ceremonies. Chandler's Band uniform, ca."

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"At 18, Nordica graduated from the New England Conservatory and began performing in America and Europe."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… Town Reports) Nora Rackliff Graduation portrait, Farmington, 1922Farmington Historical Society Nora Rackliff Typing Certificate…"