Keywords: 1930s photographs
Item 100326
Contributed by: Tate House Museum Date: 1931 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 12373
Mary Lane McMillan, Rome, 1933
Contributed by: Hollingsworth Fine Arts Date: circa 1933 Location: Rome; Belgrade Lakes Media: Printed black and white photo in original brochure
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.
Exhibit
Capturing Arts and Artists in the 1930s
Emmie Bailey Whitney of the Lewiston Journal Saturday Magazine and her husband, noted amateur photographer G. Herbert Whitney, captured in words and photographs the richness of Maine's arts scene during the Great Depression.
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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection
"… evening, an impressive and telling feat for the 1930s. The Gannett family were also well known aviation enthusiasts."
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1930-1940 - Page 1 of 4
"… the suit ensemble resembles those seen in many 1930s photographs. Other daytime ensembles in the collection include a plain yellow-beige, slim…"
Story
In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood
An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.
