Keywords: Brown Company Glass
Item 9756
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1901 Location: Sanford Media: Photographic print
Item 105887
C.F. Brown's Store, Somerville, ca. 1915
Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1915 Location: Somerville Media: Glass Plate Negative
Item 37382
383 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Brown Co. Use: Storage
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Lincoln County through the Eastern Eye
The Penobscot Marine Museum’s photography collections include nearly 50,000 glass plate negatives of images for "real photo" postcards produced by the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast. This exhibit features postcards from Lincoln County.
Exhibit
Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye
The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.
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Lincoln, Maine - W.A. Brown: Jack of all trades
"Where would we get our eyes checked and glasses in Lincoln if he hadn’t had a glasses store. Without the first jewelry store, maybe I wouldn’t have a…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 3 of 4
"… ensemble, is notable for iridescent hexagonal glass bead buttons and edge trimming, large looped up bustle, and skirt front with an asymmetrically…"