Keywords: Card photographs.
Item 74754
Wendell B. Willett identification card, Saco, 1942
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1942 Location: Saco Media: Ink on paper, photograph
Item 4301
H.N. Fairbanks, 30th Maine Regiment, ca. 1864
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1864 Media: Photographic print
Item 52783
64 Free Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Walter L Card Use: Dwelling - Two Family and Store
Item 61357
81 Lincoln Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Ella I. Card Use: Dwelling - Two family
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
Promoting Rockland Through a Stereopticon, 1875
Frank Crockett and photographer J.P. Armbrust took stereo views of Rockland's downtown, industry, and notable homes in the 1870s as a way to promote tourism to the town.
Site Page
Early Maine Photography - Early Maine Photography at Maine Historical Society
"… albumen print, carte de visite, cabinet cards, or even lantern slides and glass negatives could be considered early, as many find their origins…"
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Hotel Willows, Farmington, ca. 1910
"The card advertises a garage for autos, a good livery, and also that a coach will meet all trains coming to Farmington."
Story
A first encounter with Bath and its wonderful history
by John Decker
Visiting the Maine Maritime Museum as part of a conference
