Keywords: Photographic Processes
Item 27888
Zina Hyde & Co. Chandlery, Pierce Photographic Gallery, Bath ca. 1865
Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: circa 1865 Location: Bath Media: Photographic print
Item 36016
Anidrosis Sanitarium, Skowhegan, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1880 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print
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Eternal Images: Photographing Childhood
From the earliest days of photography doting parents from across Maine sought to capture images of their young children. The studio photographs often reflect the families' images of themselves and their status or desired status.
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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.
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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…"
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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 2 of 3
"… just prior to the availability of the ambrotype process, which indicates that this picture is probably copied from an earlier daguerreotype."
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21st and 19th century technology and freelance photography
by Brendan Bullock
My work is a mash-up of cutting edge technology and 19th century chemistry techniques.
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Black Lives Matter Protest Portland, Maine
by Joanne Arnold
Documenting the signage at Portland Police Station following the BLM Protests of June 2020
