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Keywords: Photographic prints

Historical Items

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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 16772

May Sarton, York, 1985

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1985 Location: York Media: Photographic print

Item 13336

Photographic study in Aroostook County, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1895 Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 99096

17 Frost Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Anna C. Barrett Use: Barn

Item 99241

90-92 Gilman Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Ernest N. Leavitt Use: Print Shop

Item 35947

15-17 Carroll Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Clyde B. Burnet Use: Dwelling - Single family

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 150721

Additions to Home of John J. McCarthy, Lewiston, 1936

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1936 Location: Lewiston Client: John J. McCarthy Architect: Coombs Brothers Architects

Item 151034

Additions to the Gardiner Public Library for Mr. R.P. Hazzard, Gardiner, 1929-1930

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1929–1930 Location: Gardiner Client: Gardiner Public Library Architect: John P. Thomas

Item 150326

Rearrangement of Blaine Mansion for Governor's Residence, Augusta, 1919

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1919 Location: Augusta; Augusta Client: State of Maine Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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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

Chansonetta Stanley Emmons: Staging the Past

Chansonetta Stanley Emmons (1858-1937) of Kingfield, Maine, experimented with the burgeoning artform of photography. Starting in 1897, Emmons documented the lives of people, many in rural and agricultural regions in Maine and around the world. Often described as recalling a bygone era, this exhibition features glass plate negatives and painted lantern slides from the collections of the Stanley Museum in Kingfield on deposit at Maine Historical Society, that present a time of rapid change, from 1897 to 1926.

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In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age

"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.

Site Pages

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Early Maine Photography - Early Maine Photography at Maine Historical Society

"What makes a photograph "early"? Unidentified women, ca. 1860Maine Historical Society In respect to photography, the widely accepted definition…"

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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"To the right was the printing establishment of Thurston, Foster and Company. Everything in this scene was destroyed twenty years later in the Great…"

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Early Maine Photography - Occupational

"Other trades include printing and harness making. Five tintypes of Bangor origin depict river drivers in their work clothes and spiked leather boots."

My Maine Stories

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Story

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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My Vietnam service detailed in Life Magazine
by Henry B. Severance III

My company's service was documented by war photographer Catherine Leroy in Life Magazine.

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.