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Historical Items

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Item 26946

Memorial Day, Presque Isle, 1888

Contributed by: Turner Memorial Library through Presque Isle Historical Society Date: 1888-05-30 Location: Presque Isle Media: Photographic print

Item 103635

Silhouette of an unidentified woman, ca. 1855

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1855 Location: Bangor Media: Ambrotype

Item 28017

Mildred Thomas and Harold Sawyer, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Farmington Public Library Date: circa 1910 Media: Handpainted photograph,gum bi-chromate process

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

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.

Exhibit

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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Site Page

Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 1 of 2

"At the age of twenty-one in 1845 he rented a room in Portland’s City Hall in order to make crayon portraits of local residents."

Site Page

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 1 of 3

"… portrait of George Washington from the East Room. In 1817 the Madisons returned to Montpelier, their Virginia country estate, where James Madison…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Memorial Day, Presque Isle, 1888

"… "Bouquet." Above the second floor is the sign, "Photography Rooms." Note the late 1880's fashions."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Story of the "little nun"
by Felicia Garant

My grandmother made a nun's outfit for me