Keywords: Postcard companies
Item 27942
Front Street postcard, Bath, ca. 1914
Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: circa 1914 Location: Bath Media: Postcard
Item 66122
Maine publicity postcard, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1935 Media: Linen texture postcard
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
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.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Eastern Illustrating Company
"Herman Cassens, a young entrepreneur, started a postcard company, the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company, in the mid-coast town of Belfast…"
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Ice Castle in Presque Isle during Winter Carnival, 1937
"… Society Description This 1937 postcard pictures an ice castle in the town of Presque Isle built during the Presque Isle Winter Carnival…"
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
