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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin self portrait, 1889

"John Martin self portrait, 1889 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description John Martin (1823-1904) of…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Illustrations: Martin Family

"… Illustrations: Martin Family"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Martin-Raynes-Stevens Family Trees

"Martin-Raynes Family  Raynes-Stevens Family  Mt. Hope Cemetery, Bangor G. Fred and Annie Martin Snow X"

Early Maine Photography - Family Groups

"This three generation portrait places a grandmother at the center flanked by a mother and father. Two boys stand behind them and a third sits in…"

Music in Maine - Longfellow Family Music

"Members of the Longfellow family created and used manuscript song pages to entertain family and guests, including songs popular in the 1750s and…"

Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 1 of 2

"While Leland’s artist remains unknown, the Day portrait was the work of Portland portrait painter Charles O. Cole."

Early Maine Photography - Art

"The desire to reproduce a family portrait is represented in a circa 1865 tintype copy of an oil painting of a man in the dress of the 1830s or 40s."

Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"Regretfully, the Cummings family genealogy contains no biographical information about Zip. Portrait of Zip, ca. 1845Maine Historical Society"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 1 of 3

"Tintype portrait of Abraham Lincoln, ca. 1864Maine Historical Society Abraham Lincoln This tintype of a print of Abraham Lincoln by an unknown maker…"

Early Maine Photography - Portland Photographers

"… A Portland native, Howe made many daguerreotype portraits in the 1850s, including eleven in the Collection."

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 1 of 2

"… seems as much a collection of individual portraits as it does a group picture. The inscription on the reverse that “This picture is to be given to…"

Early Maine Photography - Post-Mortem & Mourning

"Her absence is conspicuous in this touching portrait of a young family facing the future without a wife and mother."

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…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"Thus, his image is known only through portraits painted during his lifetime, including this one that has survived through a daguerreotype copy."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 84-107

"People and events discussed include: The Berger Family Dr. P. B. Mills Fred Foster John Z. Ricker Mount Holyoke Weather records Wood Bishop & Co."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 22-71

"… he previously included in other writing about his family's history, his childhood and early work experiences, his introduction to and passion for…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Interior, John Martin store, Center Street, Bangor, 1864

"… 567 of a journal he was writing reflecting on his family, life, and activities, John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor drew an illustration of the north…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin homestead, Bangor, ca. 1864

"… Description John Martin (1823-1904) and his family moved into this house at 130 Center St. in Bangor in about 1852."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Elmer Martin, Bangor, 1865

"… scrapbooks, drew his son Elmer (1860-1870) in the family's back yard in Bangor in August 1865. The illustration is on page 124 of Martin's "Scrap…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 0-73

"… with a genealogy of his and his wife's families, his mother's life in Ellsworth, her marriage to John Martin Sr., his own childhood, including his…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Picnic, Fort Point Light, and Fort Pownal, 1865

"… River on August 10, 1865. Martin wrote, "My family as a whole had never been down river before and I concluded to give the day to the whole family…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrapbook 1: 1885-1899, Katahdin Iron Works, Silver Lake Hotel

"… about in his journal and other scrapbooks: his family history, his childhood, and his various jobs."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 121-end

"Mail boxes. He wrote again about his family's history in Ellsworth, his childhood in Brewer and Hampden, his lameness, his mother's illnesses, his…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin gate design, Bangor, 1867

"… five volumes of recollections about his family and his life. He often commented on contemporary events as well."