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Keywords: Maine artist

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These sites were created for each contributing partner or as part of collaborative community projects through Maine Memory. Learn about collaborative projects on MMN.


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Early Maine Photography - Art

"Some Maine artists offered the option to have portraits painted based on photographic images. Others used photography to document their work and…"

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Early Maine Photography - Occupational

"In contrast is the elegant appearance of Portland artists John Greenleaf Cloudman and Charles Frederick Kimball."

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Early Maine Photography - Portland Photographers

"Hanscom, who signed himself as a "traveling artist" on a circa 1860 ambrotype of Adam Winslow and his grandson Adam."

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Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 1 of 2

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

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Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 2 of 2

"… Deering sisters are fashionably dressed and artistically posed around their mother, Anna Margaret Holwell Deering. The daughter of Major John Z."

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Early Maine Photography - Studio Portraits

"… the Portland Advertiser that he had "engaged an artist of acknowledged merit to design furniture, etc., etc."

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Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 2 of 2

"Of the painters, sculptors, and carvers who worked in the city, George Henry Bailey pursued the dual professions of artist and veterinarian."

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Artists and Inventors of Biddeford

"Artists and Inventors of Biddeford Creativity has flourished throughout Biddeford's history. Particularly in the arts and technology, the folks in…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …next came the artists and rusticators.

"…next came the artists and rusticators. Thomas Cole’s View across Frenchman’s Bay from Mount Desert Island after a Squall, 1845. Oil on canvas."

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Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

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Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

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Lincoln, Maine - Main Street

"… SELF-EXPRESSIVE (taking a non-traditional, often artistic, approach to a topic). The responses reflect a variety of perspectives on the topic—all…"

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Music in Maine - MAKE

"MAKE Music makers include musicians, artists, and craftspeople who make instruments, write songs, and make music in the home and community settings."

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Blue Hill, Maine - Adelaide Pearson

"… she was a seminal figure in attracting artists and craftspeople to the area, creating the foundation for Blue Hill's growth as a cultural center…"

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Music in Maine - Bluegrass Music

"Throughout the 1950s and 60s, Hawkes recorded some of the most highly regarded country, bluegrass, and rockabilly songs, including by artists Dick…"

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Music in Maine - Music in Maine

"Yet they are all uniquely Maine sounds. Music from around the world flooded into Maine through maritime trading ports in the 18th and 19th centuries."

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Music in Maine - Community Music

"In 2004 the Commission designated me a Master Artist in traditional French Canadian dance, providing the chance to pass the French dance traditions…"

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Blue Hill, Maine - The Musical Culture of Blue Hill

"… now accepts a total of 50 pre-professional young artists (20 violinists, 14 cellists, 9 violists and 7 pianists)."

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Lincoln, Maine - Wartime Lincoln

"… SELF-EXPRESSIVE (taking a non-traditional, often artistic, approach to a topic). The responses reflect a variety of perspectives on the topic—all…"

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Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… – most luxuriant and George Tozier – most artistic. The evening ended with a magnificent Sesquicentennial Ball."

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Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"Perkins, V.C. A Mining Boom in Maine: Blue Hill, 1876-1883, Reprinted from an issue in New England Quarterly. Porter Joseph W."

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Music in Maine - HEAR

"… Jesse Walter Fewkes traveled to Calais, Maine in March 1890 to test inventor Thomas Edison’s new phonograph in field conditions."

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Blue Hill, Maine - Welcome to the town of Blue Hill!

"… day, farmers, fishermen, merchants, educators, artists, summer residents, and retirees have come to call Blue Hill their home."

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Music in Maine - Drumsticks, 1861

"Drumsticks, 1861 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Franklin C. Kimball (1844-1912) used these drumsticks while serving…"