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Early Maine Photography - Studio Portraits

"Studio Portraits Studio Portrait Slideshow Click on image for full slideshow Beginning the 1840s, photographers sought to make the connection…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Mildred Thomas and Harold Sawyer, ca. 1910

"Harold was the son of Charles Sawyer who had a studio in Farmington from 1904-1920. His handpainted photographs were very popular."

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Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 2 of 2

"… portraiture by using painted backgrounds in their studios. A tintype shows a formally posed young woman set against a classical railing and trees…"

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Early Maine Photography - Portland Photographers

"McKenney. Marcus Ormsbee moved his studio from Boston to Portland in 1843 and practiced in the city through 1850."

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Historic Hallowell - Natural Resource to Finished Product

"… two stone-cutting sheds, a modeling and sculpture studio, carpenter's shop, blacksmith's shop, stable, wagon house, storehouse, boiler-house with…"

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Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"… Society Collection depict pairs of women in novel studio poses. Two of the tintypes show the same pair of ladies playing chess."

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Historic Hallowell - The Stevens Training Center Serenaders

"… also the Conductor-Accompanist, ventured into the studios of Augusta radio station WRDO. There they recorded six songs for a record album entitled…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Oak Hotel

"Miss Oak also had a photography studio in the hotel. She had been a photographer since 1912 and wanted to expand her business."

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Early Maine Photography - War - Page 2 of 2

"… before they left or were photographed in camp studios. Large numbers of pictures of the common Maine soldier have survived, and the Maine…"

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Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 1 of 2

"… aspiring young sculptor Paul Akers maintained a studio in Portland. Photographer George M. Howe’s daguerreotype of Aker’s 1849 bust of Charles…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 4 of 4

"Back in his studio after this assignment, Homer worked on a series of war-related paintings based on his sketches."

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Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 1 of 2

"What brought them together in a photographer’s studio – school, friendship, or family? Other group daguerreotypes in the Society’s collection are…"

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Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"It is not known if the studio was located on the first or second floor. Note that School Street did not exist at the time this photo was taken."

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Kennebunkport Historical Society

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3

"… to Farmington soon afterwards and opened a studio specializing in landscape and portrait photography."

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Music in Maine - Rock and Roll, Punk, and Elvis

"The studio provided a space for John and his friends, including me, Joe Wainer, Bart Gross, Ozzie Gross, and Mike Guimond to play music together, and…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… interesting of the films created here was Fox Studio's 1917 feature Queen of the Sea, an oceanic adventure starring Annette Kellermann."

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Blue Hill, Maine - The Musical Culture of Blue Hill

"He then proceeded to open a recording studio and launched a new label, Neworld. The Bagaduce Chorale: In 1974 Mary Cheney Gould founded the…"

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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 1 of 5

"… has an upstairs, which has been converted into a studio for pictures, with lighting and the whole works."

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Music in Maine - Music Makers

"The Victor Recording Studio in Brooklyn, New York pressed a 78 recording of Dunham playing the song."

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Music in Maine - Bluegrass Music

"… the high-quality banjos he made in his Topsham studio starting in 1967 where he manufactured most parts of the instruments from the washers to the…"

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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"… of Bath uses the block, such as dance and art studios, retail shops, and Springer's Jewelry. Even today, there are clues to the past: The A.G."

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Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… rebuild were underway.” Today a new photography studio and art gallery neighbors a lakeside gazebo that welcomes people to downtown Lincoln."