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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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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."

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Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"… to be less formal and more creative in composing studio portraits. In an ambrotype, little Eleanor Bradley Peters proudly wears her large fur lined…"

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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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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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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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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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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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