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Description
A volunteer fireman from Harpswell posed in front of a seascape backdrop for this studio portrait. Maine State Historian Earle Shettleworth has noted that membership in local fire companies was a particular matter of pride in Maine during this era, and it was common for men to take their picture in uniform. The photo print on the great majority of tintypes was laterally reversed, so subjects appear as if in a mirror.
About This Item
- Title: Volunteer fireman, Harpswell, ca. 1865
- Creation Date: circa 1865
- Subject Date: circa 1865
- Location: Harpswell, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Tintype
- Dimensions: 8.9 cm x 5.7 cm
- Local Code: 2014.237.008
- Collection: Vickery-Shettleworth collection of early Maine photography
- Object Type: Image
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