Person/Organization: Whitney, Emmie Bailey
Item 12872
Emmie Bailey Whitney at Katahdin, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1935 Media: Photographic print
Item 12877
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1931 Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
Exhibit
Capturing Arts and Artists in the 1930s
Emmie Bailey Whitney of the Lewiston Journal Saturday Magazine and her husband, noted amateur photographer G. Herbert Whitney, captured in words and photographs the richness of Maine's arts scene during the Great Depression.
