Keywords: Early Photographs
Item 110370
Ambrotype of a young woman by Dr. Stuart, Belfast, ca. 1859
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1859 Location: Belfast Media: ambrotype
Item 11703
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1912 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 85120
Ray property, Natick Street, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Clyde Ray Use: Summer Dwelling
Item 65231
77 Newbury Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Raffaele Frascone Use: Dwelling - Single family
Exhibit
Eternal Images: Photographing Childhood
From the earliest days of photography doting parents from across Maine sought to capture images of their young children. The studio photographs often reflect the families' images of themselves and their status or desired status.
Exhibit
Maine Streets: The Postcard View
Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.
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Early Maine Photography - Portland Photographers
"Five Portland photographers of this period are represented in the Maine Historical Society Collection: Marcus Ormsbee, George M."
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"An ambrotype copy of an early nineteenth century silhouette of an unidentified young woman was made by T.R. Burnham of Bangor in the 1850s."
Story
The Year We Had Two Thanksgiving Days
by John Brooks Howard
The story is about a 1939 trip to Grand Lake Stream and Thanksgiving with Geo W MacArthur and family
Story
Story of the "little nun"
by Felicia Garant
My grandmother made a nun's outfit for me
