Keywords: Eastern Illustrating Company
Item 25837
Eastern Illustrating Co. staff, Belfast, 1916
Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: 1916 Location: Belfast Media: Glass Negative
Item 25834
Eastern Illustrating Co. vehicle, E. Parsonsfield, ca. 1915
Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1915 Location: Parsonsfield Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
Lincoln County through the Eastern Eye
The Penobscot Marine Museum’s photography collections include nearly 50,000 glass plate negatives of images for "real photo" postcards produced by the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast. This exhibit features postcards from Lincoln County.
Exhibit
Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye
The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.
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Historic Hallowell - Eastern Illustrating Company
"… entrepreneur, started a postcard company, the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company, in the mid-coast town of Belfast, Maine."
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Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 4 of 4
"Print. Illustrated Atlas of the Civil War. Alexandria, Va: Time-Life Books, 1996. Print. Maine at Gettysburg, Report of Maine Commissioners."