Keywords: Framed photograph
Item 104432
Drawing of a woman on a tintype, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1840 Media: Tintype
Item 102873
S.S. "Orhom" framed in record time, South Portland, 1918
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1918-07-16 Location: South Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 99036
Assessor's Record, 1929-2013 Forest Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Riverton Realty Company Use: Amusement
Item 38959
588 Congress Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Heirs of Mary L. Goodridge Use: Store & Picture Framing Studio
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.
Site Page
Early Maine Photography - Occupational
"Another young man sat for a Bowdoinham photographer in his fraternal garb of sash, belt, hat, and sword."
Site Page
Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3
"Middle Street’s small frame and brick houses and buildings, the domed granite Merchants Exchange, and the Second Parish Church have long vanished…"
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
