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Keywords: G. Herbert Whitney

Historical Items

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Item 1229

Whitney photo album, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Media: Photographic print

Item 12866

Emmie and Herbert Whitney, 1937

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1937-12-10 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print

Item 12872

Emmie Bailey Whitney at Katahdin, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1935 Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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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.

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Umbazooksus & Beyond

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.

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Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine

As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.