Maine Memory Network

Memorial Day, Presque Isle, 1888

Contributed by: Turner Memorial Library through Presque Isle Historical Society Date: 1888-05-30 Location: Presque Isle Media: Photographic print

Silhouette of an unidentified woman, ca. 1855

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1855 Location: Bangor Media: Ambrotype

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.

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.

Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 1 of 2

"At the age of twenty-one in 1845 he rented a room in Portland’s City Hall in order to make crayon portraits of local residents."

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 1 of 3

"… portrait of George Washington from the East Room. In 1817 the Madisons returned to Montpelier, their Virginia country estate, where James Madison…"

Story of the "little nun"
by Felicia Garant

My grandmother made a nun's outfit for me