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Keywords: Real photo postcards

Historical Items

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Item 105872

Main Street, South Bristol, 1911

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: 1911 Location: South Bristol Media: Glass Plate Negative

Item 6826

Fraser Co. paper mill, Madawaska, ca. 1925

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1925 Location: Madawaska Media: Postcard

Item 25812

Street view, Fort Kent, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1915 Location: Fort Kent Media: Photograph on postcard

Online Exhibits

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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.

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

Summer Folk: The Postcard View

Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."

Site Pages

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Site Page

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"Postcard of the trotting park in Blue Hill ca. 1910Blue Hill Public Library Once you step through the ticket booth, in front of you is the heart and…"

Site Page

Life on a Tidal River - Bass Park: A History of Fillies, Fame, and Fun

"Print. Postcard of 1897 Auditorium X Postcard of 1897 Auditorium With Horsedrawn Carriages X Photo of Handbill for 1906 Music Festival…"

Site Page

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

My Maine Stories

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Story

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.