Maine Memory Network

Emmie Bailey Whitney at Katahdin, ca. 1930

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

Emmie Bailey Whitney, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Media: Ink on paper

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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.

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.