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Historical Items

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Item 155573

Portland Camera Club members pose with cameras, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Maine Media: Lantern slide

Item 155569

The making of a picture, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Maine Media: Lantern slide

Item 155575

On the Desert of Maine the camel found grass, Freeport, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Freeport Media: Lantern slide, hand-colored

Tax Records

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Item 57523

57 Hanover Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Julius Cameras Use: Apartments

Online Exhibits

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Notorious: Maine Crime in the Public Eye, 1690–1940 - A Maine Pioneer

"Lighter cameras and flashbulbs developed in the 1920s forward fueled the golden age of photojournalism."

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Photojournalism & the 1936 Flood

Photojournalism & the 1936 Flood examines the monumental destruction caused by the historic flood of 1936 through the comprehensive and innovative photojournalism done by the Guy Gannett Publishing Company in the weeks surrounding the flood.

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Music in Maine - Music and Television

"… at acrobatic dance moves, like jumping into the camera frame. In this photograph, she performed to Mississippi Mud by the Platters, wearing rolled…"

Site Pages

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 1 of 6

"Whether it be through the lens of his camera while walking on the village trails, artistically developing landscape portraits in the dark room at his…"

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Blue Hill, Maine - A New Look at an Old Painting

"Fisher used the latest technology - the camera obscura - to create an image that is photographic in its accuracy."

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Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 2 of 2

"Judkins stares pensively into the camera, setting a serious tone reflected in the expressions of her girls."

My Maine Stories

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Florence Ahlquist Link's WWII service in the WAVES
by Earlene Ahlquist Chadbourne

Florence Ahlquist, age 20, was trained to repair the new aeronautical cameras by the US Navy in WWII

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The Year We Had Two Thanksgiving Days
by John Brooks Howard

The story is about a 1939 trip to Grand Lake Stream and Thanksgiving with Geo W MacArthur and family

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Rest Stop in Scarborough, Maine
by Lee Evans

This is about our first visit to Maine in 1998. My wife and I moved here from Maryland in 2007.