Maine Memory Network

South Portland High School students on The Dave Astor Show, Portland, 1962

Do you know these teenagers?

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1962-03-17 Location: Portland; South Portland Media: Film transparency

Dave Astor and guests on set of the final show, Portland, 1971

Do you know these women?

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1971-06-26 Location: Portland Media: Film transparency

Selections from the Collections

Maine Historical Society staff come across unique and unforgettable items in our collections every day. While it's difficult to choose favorites from a dynamic collection, this exhibit features memorable highlights as selected by members of the MHS staff.

Chansonetta Stanley Emmons: Staging the Past

Chansonetta Stanley Emmons (1858-1937) of Kingfield, Maine, experimented with the burgeoning artform of photography. Starting in 1897, Emmons documented the lives of people, many in rural and agricultural regions in Maine and around the world. Often described as recalling a bygone era, this exhibition features glass plate negatives and painted lantern slides from the collections of the Stanley Museum in Kingfield on deposit at Maine Historical Society, that present a time of rapid change, from 1897 to 1926.

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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