Maine Memory Network

Early Maine Photography - Studio Portraits

"Studio Portraits Studio Portrait Slideshow Click on image for full slideshow Beginning the 1840s, photographers sought to make the connection…"

Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 1 of 2

"While Leland’s artist remains unknown, the Day portrait was the work of Portland portrait painter Charles O. Cole."

Early Maine Photography - Art

"This uncropped photograph (at right) reveals a portrait placed before the camera on a cane seated chair."

Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"… less formal and more creative in composing studio portraits. In an ambrotype, little Eleanor Bradley Peters proudly wears her large fur lined…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 1 of 3

"… Washington in 1814, she rescued the full-length portrait of George Washington from the East Room. In 1817 the Madisons returned to Montpelier…"

Early Maine Photography - Portland Photographers

"… A Portland native, Howe made many daguerreotype portraits in the 1850s, including eleven in the Collection."

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 1 of 2

"… seems as much a collection of individual portraits as it does a group picture. The inscription on the reverse that “This picture is to be given to…"

Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 2 of 2

"… seated between a trompe l’oeil doorway and window. The window drapery is rendered in a manner reminiscent of those found in primitive portraits."

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Early Maine Photography - Occupational Photography

"Reflecting Maine’s seagoing heritage are four portrait photographs of captains whose stern faces reflect the responsibilities of commanding a ship at…"

Early Maine Photography - Family Groups

"This three generation portrait places a grandmother at the center flanked by a mother and father. Two boys stand behind them and a third sits in…"

Early Maine Photography - Post-Mortem & Mourning

"Her absence is conspicuous in this touching portrait of a young family facing the future without a wife and mother."

Early Maine Photography - Occupational

"Maine occupational portraits are well represented in the Vickery-Shettleworth Collection by daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes."

Early Maine Photography - War - Page 2 of 2

"Friends at home, in return, send their portraits to the soldiers…Most of these are taken on the (tintype) plate for the reason that it is light…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"Thus, his image is known only through portraits painted during his lifetime, including this one that has survived through a daguerreotype copy."

Early Maine Photography - The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection

"Soon his criteria expanded to include portrait photographs of Maine people by local photographers. In junior high school, Earle Shettleworth read…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 2

"Landscape Photography Landscape Photography Slideshow Click on image for full slideshow Dotting the landscape of mid-nineteenth century Maine…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 2

"Landscape Photography Connor and Hathorn Building, Pittsfield, ca. 1860Maine Historical Society Early outdoor photographs are…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 2 of 3

"Famous People Hannibal Hamlin, ca. 1860Maine Historical Society Hannibal Hamlin This ambrotype of Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1891) probably dates…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"Landscape Photography Mussey's Row, Middle Street, Portland, ca. 1856Maine Historical Society Taken in 1845 or 1846, this view of buildings…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

"Landscape Photography Bemis Family, South Paris, ca. 1870Maine Historical Society Communities beyond the Portland area are also represented…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"Landscape Photography Casco Engine Co. No. 1 firemen's muster and parade, Portland, 1846Maine Historical Society The Maine Historical Society…"

Early Maine Photography - MHS Early Maine Photography Collections

"MHS Early Maine Photography Collections Maine Historical Society (MHS) started collecting photographs during the 19th century, as the medium grew in…"

Early Maine Photography - War

"War Simon Dearborn, Monmouth, ca. 1850Maine Historical Society In the Vickery-Shettleworth Collection, the images of two aged Revolutionary…"