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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Icons & Influencers

"Coupled with the Evening Express’ penchant for photographs of the “everyday person”, the paper featured celebrity outings, public events…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Sports

"… a prominent role in the Press Herald and Evening Express papers. The Portland Press Herald Glass Plate Collection contains many examples of sports…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aerial Photography

"While photography was not a new medium, it was not until after the mid- 1920s when newspapers began to widely feature photographs."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection

"While the practice of using pictures in newspapers was ubiquitous, Gannett utilized photography as news much more than his contemporaries."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation

"… aviators was always a big topic in the Evening Express and Press Herald newspapers. Guy Gannett and his father were avid aviators and followed…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Man on the Street"

"… Society/MaineToday Media The Portland Evening Express ran a regular article called “We Have With Us”, and “With Us Today”, which featured a man on…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 2 of 2

"… Historical Society/MaineToday Media Gannett Newspapers issued a special edition pictorial review of the disaster featuring images from their own…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Along the Waterfront

"… X The Portland Press Herald and the Evening Express ran a regular column on what was going on on Portland's busy working waterfront entitled…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Allies & Allegiance: Military comradery at the Centennial, 1920

"The Portland Evening Express documented the week’s Centennial events, highlighting a plethora of activities."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Wiscasset's Arctic Connection

"… from Maine Historical Society, Blethen Maine Newspapers Explorer, scientist, author and teacher Donald B."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 1 of 2

"… contemporary news coverage, the Portland Evening Express and Press Herald covered crime and disaster vehemently, and often promoted it on the front…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"

""Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans" Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans View Immigration and Americanization slideshow Text by…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - 1925 National Governors' Association Convention

"1925 National Governors' Association Convention View the National Governors' Convention Slideshow, 1925 On Monday June 29, 1925, over 20 of…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs

"… National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs Power of Potential View the Maine Women's Business Convention Slideshow…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - First balloon ascension, Bangor, 1857

"… so sudden and so grand that hardly a person could express even their amazement every one of all the thousands were as it were dumb for a moment…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"… in 1911, for the Lubec Herald reported on “a huge express package which contained a magnificent engraving of Lübeck, Germany, in the Sixteenth…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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