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Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 1 of 2

"… portrait busts and ideal works such as The Dead Pearl Diver and St. Elizabeth of Hungary. His promising career ended prematurely in his death from…"

Early Maine Photography - Art

"… Paul Delaroche declared, "From today, painting is dead." Yet the daguerreotype would not replace the artist’s hand, but instead become a tool to be…"

Early Maine Photography - Post-Mortem & Mourning

"… by today’s standards, these pictures of the dead were commonplace in mid-nineteenth century culture and were cherished as keepsakes by which to…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… babies come into the world, and they laid the dead to rest. Women's lives were hard and they often died young."

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