Maine Memory Network

Early Maine Photography - Portland Photographers

"Five Portland photographers of this period are represented in the Maine Historical Society Collection: Marcus Ormsbee, George M."

Stanley Museum

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Early Maine Photography - Family Groups

"Large families were common in the mid-nineteenth century, as reflected by an ambrotype of a father, a mother, and their three sons and three…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

""Fly Rod" CrosbyMaine State Museum If one family member died of consumption, usually more family members caught it."

Early Maine Photography - MHS Early Maine Photography Collections

"… Collection; MHS Compiled Collections; and photographs from within family or archival collections."

Early Maine Photography - Art

"Individuals and families used the photographic medium to copy a silhouette or a portrait of a relative, often to share with family members and…"

Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 1 of 2

"… Historical Society Collection contains several photographs that are copies of earlier portraits. A circa 1830-50 folk art painting of a woman…"

Early Maine Photography - Post-Mortem & Mourning

"If no painted or photographic image had been made of a family member, the post-mortem daguerreotype was an inexpensive and readily available means to…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"… of the 1840s and 50s rank among the earliest photographs of the city. Firemen’s musters and parades were important public events in nineteenth…"

Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"1854Maine Historical Society While most early photographers created formal images of their sitters, some portrayed their subjects with a touch of…"

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 1 of 2

"A half plate daguerreotype by the Portland photographer Samuel L. Carleton shows twenty-nine club members seated or standing in rows."

Early Maine Photography - The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection

"Inevitably, these accumulations contained family photographs, often unidentified, that included daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes from the…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

"A South Paris tintype of about 1860 shows eleven members of the Bemis family standing adjacent to the store of merchant Hiram Hubbard."

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"By the time the Philadelphia photographer Frederick Langenheim took this picture in 1856, Longfellow had established an international reputation for…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Savage Family of Mount Desert

"… private collections of original correspondence, photographs, maps, written and oral histories, business records, and ephemera to develop our…"

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

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

"One of the most photographed events at the convention was a lobster bake and buffet held at the hotel."

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

"The Gannett family were also well known aviation enthusiasts. Air travel was often the preferred method of travel for Guy; and his father William…"

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 2 of 2

"Members of one of the city’s most prominent families, the five Deering sisters are fashionably dressed and artistically posed around their mother…"

Early Maine Photography - War

"At the age of eighteen, James Davis left his family farm in Plymouth to join Company I of the Ninth Maine Regiment."

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 1 of 3

"… acquired this daguerreotype from the Cutts family. Tintype portrait of Abraham Lincoln, ca."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3

"Starbird released a series of photographs called “The Woods of Maine,” which he worked on for 20 years, between 1883 and 1903."

Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 1 of 2

"… as well as dramatically enhancing access by photographing the garments and preparation of this online portal conveying an overview of the…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 2 of 3

"… Isaiah Welch, the group attending poses for a photograph. Strong Historical Society After the Civil War, Union veterans organized and chartered…"