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Early Maine Photography - Human Interest
"Human Interest Two women with whiskey glasses, ca. 1854Maine Historical Society While most early photographers created formal images of their…"
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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…"
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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3
"Famous People Governor Enoch Lincoln Enoch Lincoln, Paris, 1827Maine Historical Society Governor Enoch Lincoln died in 1829, a decade before…"
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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 1 of 3
"Famous People Dolley Madison, ca. 1840Maine Historical Society Dolly Madison Remembered as one of America’s great first ladies, Dolly Madison…"
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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…"
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Early Maine Photography - Portland Photographers
"Portland Photographers Augustus Fox, ca. 1855Maine Historical Society As Maine’s largest city, Portland became a center for photographers…"
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"Art Silhouette of an unidentified woman, ca. 1855Maine Historical Society When the French artist Louis Daguerre announced his invention of…"
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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…"
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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…"
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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…"
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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…"
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Early Maine Photography - Family Groups
"Family Groups Unidentified family, ca. 1857Maine Historical Society The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection contains several examples of…"
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Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 2 of 2
"Art Joseph Leland of Saco, ca. 1850Maine Historical Society Nineteenth century Portland supported an active artistic community."
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Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 1 of 2
"Art Ezekiel Day, Portland, ca. 1850Maine Historical Society The Maine Historical Society Collection contains several photographs that are…"
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Early Maine Photography - Post-Mortem & Mourning
"Post-Mortem & Mourning Post Mortem & Mourning Slideshow Click on image to view slideshow In pre-Civil war Maine, death was a frequent…"
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Early Maine Photography - War - Page 2 of 2
"War As the Civil War began in 1861, the ambrotype was joined by the tintype as a form of photography "popular with soldiers and camp photographers…"
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Early Maine Photography - The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection
"The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. and James B. Vickery, III X The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection of Early Maine…"
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Early Maine Photography - Early Maine Photography at Maine Historical Society
"Early Maine Photography at Maine Historical Society Ellen, William Pitt Preble, and Stephen Longfellow, Portland, ca."
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Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 2 of 2
"Groups Anna Margaret Holwell Deering and daughters, Portland, ca. 1855Maine Historical Society Revealing contrasts are found as well in the…"
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Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 1 of 2
"Groups Log Cabin and Hard Cider Club, Portland, ca. 1850Maine Historical Society The Maine Historical Society Collection contains several…"
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Maine's Road to Statehood - Overview: Road to Statehood
"After the American Revolution achieved independence for the United States, the District still had no autonomous legislature or executive, but instead…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1920-1930 - Page 2 of 3
"The new leg-exposing skirt length was a true revolution. Historically women's legs were always covered, and out of the common gaze."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777
"Knox, commander of the American artillery in the Revolution, Secretary of War from 1785 to 1794 and close friend of George Washington, left his…"
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