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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…"

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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 2 of 3

"… just prior to the availability of the ambrotype process, which indicates that this picture is probably copied from an earlier daguerreotype."

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

"… a venue for many people to learn about his scientific voyages and feel a part of the preparations and process of the trips. View this Exhibit"

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Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"A long-time seasonal resident of Lubec, Frank Van Riper, made a number of photographs of people and their work at McCurdy’s the last year of…"

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Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"In Jacob B. Pike’s photograph the viewer looks into the center of the “stand” with the Pickling Shed in the distance at the end of the wharf."

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Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 4 of 4

"… several items important for the sixth step of the process in an exhibit at McCurdy’s. All were important in a world where wooden boxes were used…"

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Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4

"… investigator, Ansley Hall, tell much about the process, even then, already practiced in Lubec for possibly one hundred years."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Maps

"… history and see the power of maps in the learning process. UMF Arboretum Trail -- First put together by a biology class at University of Maine…"

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Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"Lewis Hine, a photographer investigating the use of child labor in the canneries in 1911, was convinced unemployment and damage to family life…"

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Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"Was everyone working in fishing or fish processing? S: Yes, in the factories, and at the can plant … and then, when they couldn’t do that, that’s why…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"… led to companion industries, such as the processing of the fish catch, mills to process timber and grains, and boat building."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Mildred Thomas and Harold Sawyer, ca. 1910

"Harold was the son of Charles Sawyer who had a studio in Farmington from 1904-1920. His handpainted photographs were very popular."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lydia Abbott Titcomb and Pine Tree Cottage, Farmington, ca. 1875

"The woman in the photograph is Lydia Abbott Titcomb. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington High School Football Team, 1911

"… The Farmington High School football team group photograph of 1911 includes Thaddeus Roderick, Captain."

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Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 2 of 3

"1961 Lubec Historical Society Two additional photographs came to light after this exhibit was finished which dramatically show the extreme variation…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Hotel Willows, Farmington, ca. 1910

"… Farmington Public Library Description A photographic image on heavy paper was used as early advertising or as a postcard."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lillian Nordica, Farmington, ca. 1911

"… Description Lillian Nordic signed her photograph, "To the library, Lillian Nordica." The date is uncertain, but it is thought she…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Julia Harris May poetry collection, 1903

"Also includes engravings and photographs of Strong and Farmington. It was published by Knowlton & McLeary Co., Printers of Farmington in 1903."

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - About Us

"In 2008, a fire at the island's library destroyed photographs, documents, artwork, artifacts, and other priceless pieces of island history."

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Ambajejus Boom House

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

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Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"Notice the mud flats on the shore in the photograph on the left, taken on September 1, 1961. On the right, a photograph of September 7, 1961 shows…"

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Lubec, Maine - The Blizzard of '34 - Page 1 of 2

"… and eagerly document their suffering with photographs. The January 11th Lubec Herald also reported that by Tuesday the 16th North Lubec Road was…"

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Historic Hallowell - Eastern Illustrating Company

"Hallowell's Museum In The Streets project purchased all the photographs of our city in the collection and donated them to the Hubbard Free Library…"

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Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"… great deal of research and made numerous trips to photograph features of the area.” With his oft-present measuring wheel Avery explored the route."