Maine Memory Network

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…"

Early Maine Photography - Art

"The unframed portrait shows a man in formal clothing writing with a quill pen. The painting style is reminiscent of the Readfield artist Jonathan…"

Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 2 of 2

"… seated between a trompe l’oeil doorway and window. The window drapery is rendered in a manner reminiscent of those found in primitive portraits."

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 1 of 2

"… seems as much a collection of individual portraits as it does a group picture. The inscription on the reverse that “This picture is to be given to…"

Early Maine Photography - Family Groups

"This three generation portrait places a grandmother at the center flanked by a mother and father. Two boys stand behind them and a third sits in…"

Early Maine Photography - War - Page 2 of 2

"Friends at home, in return, send their portraits to the soldiers…Most of these are taken on the (tintype) plate for the reason that it is light…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

"This rare glass stereo view shows Abner Lowell seated atop Mount Washington at the center of a group of visitors to the summit."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John and Clara Martin wedding hack, Bangor, 1850

"… the glass lamps on the side of the drivers seat were cut the windows were one pane of clear thick German glass and also the window to the door the…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Millerite camp meeting, Orrington, 1844

"… slope of a hill and that there was space to seat "ten thousand" people. He later said there were "ten hundred" people singing hymns."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… Town Reports) Nora Rackliff Graduation portrait, Farmington, 1922Farmington Historical Society Nora Rackliff Typing Certificate…"