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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

"McKenney. Marcus Ormsbee moved his studio from Boston to Portland in 1843 and practiced in the city through 1850."

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Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"… Society Collection depict pairs of women in novel studio poses. Two of the tintypes show the same pair of ladies playing chess."

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Early Maine Photography - War - Page 2 of 2

"… before they left or were photographed in camp studios. Large numbers of pictures of the common Maine soldier have survived, and the Maine…"

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Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 2 of 2

"… portraiture by using painted backgrounds in their studios. A tintype shows a formally posed young woman set against a classical railing and trees…"

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Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 1 of 2

"… aspiring young sculptor Paul Akers maintained a studio in Portland. Photographer George M. Howe’s daguerreotype of Aker’s 1849 bust of Charles…"

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Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 1 of 2

"What brought them together in a photographer’s studio – school, friendship, or family? Other group daguerreotypes in the Society’s collection are…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Oak Hotel

"Miss Oak also had a photography studio in the hotel. She had been a photographer since 1912 and wanted to expand her business."

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

"… to Farmington soon afterwards and opened a studio specializing in landscape and portrait photography."

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Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"It is not known if the studio was located on the first or second floor. Note that School Street did not exist at the time this photo was taken."

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Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… rebuild were underway.” Today a new photography studio and art gallery neighbors a lakeside gazebo that welcomes people to downtown Lincoln."