Edwin R. Starbird Photographs
Scope and Contents
Includes one photograph from Starbird's Rangeley Lake Views series, one from his Views of Tim Pond and the Seven Ponds series, seven from the Woods of Maine series, and four from the area around Katahdin Iron Works.
Dates
- 1880s
Creator
Restrictions on Access
Kept at Fogler Library's offsite storage facility. One week's notice required for retrieval.
Use Restrictions
Information on literary rights available in the Library.
Biographical Note
Starbird was born in 1853 in Freeman, Maine. He began his working life as a teacher but in the early 1880's began studying photography with Francis E. Stanley in Lewiston, Maine. He then returned to Farmington and opened a studio for both portrait and landscape photography. Around 1883 he began a series of photographs called the Woods of Maine series which came to include nearly 600 views of the Rangeley area, Moosehead Lake, the West Branch of the Penobscot River, and other wilderness places. In 1892 he left Farmington and opened a business in Brunswick, Maine, where he continued to work until 1911. After closing this studio, he moved to Apopka, Florida, where he died on July 23, 1921.
Extent
13 photographs (black-and-white ; 13 x 21 cm - 23 x 29 cm)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Includes one photograph from Starbird's Rangeley Lake Views series, one from his Views of Tim Pond and the Seven Ponds series, seven from the Woods of Maine series, and four from the area around Katahdin Iron Works.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Dwight B. Demeritt, Jr., Orono, Me., October 2006.
- Katahdin Iron Works (Me.) -- Photographs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Little Munsungan Lake (Me.) -- Photographs Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Millimagassett Lake (Me.) -- Photographs Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Nature photography -- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Outdoor life -- Maine -- Photographs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Photograph collections -- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Photographers -- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Photographs Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Photographs -- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Rangeley Lakes Region (Me. and N.H.) -- Photographs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Guide to the Edwin R. Starbird Photographs
- Status
- Box And Folder List Available
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for uncoded script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections Repository
5729 Raymond H. Fogler Library
University of Maine
Orono ME 04469-5729 United States
207-581-1686
