Photography -- Maine

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Photo albums of scenes of Maine, mostly Central and Eastern Maine, the coast and the mountains.

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Photos of UMaine campus activities and events.

Abstract

NA1132 John B. Skinner, interviewed by Arthur Ruston, November 17, 1977-November 22, 1977, for AY 125, fall 1977, Veazie, Maine. Skinner talks about Veazie history, older houses, notable people, sections of town; family; genealogy; life as a photographer. Text: 17 pp., brief catalog. Recording: mfc_na1132_t1195_01. (T 1195). Time: 2 hours.

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Collection of postcards and calendars illustrated with photos taken by Paul Knaut. Included in the collection is the unpublished manuscripts for a book on light and color and exhibition materials.

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Photo prints depicting woods work and life in the lumber woods (ca. 1890-1930).

Content Description

The collection consists of five black & white photographs, primarily from Maine. One photograph is a view of the Penobscot River from 1928; one photograph is a Christmas postcard, of a house, from Herbert R. Jellison; one photograph is a cropped view of the Maine Central Railroad Station, Thomaston, Maine; one photograph is of a catch of trout caught at Winstanley Lake, Alaska, 1937; one photograph is the grave marker for Rose Bolduc, written in French, who died by accident in 1931.

Content Description

Collection consists of 136, 8” x 10”, photoprints of Mainers engaged in their occupations.

Content Description The collection consists of six postcards with black & white photographs on the front. The scenes are primarily of lakes and rivers, and one of a cabin. They most likely from the Passadumkeag, Maine, area. There are several people canoeing in one photograph, on what is probably the Passadumkeag Stream, which is referenced on the margin of another photo. The postcards were mostly mailed from Orono, Maine, to Miss Minnie G. Reed of Springfield, Maine, in October 1905 by Fannie Hardy...