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Maine On Glass: The Early Twentieth Century in Glass Plate Photography

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Nineteenth-century Maine―famed for its lumbering, shipbuilding, and seafaring―has attracted copious attention from historians, but early twentieth-century Maine has not. Maine on Glass redresses this imbalance with 190 postcard photos and three of Maine’s foremost historians.

 

MWPA Maine Literary Award Finalist John N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction

Postcards were the Instagrams of the early twentieth century. On at some point in September 1906, 200,000 postcards were mailed from Coney Island. In 1913 some 968,000,000 postcards were sent within the U.S., more than seven per person. The vast majority of postcards made on the turn of the twentieth century were mass-produced lithograph or letterpress half-tones, however the Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company produced “real photo postcards” within the type of silver gelatin prints made by exposing the negative onto photo paper card stock and developing it in a traditional wet darkroom. Eastern was once the largest U.S. manufacturer of what it known as “genuine” photo postcards.  

The images on this book were selected from 22,000 glass plate negatives created by the Eastern company between 1909 and World War II. As an archive of early twentieth-century Maine architectural photography, the Eastern collection (now housed on the Penobscot Marine Museum) has no equal, and it gives us many unexpected glimpses of Maine life. Maine residents, expatriates, and visitors will enjoy hours of pleasure on this journey through Maine’s countryside, villages, and towns, guided by three historians who can bring a vista to life with a couple of well-chosen comments. 190 duotone photos

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