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

Paperback | English

By (author): Earle G. Shettleworth Jr Kevin Johnson W H. Bunting

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

The images in 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 at 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 in this journey through Maine''s countryside, villages, and towns, guided by three historians who can bring a vista to life with a few well-chosen comments. See more
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Weight: 870g
  • Dimensions: 231 x 257mm
  • Publication Date: 31 May 2019
  • Publisher: Tilbury HouseU.S.
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780884483786

About Earle G. Shettleworth JrKevin JohnsonW H. Bunting

W. H. BILL Bunting is the author of a number of critically acclaimed works of history including Portrait of a Port: Boston 1852-1914; Steamers Schooners Cutters and Sloops: The Marine Photographs of N. L. Stebbins; A Day''s Work: A Sampler of Historic Maine Photographs 1860-1920 (in two volumes); The Camera''s Coast: Historic Images of Sea and Shore in New England; Live Yankees; and Maine on Glass: The Early Twentieth Century in Glass Plate Photography. With Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. he wrote An Eye for the Coast: The Monhegan and Maritime Photographs of Eric Hudson and Maine on Glass: The Early Twentieth Century in Glass Plate Photography. Bill Bunting shipped as galley boy aboard the brigantine Yankee at age 13 and later completed a 25000-mile world voyage as first mate of a 132-foot barkentine. Kevin Johnson is the photo archivist for the Penobscot Marine Museum. Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. was appointed to the first board of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission in 1971 and has served as director of the commission since 1976 and as Maine State Historian since 2004.

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