Antique photos, postcards on view at Penobscot Marine Museum
Vintage postcard of Searsport from the collection of the Penobscot Marine Museum.
Vintage postcard of Searsport from the collection of the Penobscot Marine Museum.
SEARSPORT — Historic images from Penobscot Marine Museum's collection of more than 140,000 photographs will be available at the Maine 2015 Antique Paper Show Saturday, June 27, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the First Congregational Church Vestry, 8 Church St. This show complements the museum's photography exhibit Exploring the Magic of Photography: Painting with Light,"which includes a gigantic walk-in camera obscura.
Penobscot Marine Museum's collection of historic photographs began with a collection of negatives from a turn-of-the-19th-century postcard company, Eastern Illustrated & Publishing Company of Belfast. Postcards, hugely popular in the late 1800's and early 1900's, and their glass plate negatives still have a significant presence in the museum's collection.
The Maine 2015 Antique Paper Show: Postcards and Paper Collectibles includes thousands of vintage postcards, old maps, historic photographs, sheet music and paper ephemera. Free appraisals for paper collectibles will be available from 1 to 3 p.m.
Admission is $2, which includes $2 off of a Penobscot Marine Museum admission ticket. For more information, call Kevin Johnson at 548-2529, ext. 210.
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