Maine Historical Society

The Maine Historical Society (MHS) will catalog, re-house, digitize, and provide comprehensive online access to daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and glass plate negatives in its collection. These images include approximately 1,000 of the earliest photographic images made in Maine from approximately 1840-1870, including city scenes, rural landscapes, family and occupational portraits, and post-mortem photographs. Digitization of these early photographs will help preserve the collections by decreasing the need to handle fragile originals and will provide a research tool that can be accessed free of charge on MHS's Maine Memory Network.