Category Archives: Linwood Dyer Collection

Faces from the Past – Hunnewell & Plummer Family Portraits (1860s–1880s)

Six 19th-century portraits from the album of Nellie Plummer Roberts preserve the likenesses of Lucy Hunnewell Libby, Marietta “Mettie” Hunnewell Small, and Seth L. Plummer of Scarborough, Maine. Studio imprints, fashion details, and known birth dates allow these tintypes and cartes de visite to be securely dated from the Civil War era through the mid-1880s. Continue reading

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Faces from the Past – Libby, Potter, & Small

Five photographs from the Linwood Dyer Collection illuminate members of the Small, Potter, and Libby families, spanning ambrotypes, tintypes, and early 20th-century portraits. Through inscriptions, photographic formats, and family research, these images reconnect individuals to names, dates, and places in New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, and beyond. Continue reading

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Faces & Places From the Past – Libby, Merrill, Young, and Portland Construction

Four historic photographs from the Linwood Dyer Collection reveal Scarborough residents, a 1920s vaudeville performer, and a Portland landmark in transition, carefully researched and dated by the Scarborough Historical Society. Continue reading

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Faces and Places of the Kinney Family, 1933–1939

This installment of the Linwood D. Dyer Collection highlights family photographs connected to Margaret Kinney of Portland, Maine, taken between 1933 and 1939. The images document relatives, residences, and familiar landmarks—including Portland Head Light, a Portland trolley, and the harbor vessel Mildred Goudy—preserved today by the Scarborough Historical Society. Continue reading

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Faces from the Past – Catlin, Hinkley, & Kinney

This installment from the Linwood Dyer Collection highlights early 20th-century photographs of the Kinney, Hinkley, and Catlin families. Drawn from an Eastman Negative Album, these images document a wedding, family portraits, and ancestral connections, offering descendants a rare visual link to their Portland, Maine heritage. Continue reading

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