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Category Archives: Linwood Dyer Collection
Faces from the Past – Burnham, Libby, Plummer, Roberts, & Stone
Six photographs from the Linwood Dyer Collection provide a glimpse into Scarborough-area families, including Alvin and Nellie (Plummer) Roberts, Daniel and Lydia Plummer, and Seth and Susan (Stone) Plummer. Studio analysis, clothing styles, and documentary research help establish probable dates and identities, further reconnecting these images with their family histories. Continue reading
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Tagged Susan Stone Plummer, Lydia Libby Plummer, Alvin C Roberts, Charles Burnham, Linwood Dyer Collection, Cape Elizabeth genealogy, Scarborough Maine history, Maine tintypes, Portland Maine Photographers, E. S. Wormell, Seth L Plummer, Nellie Plummer Roberts, carte de visite, Daniel W Plummer
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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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Tagged Chas W Hearn photographer, Seth L Plummer, 19th century family portraits, Nellie Plummer Roberts, Mettie Hunnewell, Plummer family, Hunnewell family, Cumberland County Maine, Civil War era photography, tintype portrait, Scarborough Maine history, carte de visite, Lucy Hunnewell Libby, J H Lamson photographer, Marietta Hunnewell Small
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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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Tagged Faces from the Past, tintype, Portland Maine, Black Point Cemetery, Scarborough Maine, Libby family, Small family, Potter family, Linwood Dyer Collection, Identified Photographs, 19th century photography, historical photographs, ambrotype
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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
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
Posted in Linwood Dyer Collection, Photo Identification, Maine History
Tagged Portland Head Light, Portland Maine, Ship Channel Road, Scarborough Historical Society, Philip Edward Hinkley, South Portland Maine, Linwood Dyer Collection, Maine maritime history, historic trolleys, Eastman Negative Album, Margaret Kinney, Louise Kinney, Mildred Goudy, 1930s Maine
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