Category Archives: Vintage Photos

LDC Stills, Part 1: Five 1930s Paramount Stars

Posted on June 22, 2026 by Don Taylor

A look at five original 1930s Paramount Pictures movie stills from the Linwood Dyer Collection, featuring glamour portraits of Mary Carlisle, Marsha Hunt, Gail Patrick, Shirley Ross, and Gladys Swarthout — with brief biographical notes on each actress.Linw Continue reading →

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Photos from the Past – New England Scenes & a Scarborough Graduate.

Posted on December 21, 2025 by Don Taylor

A look at four historic photographs from the Scarborough Historical Society’s Photo Collection—three depicting 19th-century locations in Maine and Massachusetts, and one a Scarborough High School graduate from the Class of 1961. Together, these images illustrate the breadth of the Society’s photographic holdings and the stories they continue to tell. Continue reading →

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Vintage Photos – Five unidentified images from Maine, Massachusetts, and England

Posted on November 23, 2025 by Don Taylor

This first installment of “Vintage Photos” features five intriguing historic images: a Cornish store staff, a Dover-Jackman teamster, a Boston grocery interior, an English public house, and a Lewiston studio portrait. Each offers clues to everyday life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries while inviting further identification. Continue reading →

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