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Unidentified Faces – Dyer, Libby, and Six Unlabeled Women

Linwood Dyer Collection, Part 097By Don Taylor IntroductionThe Scarborough Historical Society maintains several important photographic collections documenting people, places, and events. In this installment of Faces from the Past, I examine eight more photographs from the Linwood Dyer Collection. Sadly, … Continue reading

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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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