Book Talk: Maine on Glass

Join the authors of MAINE ON GLASS The Early Twentieth Century in Glass Plate Photography,
W. H. Bunting, Kevin Johnson, and Earle G. Shettleworth. Jr. for an illustrated talk about this photographic journey into the twentieth century.

Nineteenth-century Maine—famed for its lumbering, shipbuilding,and seafaring—has attracted copious attention from historians, but early twentieth-century Maine has not. Maine on Glass corrects that oversight, taking us from top to bottom of a big state in bustling times. Hitting the back roads in antique automobiles,slipping in and out of the decades between 1909 and the early 1950s, we visit boomtowns and migrant labor camps, people at work and play, farms and factories, lobster smacks and loggers,hotels and boarding houses, resorts and hunting lodges, board-and batten one-roomers and opulent homes, quarries and river ferries, summer camps and village schools, airplanes and schooners, brass bands and ship launchings. There was a lot going on in Maine in the early twentieth century.