c1925-1929 Christmas Card of Maine Governor Ralph Owen Brewster, featuring the 1839 W. H. Bartlett engraving of "Eastport and Passamaquoddy"

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Holiday greetings, circa 1925-1929, from Maine Governor Ralph Owen Brewster (1888-1961) and wife (Dorothy (Foss) Brewster (1889-1971), featuring the 1839 W. H. Bartlett engraving of Eastport and Passamaquoddy Bay - From Lubec.

The Brewsters lived at 37 Zions Hill in Dexter, Maine.

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1893 Booklet "Souvenir of Quoddy"; scenes around Passamaquoddy Bay in Maine and New Brunswick

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"Souvenir of Quoddy", a booklet of scenes from around Passamaquoddy Bay in Maine and New Brunswick, published in 1893 by Charles E. Brown at the Loring Studio in Eastport, Maine. The booklet was printed in Boston, Massachusetts, by John Andrew & Son.

The Loring studio was founded by Davis Franklin Loring (1819-1891), father-in-law of Charles E. Brown.

The photographs depict scenes from:

• Eastport, Maine
• Lubec, Maine
• Robbinston, Maine
• Pembroke, Maine
• Perry, Maine
• St. George, New Brunswick
• Islands in Passamaquoddy Bay
• Eastport, Maine, on Moose Island
• Cherry Island, New Brunswick
• Campobello Island, New Brunswick
• Allan's Island (now Treat Island), Maine
• Grand Manan, New Brunswick   

Images of all of the pages appear at the end of this post.

Scenes include:

• a page with two photographs of the Eastport, Maine, waterfront, taken from the Bay
• a page with three photographs Eastport, Maine: the Toll Bridge, Goudy's Point and Carrying Place
• a page with four photographs of Eastport, Maine: Frontier National Bank, the Savings Bank; Boynton High School and the Custom House
• a page with ten photographs, entitled "Eastport of Former Days"
• a page with three photographs: of fishing boats; Estes Head in Eastport, Maine; Cherry Island, New Brunswick
• a page with a photograph of Pulpit Rock in Robbinston, Maine
• a page with a photograph of "Old Friar" on Campobello Island, New Brunswick
• a page with 4 photographs of Campobello Island, New Brunswick: Head Harbor; Herring Cove; Lake Glensevern; Meadow Brook
• a page with 5 photographs of Campobello Island, New Brunswick, including Friar's Bay, Harbor DeLute, Echo Lake
• a page with two photographs of the Lubec, Maine, waterfront, taken from the Bay or from Campobello Island, New Brunswick
• a page with 3 photographs of Lubec, Maine: the Landing; Looking South; Hotel Ne-Mat-Ta-No
• a page with a photograph of Sail Rock, just off West Quoddy in Lubec, Maine; easternmost point in the lower 48
• a page with a photograph of West Quoddy Light in Lubec, Maine; from the rocky shore with the lighthouse in the distance
• a page with a photograph taken on Allan's Island looking south toward Lubec, Maine, and Grand Manan, New Brunswick - now Treat Island in Eastport, Main. The photographs shows numerous buildings no longer there
• a page with two photographs, of Pembroke, Maine, and of Perry, Maine
• a page with a photograph of the Indian Village at Pleasant Point in Perry, Maine
• a page with a photograph of Dark Harbor, Grand Manan, New Brunswick
• a page with a photograph of Southern Head Light, Grand Manan, New Brunswick
• a page with three photographs of St. George, New Brunswick: the Landing, the Village and the Falls
• a page with five photographs of Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick: Swallow Tail Light; Southern Head; Flagg's Cove; Dark Harbor Bar; Southern Cross

 

Vintage Photograph Album from the Calais, Maine Area

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Vintage photograph album with text on the cover: Photographs, Souvenir of Calais, Maine

The album contains 23 photographs of people, places, gardens and an antique automobile, then presumably a contemporary one, which might help date the album.

Sadly, the photographs are glued to the pages, so it's unknown if any identifications are includes on the reverse.

The album presumably belonged to the couple shown in two of the photographs below, as one or both of them appear in several of the other photographs.  If you recognize this couple, please leave a comment so that this blog post can be amended.

Two photographs, below, that show scenes a reader might recognize:

• top left photo of the near page below appears to be a walking trail along the water
• right photo in the bottom page shows a woman with a house in the background, perhaps downstream past the mouth of the St. Croix River into Passamaquoddy Bay.

Two pages that show multiple people, perhaps relatives of the primary couple:

If you recognize a person and/or a place, please leave a comment for the benefit of other researchers.

All pages in order: click on any image to enlarge it.