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Exhibit proves we’ve been photographing the same things for 150 years — except maybe our dead relatives

Postmortem image of Mrs. William H. Herbert by an unknown Daguerreotypist, circa 1843.

The images currently on display at the Maine Historical Society’s Brown Research Library in Portland in the Early Maine Photography, 1840-1870 exhibition look pretty familiar. All the photographs (Daguerreotypes, tintypes and ambrotypes) are of Maine subjects, or were made by Maine photographers, in the 19th century. The technology of photography has changed at lot since then, but the […]