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The Frederick B. Quimby Photographic Collection includes over 250 glass plate negatives from which study prints were made. These images are annotated in detail, and their pictorial quality is unusually high. The subject coverage of the collection is similar to that of the Emma Lewis Coleman Photographic Collection. Quimby documented all phases of farm life, plowing, planting, cultivating, harvesting, cidering, and hauling, set against the background of local landscape and architecture.
Source: Guide to the Library and Archives, 10.
farms
farming
plows (agricultural equipment)
planting
cider mills
glass (material)
families
black-and-white prints (photographs)
black-and-white negatives
photographic plates
ca. 250 photographic prints : black-and-white
ca. 250 glass plate negatives : black-and-white
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Frederick B. Quimby photographic collection, 1890s
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Raynes Neck (York county, Maine) [cape]
Groundnut Hill (York county, Maine) [peak]
Cape Neddick (York county, Maine)
Quimby, Frederick B., 1868-1896 (Photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
black-and-white negatives
photographic plates
Harvesting
Tillage
York (Me.)
Collection
Frederick B. Quimby was born in 1868 and was a professional photographer active in the 1890s. He operated a studio in York, Maine while his permanent residence was in Malden, Massachusetts. Quimby died in 1896 at age 32. In spite of his short career, he left a major legacy of documentary photographs depicting the daily and seasonal round of farm life at Rayne's Neck and Ground Nut Hill, the family homes of his mother and father near York.
Source: Guide to the Library and Archives, 10.
Related photographs are in the possession of the Old Gaol Museum at York, Maine.
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