Collections

Atlantic Fisherman A collection of more than 1000 prints and negatives from Atlantic Fisherman monthly from 1919-1950’s documenting the fishing industry of the Northeast coast.The Atlantic Fisherman was founded as a monthly in Boston in 1919 as "a paper for fishermen...

Martin R. Bartlett Collection Marty Bartlett, now in his eighties, is done with the ocean, but he’s a character who was clearly shaped by his lifelong interaction with it. His photographs are a privileged on-deck view of tuna and sword fishing during a critical time...

Carroll Thayer Berry Berry’s collection at the Penobscot Marine Museum consists of more than 9,000 negatives, 4,300 prints, hundreds of slides and 28 working sketches for wood block prints and screens.Carroll Thayer Berry was a man of many talents — an able artist,...

Boothbay Region Maritime Foundation Research Collection Preserving the Boothbay Maritime Heritage by supporting working waterfront, promoting sustainable practices, and embracing the educational opportunities the stewardship provides.   R2019.11.99Penobscot Marine...

Everett L. “Red” Boutilier The archives of a free-lance photographer and journalist from Bremen, Maine whose tireless work ethic produced more than 20,000 negatives and prints with a strong focus on boats and their builders of Midcoast Maine. Photo: Anna Hoyt    ...

Joanna Colcord, 1882 – 1960 More than 600 glass and cellulose negatives taken by the daughter of a famous Searsport Sea Captain at the turn of the century as well as a 300 page scrapbook detailing her travels. Joanna Colcord was born March 12, 1882, in the South Seas...

Charles R. Coombs, 1862-1940 Six albums and over 700 glass plate negatives which, represent both the Coombs family life as well as Belfast and other nearby towns made by an undertaker.Charles R. Coombs was born in Belfast, March 20, 1862, the son of Captain Robert...

Cunningham Brothers Collection Like many practitioners of folk photography, Frank and Bert Cunningham have become posthumous documentarians of a vanished world. They were born a few years apart shortly after the Civil War ended [1865] in the village of Washington,...

Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company More than 50,000 glass plate and film negatives made by photographers of a “real photo” postcard manufacturer in Belfast which covers Maine as well as the rest of New England and Upstate New YorkIn 1909, R. Herman Cassens,...

Harriet Hichborn Harriet Hichborn should be remembered as an irrepressible artist with a fearless nature and a loyal heart. She was born in Stockton Springs into a large and notable family in late August of 1869.The Harriet Hichborn Collection was donated to PMM in...

David J. Lindsay The collection includes 235 glass plate and film negatives and a few prints taken during the first half of the 20th century, primarily of Lincoln County, Maine, but also including buildings and street views of Boston, Massachusetts, and Burlington,...

The collection contains more than 2500 photographs, decades of statistical reports, industry regulations and standards, marketing and publicity plans and materials, newspaper and magazine articles, correspondence, and historical writings documenting the fisheries,...

Peggy McKenna Collection The Peggy McKenna Collection was donated to the Penobscot Marine Museum in 2015 by her husband Doug Thomas and her good friend Wendy Rowland. Peggy McKenna was born in Pennsylvania in 1947, and moved to Montville, Maine in 1971. With some time...

M. Elmer Montgomery The mid-coast waterfronts and the ships that cruised their waters are the primary subjects of over 700 negatives made in the 1930’s and 40’s. M. Elmer Montgomery was born in 1912 at Ingrahams Hill in what was then South Thomaston, Maine, now Owls...

Ruth Montgomery Close to 500 glass plate negatives from a sea captain's daughter from Boothbay that document her life and travels.Ruth Montgomery was a daughter of the sea; her father, Capt. Adelbert Montgomery, both grandfathers, and many of her uncles and grand...

National Fisherman is the nation’s preeminent publication in the commercial fishing industry, originally a consolidation of earlier, regional fisheries trade papers. In 2012, Diversified Communications of Portland, ME, donated the magazine’s entire pre-digital...

William Parse This collection consists of 120 glass plate negatives, believed to have been taken by Captain William Parse. The photographs, most of which were taken in Searsport and nearby, include portraits, family groupings, gatherings and outings, parades, houses,...

James Perkins The collection includes 530 4×5, 5×7, and 6½x8½ glass plate negatives as well as a few other glass and film negatives taken by James Perkins, a steamboat captain on the Kennebec River from the 1880s through the 1930s. Captain Perkins was born 1867 and...

Phillips Collection The Phillips Collection consists of more than 30 original maps of regions of Maine and some 600 original postcards as well as the original 35mm slides used to create them. These materials were created by brothers, Augustus "Gus" and Luther Phillips...

Searsport Sea Captains This collection of 284 photographs of sea captains from Searsport was compiled by Colonel Frederick Frazier Black, USA (1876-1953). Accompanying each photograph is a brief biographical sketch, including the names of ships commanded. Searsport...

Frederick Ross Sweetser Nearly 400 glass plate negatives made by a Searsport professor who lived in a house, which is now part of the Penobscot Marine Museum’s campus as well as Joanna Colcord’s uncle. Frederick Ross Sweetser was born in Searsport, Maine on May 15,...