Museum Makes Images From the Past Available Historic Glass Plate Negatives Will Be Used for New Prints

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SEARSPORT - Until they invent a time machine, crystal-clear photographs made from glass plate negatives are the next best thing.

The Penobscot Marine Museum has recently taken ownership of more than 30,000 glass plate negatives made by the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. from 1909 to the 1950s and is now making the images available for suitable-for-framing prints.

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Museum Makes Images From the Past Available Historic Glass Plate Negatives Will Be Used for New Prints

A visit to the museum's Web site devoted to the collection - glassplateimages.com - reveals the number of images available from towns in Maine.

Kevin Johnson, who worked on the collection when it wa...

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