An image of a gallery with wooden floors and white walls. In the froreground a photographer with a tripod has his back to the viewer, facing him is a woman in a dress standing in front of a green wall.

September 17 –
December 11, 2015

This exhibition examined the role photography played in both constructing and challenging the popular tourist image of Maine and the image of life in Maine in the early twentieth century using three collections at USM: The Detroit Publishing photographs from the 1900s–1920s, the Farm Security Administration’s photographs from 1935–1941, and an African-American Photographic Album of Maine, c. 1949–50. Curated by USM professors Donna Cassidy and Libby Bischof.

A black and white photograph of a woman and two small children in a kitchen around the 1930s.