SEARSPORT — Historic images from Penobscot Marine Museum’s collection of more than 140,000 photographs will be available at the Maine 2015 Antique Paper Show 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, June 27, at the First Congregational Church Vestry, 8 Church St. This show complements the museum’s photography exhibit, “Exploring the Magic of Photography: Painting with Light,” which includes a gigantic walk-in camera obscura.
The museum’s collection of historic photographs began with a collection of negatives from a turn-of-the-nineteenth-century postcard company, Eastern Illustrated and Publishing Company of Belfast. Postcards, which were hugely popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and their glass plate negatives still have a significant presence in the museum’s collection. They paint a picture with words as well as images of life a 100 years ago.
The Maine 2015 Antique Paper Show: Postcards and Paper Collectibles will include thousands of vintage postcards, old maps, historic photographs, sheet music and paper ephemera. Free appraisals for paper collectibles will be available 1-3 p.m.
Admission is $2 and includes $2 off a Penobscot Marine Museum admission ticket.
For information, call Kevin Johnson at 548-2529, ext.210.