Maine Life at the Turn of the Century: Through the Photographs of Nettie Cummings Maxim

by Jack Barnes and Diane Barnes

Book Overview

The typical farm life of a Mainer pre-1910 is told through the photographs of Nettie Cummings Maxim.

Before her death in 1910, Nettie Cummings Maxim chronicled the people, landscapes, and animals of a typical Maine farm at Bird Hill in Bethel at the turn of the century. In a time before mass media, her world consisted almost entirely of her family and farm. This intimate familiarity with her immediate world and a degree of cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738557714
• ISBN13: 9780738557717
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.4" x 9.0"