Historic Maine in 3-D w/ the Maine State Museum

Join us March 31st @ 6 pm in the library as Bernard Fishman, Director of the Maine State Museum in Augusta, presents a new Maine State Museum program, ‘Historic Maine in 3-D.’ This features a modern way of looking at the most important form of early 19 th century commercial photography, which used binocular images on cards or glass, called stereoviews today, to allow images to be seen in 3-D when looked at through a viewer.

Largely from the 1860s and ‘70s, just after the Civil War, 3-D glasses will allow you to view these as they were meant to be viewed. You’ll see a Maine of small cities and villages, farmers, shipbuilders, and industrial workers in mines and factories; parades and entertainments, social and life-cycle events, homes with their kitchens and parlors, family portraits, institutional buildings and employees, hunters, loggers, Natives, and many moments of life in Maine 150 years ago. Fishman will also discuss the museum’s work in preserving images like these and using modern methods to make them available for future generations to enjoy and study.