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Photo Exhibit: Selections from the Elmer Montgomery Collection and Selections from The Atlantic Fisherman

Posted Jan. 28, 2012, at 1:19 p.m.
Last modified March 15, 2012, at 4:32 a.m.

Wednesday, February 1 to Monday, April 30; 7 a.m. to 9:45 p.m.

Location: Hutchinson Center, 80 Belmont Ave., Belfast, Maine

Contact: ; 207-338-8000

Website: penobscotmarinemuseum.org/photo-collections/elmer-montgomery.html

Through April 30, 2012.

Two exhibits with boats and the sea as their subjects from photography collections of Penobscot Marine Museum. The collection of Elmer Montgomery, born in South Thomaston in 1912, contains hundreds of finely-crafted photographs of boats, ships and waterfront scenes in Rockland and other midcoast communities prior to World War II. The Atlantic Fisherman was a Belfast based trade paper for commercial fishermen. The archives of its photography document the early days of mechanized fishing.

Free. At the Hutchinson Center, Belfast.

Monday – Thursday 7am-9:45pm

Friday 7am-9pm

Saturday 8am-12noon

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