{"id":102526,"date":"2016-07-27T17:14:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T21:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=102526"},"modified":"2016-07-29T12:02:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T16:02:29","slug":"slideshow-scenes-of-maine-summer-and-harvest-from-george-french-class-of-1908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2016\/07\/27\/slideshow-scenes-of-maine-summer-and-harvest-from-george-french-class-of-1908\/","title":{"rendered":"Slideshow: Bygone Maine summer and harvest scenes from George French, Class of 1908"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of his life work, Maine photographer George W. French, Class of 1908, once said, \u201cI hope to leave a sort of monument to…preserving in pictures the dignity and charm of everyday folks and their ways of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Besides chronicling everyday Maine life, French was also marketing it.<\/p>\n

As the official photographer for the Maine Development Commission, then responsible for promoting Maine\u2019s economic and recreational potential, French was among the first to visually interpret the Maine slogan “Vacationland.”<\/p>\n

Here’s a selection of images that begins to describe the monument left by George French.<\/p>\n\t\n\t

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From much later in French's career, 1955, an unidentified couple strikes a pose on an Ogunquit, Maine, beach. (George French \/ Collections of the Maine Historical Society, www.vintagemaineimages.com<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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An undated photo of three men sorting lobsters. (George French photo \/ Maine State Archives)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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An undated photo of two men standing next to a horse and buggy in Farmington inspecting what might be a basket of potatoes. (George French photo \/ Maine State Archives)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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From 1945, a haying operation in Houlton. (George French photo \/ Maine State Archives)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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From 1944, a lumber mill in Hiram. (George French photo \/ Maine State Archives)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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A version of this photo story appeared in the Summer 1996 issue of Bates Magazine<\/em>. Except where noted, these images are from the George French Collection of the Maine State Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A chronicler of everyday Maine life, George French was also among the first photographers to interpret the Maine slogan “Vacationland.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":102570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,32,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-maine-and-new-england","category-slideshow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102526"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102550,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102526\/revisions\/102550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}