Diane Barnes / Jack Barnes
Maine Life at the Turn of the Century
- Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
- 1995
- Gebunden
- 130 Seiten
- ISBN 9781531637019
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 isolation allowed Nettie to explore and capture on film the details of farm life through the seasons and the innocence and wisdom in the eyes of the children whose lives were so closely entwined with life on a rural Maine hill farm. After one look at her photographs,
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