"If You Give a Girl a Camera” presentation with Jeana Ganskop of Penobscot Marine Museum
Going by Portland Head Light on the bark CARRIE WINSLOW. Photo taken by Ruth Montgomery around 1900. Ruth Montgomery Collection, LB1990.49.11. Looking aloft on the ship STATE OF MAINE. Photo taken by Joanna Colcord around 1900. Joanna Colcord Collection, LB2003.61.1431. (Collage courtesy Camden Public Library)
Going by Portland Head Light on the bark CARRIE WINSLOW. Photo taken by Ruth Montgomery around 1900. Ruth Montgomery Collection, LB1990.49.11. Looking aloft on the ship STATE OF MAINE. Photo taken by Joanna Colcord around 1900. Joanna Colcord Collection, LB2003.61.1431. (Collage courtesy Camden Public Library)
CAMDEN — Camden Public Library is once again partnering with the Penobscot Marine Museum for the library's annual themed Maritime Month program series. The museum’s exhibit “If You Give a Girl a Camera” will be on view in the Picker Room Gallery at the Camden Public Library during Maritime Month this April.*
Jeana Ganskop, education director of the Penobscot Marine Museum, will give a presentation about this exhibit on Saturday, April 12, at 3 p.m., in-person in the Picker Room. Free and open to all. Light refreshments will be provided.
Joanna Colcord and Ruth Montgomery each used photography to pass the time and to document voyages at sea. Both came from small, coastal Maine communities with long legacies of seagoing. "If You Give a Girl a Camera" looks specifically at the years 1899 and 1900 when Joanna and Ruth sailed from the United States as 18-year-olds and features photographs the girls took at that time.
Large prints formatted with a social media vibe seek to meld the past and present and encourage visitors to consider Joanna and Ruth as people like you and me. What did a young woman take pictures of in 1899 or 1900? What do you take pictures of today?
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