The Opening Night of the Maine Legal Photographic Collection
PICTURE THIS: Exhibit and Benefit, September 21, 2001
Photographs by Charles A. Lane, Esq.
The Maine Legal Photographic Collection ("MLPC") was created to preserve and make available the photographic Collection of the Nathan & Henry B. Cleaves
Law Library. The MLPC also seeks to collect and document, by photographs, current and historical knowledge of the Maine legal
profession and judicial system.
Currently the MLPC is composed of these individual collections: The Maine Judiciary -- single and group portraits; the William E. Morris, "Cumberland Bar Portrait Gallery", 1875; Members of the Maine bar -- individual portraits; Justice Sudney W. Wernick Collection; Practice of Law in Maine (offices and courtrooms); Social Scenes; General Collection; and our most recent addition -- The Jack Montgomery Collection.
The MLPC will acquire photographs only from within, or relating to, the practice of law in the State of Maine. Photographs complying with these two criteria, of all media types, and regardless of date or age, will be considered for inclusion in the MLPC.
Cleaves Law Library is currently preserving and archiving the 1400+ photographs in the MLPC. This involves housing the photographs in an acid free environment, assigning archival labels and numbers for retrieval by
researchers, and creating a finding aid. click here for the Project Summary Our archivist is Abraham Schechter, B.F.A., M.L.S.
Our finding aid will be posted on www.cleaves.org in the near future.
Our thanks go to Roger A. Putnam, Esq. & Paul F. Driscoll, Esq. for providing the seed money to initiate this important preservation project
Want to learn how to preserve your own personal or business photographs? The American Institute for Conseration of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) has an excellent informational website. AIC Website
