Bussell - Hand-colored Photo of Camden coast
Decorative Object
Identifier:
OBJ.S.1981.11b
Description
Hand-colored photograph of a view of the Maine coast at Camden. The back has a printed label with the text "This Picture is a Camden Water Color from the Potter Studio, Camden, Maine. Duplicates can be obtained by ordering Number 388a", with the number hand-written. The name Potter Studio refers to a photography studio owned and operated by Jay Potter and his wife for most of the first half of the 20th century. It went by the name of Potter Studio from about 1924 until the death of Jay Potter in 1962. Hand-colored photographs (using water-color in this case) were popular in the 1920s and 1930s, before color photography became affordable.