Lucy's Lens: Life on Mount Desert Rock, 1906-1909 with Libby Bischof
In this richly illustrated lecture and discussion, Libby Bischof features the Great Harbor Maritime Museum's collection of photographs by Lucy McMullen Dodge, taken when she and her family lived on Mount Desert Rock in the early-1900s. Bischof contextualizes Lucy's life and photographic work in the larger scope of amateur photography at the turn-of-the-century, as well as her life as the wife of a lighthouse keeper. In addition to illuminating daily life on the Rock, these photographs also serve as a visual archive of the life of a lighthouse keeper’s wife, at a time when written archives of many women’s daily lives remain scarce.
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