Local History Archives - Maureen Taylor https://maureentaylor.com/category/local-history/ The Photo Detective Mon, 05 Feb 2024 13:27:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://maureentaylor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/cropped-site-icon-32x32.png Local History Archives - Maureen Taylor https://maureentaylor.com/category/local-history/ 32 32 99869351 Episode 219: Preserving Local History Through Film: A Conversation with Northeast Historic Film https://maureentaylor.com/episode-219preserving-local-history-through-film-a-conversation-with-northeast-historic-film/ Sun, 05 Nov 2023 17:01:15 +0000 https://maureentaylor.com/?p=74628     Northeast Historic Film is a nonprofit organization founded in 1986 to preserve and share historic films from Maine and the broader New England region. Based in Bucksport, Maine, their extensive collection includes home movies, local TV news, documentary films, and more. In this episode of the Photo Detective podcast, co-founders David Weiss and […]

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Northeast Historic Film is a nonprofit organization founded in 1986 to preserve and share historic films from Maine and the broader New England region. Based in Bucksport, Maine, their extensive collection includes home movies, local TV news, documentary films, and more. In this episode of the Photo Detective podcast, co-founders David Weiss and Jane Donnell discuss their mission to save endangered films and make them accessible through digitization and online platforms.

  • Northeast Historic Film started in 1986 to preserve and share historic films from Maine and the broader New England region. Their collection includes home movies, local TV news, documentary films, and more.
  • They provide film preservation services like digitization for individuals and institutions. They have climate-controlled vaults for long-term storage of film.
  • Home movies are a core part of their collection. These give insights into everyday life, local history, family dynamics, fashion, and architecture.
  • Their theater shows archival clips before contemporary films. They also share films on their website, YouTube, etc.
  • Filmmakers and documentarians contact them looking for footage to license. The pandemic increased demand as people created more archival-based projects.
  • They constantly get new donations as historic films surface from basements, attics, etc. Digitization is a key focus to make the films more accessible.
  • Watching the films, especially with original audiences, shows their power for storytelling, nostalgia, and passing on local history.

Episode 172: Vintage Film Finds with B. Wells Douglas  

Episode 65: Lost Films Needs Your Help with Eli Savada

About My Guests:

David S. Weiss is the co-founder and executive director of Northeast Historic Film, a non-profit moving image archive located in Bucksport, Maine.  Jane Donnell is the Marketing, Membership & Theatre Manager. Since its founding in 1986, NHF has built collections including more than 12 million feet of film and 10,000 hours of videotape.  The facility includes a 3-story climate-controlled moving image vault building, technical services section, study center and the Alamo Theater.  

   

About Maureen Taylor:

Maureen Taylor, The Photo DetectiveTM helps clients with photo related genealogical problems. Her pioneering work in historic photo research has earned her the title “the nation’s foremost historical photo detective” by The Wall Street Journal and appearances on The View, The Today Show, Pawn Stars, and others.   Learn more at Maureentaylor.com

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]]> 74628 Episode 218:The Encyclopedia of Things with Creator Elisabeth Smolarz https://maureentaylor.com/episode-218the-encyclopedia-of-things-with-creator-elisabeth-smolarz/ Sun, 22 Oct 2023 14:36:47 +0000 https://maureentaylor.com/?p=74542     This week on the podcast, Maureen is joined by Elisabeth Smolarz, who created the Encyclopedia of Things. They discuss the items that define our lives and why we keep them.  Related Episodes: Episode 187: Building a Story with the Ancestry.com App Episode 180: Photos, Memories, and English Genealogy with Emma Jolly   Links: […]

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This week on the podcast, Maureen is joined by Elisabeth Smolarz, who created the Encyclopedia of Things. They discuss the items that define our lives and why we keep them. 

Episode 187: Building a Story with the Ancestry.com App

Episode 180: Photos, Memories, and English Genealogy with Emma Jolly

 

Links:

About My Guest:

Elisabeth Smolarz was born in Poland and emigrated to Germany as a teenager. She creates photography, video, and social interactions investigating how consciousness, perception, identity, and value are formed by one’s cultural milieu.

Smolarz has exhibited her work nationally and internationally for two decades. Her most recent solo exhibition, the “Encyclopedia of Things,” was presented at the Morgan Lehman Gallery resulting from a multi-year project supported by National Endowment for the Arts; the Queens Council on the Arts; and the City Artist Corps Grants program, and featured on PBS on 03/14/20. The German publisher Spector Books published a monograph with a selection of 120 portraits from the “Encyclopedia of Things” in the summer of 2022. The monograph was reviewed by Brooklyn Rail this Spring. Additionally, her work has been presented in venues including The Bronx Museum of Art, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, EYEBEAM Center for Art + Technology, Lesley Heller Gallery, NARS Foundation, The Sculpture Center, Smack Mellon, The Queens Museum of Art, and Wave Hill, all New York City; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland; Oberwelt e.V Stuttgart, Germany; Baden Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany; Photography Triennial Esslingen, Germany; Independent Museum of Contemporary Art, Cyprus; Reykjavik Photography Museum, Iceland; Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló, Spain; the Moscow Biennale, and others.

About Maureen Taylor:

Maureen Taylor, The Photo DetectiveÒhelps clients with photo related genealogical problems. Her pioneering work in historic photo research has earned her the title “the nation’s foremost historical photo detective” by The Wall Street Journal and appearances on The View, The Today Show, Pawn Stars, and others.   Learn more at Maureentaylor.com

Did you enjoy this episode? Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts.

 

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]]> 74542 Bonus Episode: Meet Me At The Biltmore by Amanda Blount https://maureentaylor.com/bonus-episode-meet-me-at-the-biltmore-by-amanda-blount/ Sun, 03 Sep 2023 13:45:06 +0000 https://maureentaylor.com/?p=74283     In this week’s bonus episode, Maureen Taylor, The Photo Detective, is joined by author Amanda Quay Blount. Amanda has recently been taking the literary scene in Rhode Island (and beyond) by storm, as she recently published Meet Me at the Biltmore, a historical look at The Biltmore Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island, which […]

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In this week’s bonus episode, Maureen Taylor, The Photo Detective, is joined by author Amanda Quay Blount.

Amanda has recently been taking the literary scene in Rhode Island (and beyond) by storm, as she recently published Meet Me at the Biltmore, a historical look at The Biltmore Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island, which has been around for over 100 years, and seen many famous visitors, including John F. Kennedy and The Rolling Stones.

In this episode, she and Maureen discuss the hotel, Amanda’s writing process, what it means to fall in love with a historic building, and how to tell its story.

 

Bonus Episode: Chat GPT, Image Generators, and What You Need To Know

Bonus Episode: Tintypes Made for the Movies and Television with Rob Gibson

About My Guest:

Amanda Quay Blount is an author and historian who lives in Rhode Island. Amanda hails from New Jersey but came to the Ocean State in 2018 and was instantly enthralled by the historic allure of the city. Amanda holds a degree in History from Rutgers University and a Master in Social Work and Community Development from Washington University in St. Louis. When she isn’t writing or researching, Amanda runs a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting adult literacy.

About Maureen Taylor:

Maureen Taylor, The Photo DetectiveÒhelps clients with photo related genealogical problems. Her pioneering work in historic photo research has earned her the title “the nation’s foremost historical photo detective” by The Wall Street Journal and appearances on The View, The Today Show, Pawn Stars, and others.   Learn more at Maureentaylor.com

Did you enjoy this episode? Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts.

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