Web designer Patrick McElhiney has enhanced the Thom Hindle Collection website, Images of the Past Gallery, to display additional thumbnails of the more than 100,000 photographs preserved on glass plate negatives from the early 1900’s. The Thom Hindle Collection contains negatives from more than 27 New England photographers, including Charles Sawyer and George Colby from Concord, NH, and The Bartlett Sisters from Dorchester, Massachusetts. The negatives include photographs taken in and around Dover NH, Rochester NH, Portsmouth NH, the lakes and seacoast region, the White Mountains, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Washington D.C., and upstate New York. Other collections include a Children’s section, Transportation, and “Filler ‘R Up” which features old gas stations including Tydol, Jenney, Flying A, Atlantic, and Esso.

Most prominent in the Hindle Collection is the visit of President Roosevelt to Dover NH in 1903, the Sawyer Mansion, the Damm Garrison house, and the Cog Railroad leading up to the White Mountains in the early 1900’s. The Children’s section features Christmas Morning, a boy sitting alone next to a decorated Christmas Tree, Tea Party, a girl sitting alone pouring tea at a table, as well as Horsehead Tricycle and Baby Bath. Lakes included are Lake Winnipesaukee, Eagle Lake, Meredith Bay, Alton Bay, as well as photographs of ice boating and the Mt. Washington steam boat in 1910. Photographs in Maine include Perkins Cove, Old Orchard Beach, the Airship Shenandoah, Fillebrown Bros. Dry Goods, and Old Fellows Hall.

The Thom Hindle Collection includes many colored photographs for sale in frames as well, including the Nubble Light House in York ME, Old Man On The Mountain, the US Capitol, Kimball Castle, and Willoughby Lake.

Visit the Images of the Past Gallery Website.