Coombs photographs and papers, 1860-1969.

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Coombs photographs and papers, 1860-1969.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71128790

Collection contains: 515 4" x 5" glass neatives; 165 5" x 7" glass negatives; one album with ca. 600 contemporary prints; nine smaller photo albums; three funeral home ledgers; one nautical chart; and five ms. volumes.

12 linear ft.

Penobscot Marine Museum

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SNAC Resource ID: 8076013

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Coombs Funeral Home (Belfast, Me.)

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Cora (Ship)

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Coombs family

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Belfast Old Home Week (Belfast, Me.)

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Coombs, Charles R., 1862-1940

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Robert H. Coombs of Belfast, Maine, was a sea captain. With his son Charles R. Coombs, he also owned R.H. Coombs & Son, a store in Belfast dealing in furniture, cameras and photographic equipment. Letterhead for the store notes that undertaking was also a specialty. From the description of Account book, 1890-1934. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122882581 ...

Coombs, Horace M., 1910-2000

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Robert H. Coombs, sea captain, of Belfast, Me., married Harriet Pendleton in 1850. Their son Charles R. Coombs, an amateur photographer, began making 4" x 5" glass plate negatives in 1892; around 1895 he began using a 5" x 7" format camera; also took photographs in smaller formats with celluloid and paper negatives. He worked in the undertaking business purchased by his father when the captain retired and took over the business when his father died. Horace M. Coombs, local historian, and son of ...

Coombs, Robert Hudson, 1828-1897

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Robert Hudson Coombs was a sea captain out of Belfast, Me. One of his vessels was the Cora. This memoir about his life at sea, beginning 1 Nov. 1869, is a 38 page poem. From the description of A journal of my wandering life, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 747723158 ...