Anyone who has visited the Fryeburg Public Library has seen Ben Newman’s painting of an idyllic elm-lined Main Street in Fryeburg, Maine. 

As the postcard here demonstrates, the painting was not the product of Newman’s romantic imagination. The image was taken between 1902 and 1905, because the John Stevens monument (visible in the center distance) was raised at the end of Portland Street in 1902, and this postcard was sent to Miss Alice Thompson of North Conway on Jan. 9, 1906.

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