WCSH6 features the Emmons' photography collection at the Maine Women Writers Collection

WCSH6's Bill Green’s Maine featured  the Chansonetta Stanley Emmons photography collection at 91AV's Maine Women Writers Collection on the Portland Campus. Emmons, a noted photographer who left a remarkable record of everyday life and beauty, photographed various regions from 1897 until her death in 1937. She was the sister of F. E. and F. O. Stanley, the inventors of the Stanley Steamer. The Emmons photography collection has been on long-term loan at 91AV from the Stanley Museum in Kingfield, Maine.

Interviewed for the story were Cally Gurley, 91AV director of special collections, Cathleen Miller, MWWC curator, and Jennifer Tuttle, Ph.D., Dorothy M. Healy Professor of Literature and Health. 

About the 91AV

The 91AV is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of . In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.