All Kendall Collection Images

Guy Kendall's Photography
Exploring Guy Kendall’s photographic work starting in 1924, the viewer watches the progression from posed still shots of horses with their trainer/drivers to action shots which capture the excitement of races at the finish line. Through the albums, one is able to watch the growth of relationships between Kendall and the horsemen and women of the southern Maine fair circuit as remote, documentary snaps of horses and drivers become intimate portraits both at the race track and on area farms.

Kendall’s career at the track was put on pause in 1928 as he courted and then married Ruth B. Bennett. Kendall’s work resumed in the album labeled 1930a, where it is possible to see a quantum leap in the quality of his composition from images that were simply a matter of record to those with genuine artistic flair.

According to his niece, Anne Kendall Holmbom, Kendall used a Graflex box camera and glass negatives to capture many of his early photographs. He developed, printed, and re-touched all his photographs personally in his studio located on Congress Street in Portland, Maine.

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Red Fern

Owner: A. Demers
Driver: Potvin
Race: 2.07 1/2 Trot
Date: 9-27-1940
Red Grattan

Owner: A. Hayes
Driver: Unidentified
Race: Classified Pace
Date: 9-17-1936
Red Grattan

Owner: W. E. Wright
Driver: Wright
Race: N. T. Fox Co. Special Pace
Date: 8-6-1935
Red March

Owner: Unknown
Driver: C. Spoon
Race: 2.12 Class Pace, Sage Park, Windsor Connecticut
Date: 7-8-1926
Red Russell

Owner: Frank P. Fox
Driver: Frank P. Fox
Race: Pine Tree Circuit Races, Maine State Fair Grounds, Lewiston, Maine
Date: 7-18-1924
Red Volo

Owner: A. R. Lohnes
Driver: Lohnes
Race: 2.12 Trot
Date: 7-8-1941
Reel

Owner:
Driver: Thompson
Race: 2.20 Trot and Pace
Date: 10-12-1933
Reel

Owner:
Driver: Thompson
Race: 2.20 Trot and Pace
Date: 10-12-1933
Rella McKlyo — Gerow up

Owner: G. W. Gerow
Driver: Gerow
Race: 2.21 Trot and Pace
Date: 9-1933
Remus

Owner: Short Stables
Driver: W. Fleming
Race: Handicap Trot
Date: 7-19-1941
Rena Azoff

Owner: H. M. Stanford
Driver: A. Martin
Race: 2.09 Class Trot
Date: 7-7-1927
Reno Hanover

Owner: W. B. Ecker
Driver: H. Goodhart
Race: 2.17 Class Trot
Date: 7-15-1932
Renoun--Crozier up

Owner: Sullivan & Mawhinney
Driver: Crozier
Race: Pine Tree Circuit
Date: 7-2-1936
Renoun wins 1st race

Owner: John R. Sullivan & Fred Mawhinney
Driver: Henry Clukey
Race: 2.14 Pacing
Date: 10-12-1938
Renoun wins [Renown wins]

Owner: John R. Sullivan & Fred Mawhinney
Driver: W. Crozier
Race: 2.18 Class Trot
Date: 6-23-1936
Renown

Owner: John R. Sullivan
Driver: L. Toole
Race: The American Stake Two Year Olds Trot
Date: 8-3-1935