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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Streamline wins 2nd Race

Owner: H. M. Day
Driver: Day
Race: Oxford County Fair
Date: 7-25-1936
Streamline wins 5th Race

Owner: H. M. Day
Driver: Day
Race: Oxford County Fair
Date: 7-25-1936
Styx

Owner: Ralph Kennett
Driver: Patterson
Race: Sunday Telegram 2.19 Trot
Date: 8-1934
Styx winning

Owner: Ralph Kennett
Driver: Patterson
Race: Sunday Telegram 2.19 Trot
Date: 8-1934
Sully

Owner: J. H. Breen
Driver: Cummings
Race: Topsham Fair
Date: 10-12-1939
Sully

Owner: J. H. Breen
Driver: Cummings
Race: Overcoat Meet
Date: 10-19-1939
Sunderland Maid

Owner: R. C. Grant
Driver: Grant
Race: Cal Young Fuel Co. Race
Date: 9-7-1937
Sunderlin Maid wins

Owner: R. Rourke
Driver: Grant
Race: 2.25 Trot
Date: 7-2-1938
Sunfire

Owner: M. F. Fizgerald
Driver: Morgan
Race: Classified Mixed Race
Date: 9-8-1938
Sunfire

Owner: M. F. Fitzgerald
Driver: M. Fitzgerald
Race: 2.24 Class Trot
Date: 6-22-1936
Sunfire

Owner: M. F. Fizgerald, Agt.
Driver: Mrs. Pratt
Race: Ladies Race
Date: 9-10-1938
Sunny Earl

Owner: Unknown
Driver: Mason
Race: 2.20 Trot and Pace
Date: 10-12-1927
Sunny Hanover

Owner: H. A. Day
Driver: Day
Race: E. J. Record, Grocier 2.19 Trot
Date: 9-12-1935
Sunnymede (outside) wins

Owner: J. W. Grantham
Driver: F. Rowe
Race: 2.10 Trot
Date: 7-21-1939
Sunnymede [Sunny Meade]

Owner: F. W. Woodman
Driver: W. Carney
Race: Pine Tree Circuit
Date: 7-2-1936
Sunnymede wins 2nd race

Owner: William Grantham
Driver: Rowe
Race: 2.18 Trot
Date: 10-7-1938