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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His Eminence wins from Walter Brown
Owner: Mark Kyler
Driver: Unidentified
Race: Old Orchard Beach Track Association
Date: 6-24-1936 -
His Highness--Safford up
Owner: Ralph Dawson
Driver: Safford
Race: Oxford County Fair
Date: 7-22-1936 -
His Majesty
Owner: E. J. Baker
Driver: S. Palin
Race: Lowell Service Clubs Stake—2.10 Class Pace
Date: 8-1-1934 -
His Majesty
Owner: E. J. Baker
Driver: S. Palin
Race: Lowell Service Clubs Stake—2.10 Class Pace
Date: 8-1-1934 -
H. K. Worthy wins 2nd Race
Owner: E. P. Cray
Driver: Safford
Race: Free-for-All Pace
Date: 10-29-1936 -
H. K. Worthy wins 2nd Race
Owner: E. P. Cray
Driver: Frank Safford
Race: Free-for-All Trot and Pace
Date: 8-6-1936 -
Hollyrood Audrey II
Owner: Dunbar W. Bostwick
Driver: H. Whitney
Race: 2.03 Trot for Horses with Records 2.03 1/4 to 2.06
Date: 7-27-1939 -
Hollyrood Audrey II wins
Owner: Dunbar W. Bostwick
Driver: H. Whitney
Race: 2.06 Trot Horses with Record of 2.06 1-4 to 2.10
Date: 7-17-1939 -
Hollyrood Bergen wins 1st race
Owner: John F. Duffy
Driver: Gendron
Race: Classified Pacing
Date: 8-27-1938 -
![Hollyrood Bob Jr. [Hollywood Bob, Jr.] by Guy Kendall](https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/kendall_images/1585/thumbnail.jpg "Hollyrood Bob Jr. [Hollywood Bob, Jr.] by Guy Kendall")
Hollyrood Bob Jr. [Hollywood Bob, Jr.]
Owner: J. H. Haddock
Driver: Haddock
Race: 2.16 Trot or Pace
Date: 8-5-1931
