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Charles A. Lowe was born in Gloucester August 17, 1932 to Arthur W. and Anna Marie (Robishaw) Lowe. He attended Gloucester public schools and received his high school diploma while serving in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. He did much of his training, including aerial photography, at the U.S.Navy Photo School in Washington D.C., and served as photographer’s mate second-class. He graduated in 1957 from the Franklin Technical Institute in Boston, majoring in photography. He also studied color technique at the Professional Technical Center of the Eastman Kodak Company in 1969, and did further studies at the Montserrat School of Visual Arts in Beverly.

The images in this collection are all output from Charlie Lowe’s work as chief photographer for the Gloucester Daily Times, with the exception of a series of color images that formed the basis of an exhibition at the Sawyer Free Library in 1979. Although Charlie’s employment at the newspaper lasted for almost 25 years, the negatives in this collection are primarily from the years 1974 to 1980, with significant gaps here and there through that span. 

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