Keywords: Morse Cottage
Item 18642
Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1930 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard
Item 81104
Order of Supplies from Morse Co. for A.C. Savage & Sons, Northeast Harbor, 1898
Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: 1898 Location: Mount Desert Media: Ink on paper
Item 89319
Summer Dwelling, Brook Lane, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Stephen E. Morse Use: Summer Dwelling
Item 78362
76 Upland Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Julia M. Scanlon Use: Cottage
Exhibit
Summer Folk: The Postcard View
Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."
Exhibit
Jameson & Wotton Wharf, Friendship
Since 1897, the Jameson & Wotton Wharf in Friendship has been an important addition to the community on Muscongus Bay. The wharf, which is accessible at all tides, was a steamboat stop for many years, as well as important to the lobster business.
