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Historical Items

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Item 78872

Seaside Inn, Seal Harbor, 1891

Contributed by: Northeast Harbor Library Date: 1891 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print

Item 22226

Seaside Inn, Seal Harbor, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Great Harbor Maritime Museum Date: circa 1920 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print

Item 27106

Seaside House Napkin Ring, Islesboro. ca. 1900

Contributed by: Islesboro Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Islesboro Media: Wood, varnish

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

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

Promoting Rockland Through a Stereopticon, 1875

Frank Crockett and photographer J.P. Armbrust took stereo views of Rockland's downtown, industry, and notable homes in the 1870s as a way to promote tourism to the town.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… in a boarding house/inn, named at various times Seaside House, Seaside Hotel, The Islesborough and Johnson-by-the-Sea."

Site Page

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Seaside Hotel Commemorative Plate, ca. 1900Islesboro Historical Society After the Civil War, several factors combined that would change the face of…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"At Asticou, Chase Savage, who in 1870 had begun taking summer boarders, built the Asticou Inn. Soon other hotels followed in Northeast Harbor."