Maine Memory Network

Construction, Navy yawl, Mount Desert, ca. 1942

Contributed by: Great Harbor Maritime Museum Date: circa 1942 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print

Navy training yawl launch, Mount Desert, ca. 1942

Contributed by: Great Harbor Maritime Museum Date: circa 1942 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print

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.

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."