Keywords: Coast steamers
Item 19204
Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1905 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard
Item 7635
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Media: Photogrpahic print
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
The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History
After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farewell appearance of Lillian Nordica, London, ca. 1913
"Later that year she was on a voyage when the steamer Tasman struck a reef of the coast of New Guinea."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication
"Soon the steamer Rockland was stopping in Southwest Harbor on its way to Machias. This was its only Mount Desert stop, and the village would become…"
