Keywords: Consolidated Steamship Co.
Item 60540
Steamship "Huron," Lubec, ca. 1907, ca. 1907
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1907 Location: Lubec Media: Postcard
Item 33275
Waterfront view Lubec, ca. 1901
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1901 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic 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
Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye
The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.
Site Page
"… captained by William Allen, became the first steamship to carry passengers from Boston to Lubec, arriving to great fanfare."
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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview
"The flood of workers, as many as 3,000 for the Texas Steamship yard and 1,400 for BIW, brought Bath’s daytime population to an estimated 20,000, a…"
