Keywords: Frenchman Bay
Item 66250
Frenchman Bay, Mount Desert Island, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1935 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Linen texture postcard
Item 66610
View of Frenchman's Bay, Mount Desert Island, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1935 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Linen texture postcard
Exhibit
From the last decades of the nineteenth century through about the 1920s, vacationers were attracted to large resort hotels that promised a break from the noise, crowds, and pressures of an ever-urbanizing country.
Exhibit
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.
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings
"… beads and bone flutes found by archaeologists on Frenchman Bay. They also had, and continue to have, a rich oral tradition that explained the world…"
