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Item 46387

Gift Shop, Lubec, ca. 1970, ca. 1970

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1970 Location: Lubec Media: Postcard

Item 99269

Buck Harbor Gift Shop, South Brooksville, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1940 Location: Brooksville Media: Glass Negative

Item 71589

Snowberry Park, Pine Point, ca. 1938

Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1938 Location: Scarborough Media: Linen texture postcard

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Gifts From Gluskabe: Maine Indian Artforms

According to legend, the Great Spirit created Gluskabe, who shaped the world of the Native People of Maine, and taught them how to use and respect the land and the resources around them. This exhibit celebrates the gifts of Gluskabe with Maine Indian art works from the early nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries.

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

Wadsworth-Longfellow House, Congress Street, Portland, ca. 1890

Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland

The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… the end of the street the widely acclaimed Peg's Gift Shop, operated by the much loved Nellie Earle."

Site Page

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… grange hall, two stores, churches, a blacksmith's shop, a schoolhouse, a boarding house and two wharves, where, for a time, loads of coal and pulp…"

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Seaside House Key Tag, Islesboro, ca. 1900

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… continue and some become memories: Peg’s Gift Shop, Blue Heron Restaurant, The Pub, Big Tree Boating, The Dark Harbor Shop Ice Cream Race, July 4th…"