Keywords: Glen Cove
Item 71724
Glen Cove Motor Court, near Rockland and Camden, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1938 Location: Rockport Media: Linen texture postcard
Item 79551
First Holly Inn, Christmas Cove, 1906
Contributed by: South Bristol Historical Society Date: 1904–1907 Location: South Bristol Media: Postcard
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."