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Historical Items

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Item 21114

Navy Yawl, Mt. Desert, ca. 1943

Contributed by: Great Harbor Maritime Museum Date: circa 1943 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print

Item 21115

Construction, Navy yawl, Mount Desert, ca. 1942

Contributed by: Great Harbor Maritime Museum Date: circa 1942 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print

Item 21116

Navy training yawl launch, Mount Desert, ca. 1942

Contributed by: Great Harbor Maritime Museum Date: circa 1942 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Designing Acadia

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.

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."