Keywords: Owl's Head (Rockland, Me.)
Item 13904
Stereoscopic view, Owl's Head, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Rockland Media: Stereograph
Item 100117
The Harbor from Main Street, Rockland, ca. 1875
Contributed by: Rockland Historical Society Date: circa 1875 Location: Rockland Media: Stereograph
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."
