Keywords: Popham Beach
Item 6503
Popham Beach, Phippsburg, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Popham Beach Media: Photoprint
Item 66463
Fort Popham, Phippsburg, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1935 Location: Phippsburg Media: Linen texture postcard
Exhibit
Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye
The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.
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.
Story
A first encounter with Bath and its wonderful history
by John Decker
Visiting the Maine Maritime Museum as part of a conference
