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Item 8787

In service to Old Orchard Beach, 1939

In service to Old Orchard Beach, 1939

Contributed by: Seashore Trolley Museum Date: 1939 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Photoprint

Item 18518

Sightseers, coast of Maine, ca. 1900

Sightseers, coast of Maine, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1900 Media: Cyanotype

Item 34019

Water pump house, Lubec, ca. 1905, ca. 1905

Water pump house, Lubec, ca. 1905, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Lubec Memorial Library Date: circa 1905 Location: Lubec Media: Photograph on card

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Rockefeller Drive, Mt. Desert Island, ca. 1935

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

Northport Hotel, ca. 1900

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

Brunswick-Topsham pedestrian bridge, ca. 1920

The Swinging Bridge: Walking Across the Androscoggin

Built in 1892 to entice workers at the Cabot Manufacturing Corporation in Brunswick to move to newly built housing in Topsham, the Androscoggin Pedestrian "Swinging" Bridge or Le Petit Pont quickly became important to many people traveling between the two communities.