Keywords: camp brochure
Item 9969
Bungalow at Katharine Ridgeway Camp, Jefferson, 1934
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1934 Location: Jefferson Media: Brochure
Item 80001
Mt. Kineo Hotel brochure, Moosehead Lake, 1875
Contributed by: Moosehead Historical Society Date: 1875 Location: Kineo Media: Brochure
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Maine is home to dozens of summer-long youth camps and untold numbers of day camps that take advantage of water, woods, and fresh air. While the children, counselors, and other staff come to Maine in the summer, the camps live on throughout the year and throughout the lives of many of the campers.
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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."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2
"… scenery, and a developing market of tourist brochures and guidebooks provided instructions to “rusticators” on what to do once they got there."
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