Keywords: horseless carriage
Item 35872
Main Street, Presque Isle, ca. 1905
Contributed by: David Gallagher through Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library Date: circa 1905 Location: Presque Isle Media: Postcard
Item 7019
Lisbon Street, Lewiston, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Lewiston Public Library Date: circa 1890 Location: Lewiston; Lewiston Media: Phototransparency
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."
Site Page
"… in Bangor, the first electric street railroad, a horseless carriage, and others. He speculated in the second scrapbook about things he might live…"
