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Historical Items

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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 Media: Phototransparency

Item 7018

Lisbon Street before automobiles ca. 1890

Contributed by: Lewiston Public Library Date: circa 1890 Location: Lewiston Media: Phototransparency

Online Exhibits

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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 Pages

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John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 2 of 2

"… in Bangor, the first electric street railroad, a horseless carriage, and others. He speculated in the second scrapbook about things he might live…"