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John Martin: Expert Observer - Picnic, Fort Point Light, and Fort Pownal, 1865

"… (1823-1904) drew a full-page illustration of Excursion Wharf, Fort Pownal, Fort Point Light in Stockton Springs, and a picnic that he and his wife…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 3, pages 38-56

"… Steamer, gun boat Mahoning Congressional excursion to Bangor Bangor McClellan Club Ideal homestead Southern life Slavery Frank Davis Wheelwright &…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Revenue gunboat "Mahoning," Bangor, 1864

"He said it brought a group of Congressmen on an excursion to Bangor and the Maine coast. Martin described the boat and its guns."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 195-277

"… Prince business accounts, an eventful excursion to Belfast aboard an iron propellor steamer, and the Bangor Quartet Club."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Steamer "Bangor," 1847

"… of Bangor area residents who went on a one-day excursion aboard the new iron bottom propeller steamer Bangor from Bangor to Belfast."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - James Emery cottage, Bucksport, 1867

"… 1867, and pasted it into the Scrap Book. On an excursion to Bucksport, Martin wrote, "I halted at the head of the ferry and viewed the village and…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators on the Rise

"… Bring half-worn winter garments, with boots ditto, to be prepared for tramping and excursions. -Eliza Brown Chase, 1884 Continue to Inns"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrapbook 1: 1885-1899, Katahdin Iron Works, Silver Lake Hotel

"… Katahdin Iron Works, Silver Lake Hotel, steamship excursions, newspaper clippings   Part 2, pages 22-71 Dancing, family history, Hampden, first…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative

"… Captain John Smith voyaged to Monhegan on fishing excursions some nine years later, he created a map indicating the area on the Georges River as an…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrap & Sketch Book 2: 1864-1866

"… performance, loss of manners   Part 7, pages 114-134 Soldiers, Fort Point excursion, women's fashion, behavior; crime, dance X"

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Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"… like sailing expeditions, music, and picnic excursions. Guests who wanted to build summer cottages of their own began buying plots of land from…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… as well as sharing findings from collecting excursions, remained popular among Victorian-era middle and upper classes."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal

"… business misfortunes, Quartet Club, steamboat excursion   Part 5, pages 278-361 Cholera epidemic, Alonzo Raynes, Bangorites and Gold Rush…"

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… business parties as well as Waterman’s Annual Excursions, sponsored by the J. Waterman Company of Bangor, where boys of all ages were invited to…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… with a large load of living freight – the first excursion party that had crossed the bridge. The bridge has been pronounced, by those capable of…"