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Description
A large crowd gathers on Squirrel Island for the annual Fete Week Field Day celebrations held in late August.
A two-masted schooner can be seen sailing into Boothbay Harbor.
On a flagpole from the building in the rear flies a 45-star flag (dating from the decade of 1898-1908).
At right is the Squirrel Island Chapel, built in 1879 and still in use.
About This Item
- Title: Squirrel Island Gathering, ca. 1905
- Creator: McDougall & Keefe
- Creation Date: circa 1905
- Subject Date: circa 1905
- Location: Squirrel Island, Southport, Lincoln County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 8.5 cm x 13.5 cm
- Local Code: PC1, #4
- Collection: Raymond W. Stanley Collection
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Crowds--Maine--Southport--Squirrell Island
- Festivals and fairs--Maine--Southport--Squirrel Island
- Fete Week (Southport, Squirrel Island, Me.)--Photographs
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