Maine Memory Network

Steamboat Landing, Friendship, 1908

Contributed by: Friendship Museum Date: 1908 Location: Friendship Media: Photographic print

"Southport" steamship at Five Islands, Georgetown, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1915 Location: Georgetown Media: Glass Plate Negative

Lincoln County through the Eastern Eye

The Penobscot Marine Museum’s photography collections include nearly 50,000 glass plate negatives of images for "real photo" postcards produced by the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast. This exhibit features postcards from Lincoln County.

Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye

The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"A steamboat even docked at Steamboat Wharf on Contention Cove. Started in 1839, the village shipyard was located at the present day town landing."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Island Postmistresses

"… 1894 this old mail route was discontinued and a steamboat company contracted to bring the mail daily from Rockland to Old Harbor This is a much…"