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Historical Items

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Item 80430

Steamboat Landing, Friendship, 1908

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

Item 92245

Steamboats Wiwurna, Nahanada, Samoset, and Winter Harbor in Boothbay Harbor, 1890

Contributed by: Boothbay Region Historical Society Date: 1890 Location: Boothbay Harbor Media: Photographic print

Item 108702

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

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

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

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.

Exhibit

Washington County Through Eastern's Eye

Images taken by itinerant photographers for Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company, a real photo postcard company, provide a unique look at industry, commerce, recreation, tourism, and the communities of Washington County in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Exhibit

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.

Site Pages

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Historic Hallowell - Transportation

"The Hallowell Eastern Steamboat Wharf was located at the bulkhead, which is a dividing wall between compartments in a ship."

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Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"… The New York Times: “In a thick fog the Eastern Steamboat Company’s steamer Cumberland and the United Fruit Company’s steamer Admiral Farragut were…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"In 1853 they built the steamship wharf at the point and talked the Eastern Steamship Company into establishing service."