Keywords: Falls View Hotel
Item 79430
Falls View Hotel, Rumford, ca. 1914
Contributed by: Greater Rumford Area Historical Society Date: circa 1914 Location: Rumford Media: Postcard
Item 105314
Panoramic view of the city of Calais, St. Stephen and Milltown, New Brunswick, 1879
Contributed by: Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education Date: 1879 Location: Calais; St. Stephen; Milltown Media: Lithograph
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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."
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Maine Streets: The Postcard View
Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Ocean View Hotel
"Ocean View Hotel Ocean View Hotel porch, Swan's Island, ca. 1900Swan's Island Historical Society The Ocean View Hotel was located at 241…"
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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