Keywords: Lighthouse Brand
Item 14994
Lighthouse Brand potato bag, Presque Isle, ca. 1970
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1970 Location: Presque Isle Media: Paper
Item 98818
Springdale Camps, Stockton Springs, ca. 1925
Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1925 Location: Stockton Springs Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
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."
Exhibit
These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor
"… announced the company identity under its various “brands.” These 1909 printer’s proofs for its labels were found in the collections of the Lubec…"
