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Item 72364

Dragger at Quarry Wharf, Swan's Island, ca. 1900

Dragger at Quarry Wharf, Swan's Island, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Swan's Island Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Swan's Island Media: Photographic print

Item 72365

Derrick at the Quarry Wharf, Swan's Island, ca. 1900

Derrick at the Quarry Wharf, Swan's Island, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Swan's Island Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Swan's Island Media: Photographic print

Item 72371

Quarry rail, Swan's Island, ca. 1900

Quarry rail, Swan's Island, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Swan's Island Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Swan's Island Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Cut in Williams Quarry, Rockland, ca. 1875

Promoting Rockland Through a Stereopticon, 1875

Frank Crockett and photographer J.P. Armbrust took stereo views of Rockland's downtown, industry, and notable homes in the 1870s as a way to promote tourism to the town.

Exhibit

Rockefeller Drive, Mt. Desert Island, ca. 1935

Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

Exhibit

Riverside Hotel, at Popham Beach, Phippsburg, ca. 1910

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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Quarry rails from the quarry dock to the quarry, Swan's Island, ca. 1900

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Baird's Quarry history

"Quarry rails from the quarry dock to the quarry, Swan's Island, ca. 1900Swan's Island Historical Society The pinkish buff granite from it was medium…"

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Laura Sprague in Atlantic store, Swan's Island, ca. 1940

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

"… Swan’s Island at seven in the morning from the Quarry Wharf in Minturn, stopped at nearby Frenchboro, then McKinley (now known as Bass Harbor, on…"

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Governor Bodwell Steamboat, Swan's Island, ca. 1920

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"The largest of these, the Baird's Quarry in Minturn, opened in 1890. Quarry work followed fishing as the second largest form of employment and source…"