Keywords: Seaside resorts
Item 78872
Seaside Inn, Seal Harbor, 1891
Contributed by: Northeast Harbor Library Date: 1891 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print
Item 27035
Seaside House Key Tag, Islesboro, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Islesboro Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Islesboro Media: Metal
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
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.
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts
"… in a boarding house/inn, named at various times Seaside House, Seaside Hotel, The Islesborough and Johnson-by-the-Sea."
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"Seaside Hotel Commemorative Plate, ca. 1900Islesboro Historical Society After the Civil War, several factors combined that would change the face of…"
