Keywords: Sightseers
Item 8787
In service to Old Orchard Beach, 1939
Contributed by: Seashore Trolley Museum Date: 1939 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Photoprint
Item 18518
Sightseers, coast of Maine, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1900 Media: Cyanotype
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.
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."