Keywords: Socony sign
Item 20748
Lawson's Store, Madawaska Lake, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Stockholm Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: T16 R4 WELS Media: Photographic print
Item 29017
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: 1934 Location: Lubec Media: Postcard
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."