Keywords: Steamer #3
Item 13603
Steamer Mabel, Nickerson Lake, 1894
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1894 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Item 74234
1904 Stanley Steamer, Falmouth, ca. 1904
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1904 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
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
The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History
After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 3, pages 38-56
"… Tent Penobscot County Democratic Convention Steamer, gun boat Mahoning Congressional excursion to Bangor Bangor McClellan Club Ideal homestead…"
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Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3
"mainland at Lubec, Maine. Ferry steamers navigated this narrow but treacherous arm of the sea beginning in 1882, later supplemented by auto scows…"
