Keywords: Summer residents
Item 105677
Summer dress, North Windham, ca. 1915
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1915
Location: Windham; Windham
Media: cotton, metal
This record contains 16 images.
Item 20979
Topsham Scenery - Summer Street, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1880 Location: Topsham Media: Stereopticon slide
Item 85200
Residence, Little Chebeague Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Mary C. Haskell Use: Summer Dwelling
Item 87185
Mitchell Residence, Long Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Ethel M. Mitchell Use: Summer Dwelling
Item 150287
Summer residence of Hon. Wm. Tudor Gardiner, Woolwich, 1928
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1928 Location: Woolwich Client: William Tudor Gardiner Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Item 150097
Joanne & Dick Warrens' summer house, Dedham, 1948
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1948
Location: Dedham
Client: Dick Warren
Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
This record contains 2 images.
Exhibit
Baseball often is called the National Pastime. For many people, baseball is encountered in the backyard and down the street, a game played by a few or the full contingent of a team.
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."
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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street
"The residences of Summer Street reflect Hampden’s 19th century wealth, for Hampden was a place of increasing industrialization."
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts
"The Dark Harbor summer residents enjoyed the pleasures of the Tarratine Club, offering golf in the 1890s, yachting in the 1920s and tennis in the…"
Story
"Mama sings 'get your hands up'": Maria's Diary June 2020
by Maria
Maria, 7 years old, records impressions of staying with her grandparents in Somesville in June 2020.
Story
A Story in a Stick
by Jim Moulton
A story about dowsing for a well in Bowdoin
