Keywords: Tourists
Item 101520
Fishing party, Biddeford, ca. 1910
Who were these fishing enthusiasts?
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Biddeford Media: Glass Negative
Item 99264
Tourists Inn, filling station, Searsport, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1930 Location: Searsport Media: Glass Negative
Item 32912
Assessor's Record, 518 Washington Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Tourist Accessories Inc. Use: Filling station
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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
From the last decades of the nineteenth century through about the 1920s, vacationers were attracted to large resort hotels that promised a break from the noise, crowds, and pressures of an ever-urbanizing country.
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - MDI and the Fire of 1947
"… it is better known with its hotels and B&Bs as a tourist spot while Seal Harbor and Northeast Harbor are now home to the summer population and…"
Story
Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick
A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman
Story
A Florida Flatlander Finds Adventure in Maine (An Excerpt)
by Steve Hood
Humorous reminisces of former adventures in Maine from a Florida retiree
