Keywords: Wildflowers
Item 102470
Contributed by: Stanley Museum on deposit at Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Media: Lantern slide, hand colored
Item 33997
Rusticators, Blue Hill, 1907, 1907
Contributed by: Blue Hill Public Library Date: 1907 Location: Blue Hill Media: Photographic print
Item 151262
Sexton residence, Sedgwick, 1999-2000
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1999–2000 Location: Sedgwick Client: Dorrance Sexton, Architect: Landscape Design Associates
Item 151223
Dwight residence, Bar Harbor, 1982
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1982 Location: Bar Harbor Client: George Dwight, Architect: Patrick Chasse; The Maine Designer/Craftsman
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."
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators
"… tour in a buckboard? Stroll a field and pick wildflowers? Some combination of these? Richards family, ca."
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
