Keywords: cottage industry
Item 31639
Thurston and Bayley Company, Scarborough, 1948
Contributed by: Bruce Thurlow through Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: 1948 Location: Scarborough Media: Photographic print
Item 71723
The Samoset Cottage, Rockland, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1938 Location: Rockland Media: Linen texture postcard
Item 151631
Fitzgerald house, Brighton, VT, 1888
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1888 Location: Brighton Client: George H. Fitzgerald Architect: John Calvin Stevens
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
Washington County Through Eastern's Eye
Images taken by itinerant photographers for Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company, a real photo postcard company, provide a unique look at industry, commerce, recreation, tourism, and the communities of Washington County in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Site Page
Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries
"Historically, the cottage industries were common in areas where a large percentage of local population was engaged in seasonal work, because families…"
Site Page
"… even with winter homes "in town" and then summer cottages out at the Pool or towards Kennebunkport. Thursday Club program, Biddeford…"
Story
Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey
Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics
