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Item 6190

Rosemary Cottage, Eliot, ca. 1888

Contributed by: Eliot Baha'i Archives Date: circa 1888 Location: Eliot Media: Photographic print

Item 108790

Rosemary Cottage, Eliot, ca. 1888

Contributed by: Eliot Baha'i Archives Date: circa 1888 Location: Eliot Media: Photographic print

Item 108791

Rosemary Cottage, Eliot, ca. 1888

Contributed by: Eliot Baha'i Archives Date: circa 1888 Location: Eliot Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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San Life: the Western Maine Sanatorium, 1928-1929

Merle Wadleigh of Portland, who was in his mid 20s, took and saved photographs that provide a glimpse into the life of a tuberculosis patient at the Western Maine Sanatorium in Hebron in 1928-1929.

Exhibit

Girls playing basketball, Naples, ca. 1930

Summer Camps

Maine is home to dozens of summer-long youth camps and untold numbers of day camps that take advantage of water, woods, and fresh air. While the children, counselors, and other staff come to Maine in the summer, the camps live on throughout the year and throughout the lives of many of the campers.

Exhibit

Luxurious Leisure

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.

Site Pages

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Walter Joyce with lobster, Swan's Island, ca. 1930

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Lobstering

"… measures the lobster industry has remained healthy along the Maine coast from Kittery north including Downeast Maine."

Site Page

Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 2 of 2

"He believed in healthy living and provided a free public skating rink to be maintained by him. Individual donations to the Library; to mill workers…"