Keywords: racecar
Item 15783
Auto racing, Old Orchard Beach, ca. 1912
Contributed by: Stanley Museum Date: circa 1912 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Postcard
Item 35454
Preparing for the Thurlow Hill Climb Auto Race, Poland Spring, 1911
Contributed by: Stanley Museum Date: 1911 Location: Poland Spring Media: Photographic print
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."
