Keywords: riders
Item 104729
Do you know who this and where it was taken?
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1930 Media: Glass Negative
Item 31499
Riders on horseback at Skyline Farm, ca. 1960
Contributed by: Sally Semmes through Skyline Farm Date: circa 1960 Location: North Yarmouth Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.
Exhibit
Rum, Riot, and Reform - A Call to Temperance
"… 1-32 This report of an incident in Falmouth, by riders of the stage between Augusta and Portland, suggests the rather callous regard many citizens…"
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Main Street, Lincoln, ca. 1890
"… Description Horse and buggy complete with rider shaded by an umbrella shown on Main Street, Lincoln, prior to paved roads; however, utility poles…"
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Stimpson House
"… Historical Society Captain John Bradford Rider, an artillery officer in the Revolution, built many of the houses for General Knox."
