Keywords: sightseeing
Item 104178
Uncle Zeke's sightseeing tour, Millinocket, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Millinocket Media: Photographic print
Item 13906
Railroad flyer for Farmers' and Home-Makers' Week, 1928
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1928 Location: Bangor; Orono Media: Ink on paper
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
History in Motion: The Era of the Electric Railways
Street railways, whether horse-drawn or electric, required the building of trestles and tracks. The new form of transportation aided industry, workers, vacationers, and other travelers.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters
"… as guides to take summer people in canoes for sightseeing, fishing, or hunting including Penobscots Frank “Big Thunder” Loring, Joe Francis…"
Site Page
Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation
"Jones began his business of flying sightseeing passengers in his biplanes in 1919, and by 1928 he was recognized as one of the pioneers in the…"
Story
A first encounter with Bath and its wonderful history
by John Decker
Visiting the Maine Maritime Museum as part of a conference