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Map or Atlas

Map of the United States

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Description: Map reads: "The United States from the Latest Authorities". View of the states and territories.
Photograph

Marines Unloading Supplies

Date: 1945
Description: Marines use an International TD-18 Diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) to unload supplies and equipment from a ship. Many ships are in the water in the ba...
Photograph

Bonnet Shores Club

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Description: View of the Bonnet Shores Club atop a cliff overlooking the ocean.
Photograph

Coastal Rock Formations

Date: 1940
Description: View of Anemone Cave and crashing waves, surrounded by coastal rock formations.
Photograph

Coastal View of Waves and Rocks

Date: 1925
Description: View along rocky coastline with crashing waves. Buildings are along the shoreline in the distance. Caption reads: "View from Ye Headland Inn. Trefethen, Ma...
Photograph

Castle Rock

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Description: Elevated view of Castle Rock, located on the coast, with numerous people looking out over the water. Caption reads: "Castle Rock, Marblehead, Mass."
Photograph

Fishing Rocks

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Description: Elevated view across water toward large rocks from which people are fishing. Caption reads: "Fishing Rocks, Near Seaview, Wash."
Photograph

Mount Desert Rock

Date: 1918
Description: View across rocks toward the Mount Desert Rock granite lighthouse, established in 1830 and automated in 1977, located thirty miles out to sea on a treeless...
Photograph

Northern Lighthouse

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Description: View across rocky ground and grass toward the Northern Lighthouse and the nearby cottage. A covered walkway leads from the house up to the entrance of the ...
Photograph

Lover's Rock

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Description: Adults and children posing on and in front of Lover's Rock, which is partially submerged in water. Several sailboats are on the horizon. Caption reads: "Lo...
Photograph

Playing on the Beach at Low Tide

Date: 1930
Description: View along seashore toward people playing on the beach and wading into the water during low tide. Buildings line the hills in the background.
Photograph

The Beach

Date: 1920
Description: View along rocky shoreline towards adults and children on the seashore, nde wading in the water. In the distance are cottages and other buildings, possibly...
Photograph

Surf Fishing at Point State Park

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Description: View of men surf fishing along a rocky shoreline at Point State Park.
Drawing

Vacation Party on Seashore Cliff Stairwalk

Date: 1900
Description: View of a vacation party on a cliff stairway overlooking a seashore. Several men and women in formal dress walk down the stairway. Heavily retouched image.
Photograph

The Rocky Coast of Maine

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Description: View of the rocky coast of Maine as seen from a hillside. The rooftop of a dwelling is visible above a pine forest at right.
Photograph

A Rocky Coastline Toward The Sea

Date: 1937
Description: View looking from the rocky coastline toward a sailboat at sea.
Photograph

Rocky Coastline

Date: 1949
Description: View from the rocks of the coastline looking toward the tree-covered opposing shore.
Photograph

View From A Rocky Coastline

Date: 1949
Description: View of a lighthouse or dwelling from a rocky shore.
Photograph

Cliffs and Sea at Gap Head

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Description: A person rows a rowboat near the rocky cliffs at Gap Head.
Photograph

Lighthouse and Homes on Rocky Point

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Description: View along shoreline toward a lighthouse and homes standing on Rocky Point. There are several boats anchored at the shore and in the water.

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