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| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Map from Drake Expedition, ca. 1585. |
| Date: | 1784 |
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| Description: | Plate 57. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Marines, killed in action, lie on stretchers covered with ponchos on the beach at Iwo Jima. Four marines attend to the dead. Tents, military boats, and an ... |
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| Description: | View across water toward the shore. People are rowing a boat in the foreground, and people are standing on a rock near the shore. In the background are hou... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View along top of rocky cliff toward a home on the right overlooking the ocean, with a large building further down the curving shoreline in the distance. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View along top of cliff toward cottages along a rocky coast. A large building is in the distance on the right. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across harbor filled with boats toward small wooden cottages along the far shoreline. A rock wall along the water's edge is in the foreground on the r... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill looking down toward buildings in the hills along the coast. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of village homes on the shores of the bay with docked fishing boats in the foreground. Caption reads, "Marblehead, Mass from Rockmere Point." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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... |
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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 ... |
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| Description: | View from water of houses along the beach at Dutch Village, each with small outbuildings and umbrellas set up outdoors. A set of stairs leads from the beac... |
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| Description: | View along shoreline toward people relaxing on a beach lined with vacation houses. Groups of men and women are standing or sitting, some wearing street clo... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of a resort shoreline lined with vacation houses. People walk along the beach, swim, and sit on the sand or on an elevated boardwalk near the water. |
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| Description: | Two children pose for a portrait while standing along a shoreline next to a row of cottages. Several rowboats are pulled ashore, and people are on the cott... |
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| Description: | Tents line a beach along the Atlantic Ocean. Foliage covers the foreground and several people and vehicles can be seen throughout the camp. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View toward bathing beach and seashore, with people sunbathing near umbrellas and wading in the water. Summer homes are in the background on the cliffs alo... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a pond in the foreground, and the seashore beyond. Houses are along the cliffs in the background. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View along beach toward sunbathers sitting and walking along the seashore. A line of automobiles are parked alongside the beach, separated from the sand by... |
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