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| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph depicting a scene aboard a United States Lines passenger ship, featuring a man and a woman looking toward the ocean's horizon. |
| Date: | 11 1944 |
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| Description: | A cordon of GI's work together in water to move a submerged jeep to the beach of Leyte Island. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting New York Central Lines railway and the area of New England, deemed "America's Historic Summerland" in the poster. Featurin... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting California as a summer's destination to be reached by train. The poster features a woman in a vibrant yellow dress overloo... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting Alaska, and to get there by way of the the Northern Pacific Railway. Features the artwork of Sydney Laurence, with a depic... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting the S.S. Leviathan as the "World's Largest Ship." The poster depicts an elevated view of a large number of tourists... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Emergency label for Ocean View Early June Peas printed over an unused wax beans label. The label shows a bowl of cut wax beans on one side and a view of th... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | A view of a shoreline. Caption reads: "Part of the homestead plat and waterfront. Prudence Island." Along the left is a rock wall, and a house in the dista... |
| 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: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of Anemone Cave and crashing waves, surrounded by coastal rock formations. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a fisherman's shanty along the shoreline surrounded by rocks. At the shoreline is a man and numerous boats pulled ashore. Caption reads: "... |
| 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: | A view of Yorks Island Harbor and lobster fishing boats in a cove. Caption reads: "Lobster Fleet at Yorks Island Harbor, Isle au Haut, Me." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill looking down toward buildings in the hills along the coast. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View of developed beachfront, including roller-coaster, hotels, pier and seagulls. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Boats unloading at Standard Oil Co.'s pier, with a horse, wagon, and a number of men handling lumber and other building materials. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The bow of a large shipwrecked boat, the E.M. Sawyer, tipped up on a rocky shore. |
| 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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