Related Records

1. 0041 - Print, Photographic

   Crowds of onlookers watch President Taft enter the Abenakee Club during his visit to Biddeford Pool on July 28, 1910.

   Record Type: Photo

   
2. 0041a - Negative, Glass Plate

   Crowds of onlookers loiter about the yard as President William H. Taft visited the Abenakee Club, Biddeford Pool, on July 28, 1910. The President's chauffeur looks straight into the camera, the rare view of any African American (male or female) in Biddeford or Biddeford Pool at the turn of the century.

   Record Type: Photo

   
3. 0042 - Print, Photographic

   President Taft visiting Biddeford Pool, July 28, 1910. The President can be seen getting out of an automobile, in the rear of the house known as "Stonecliffe" where he was welcomed.

   Record Type: Photo

   
4. 0042a - Print, Photographic

   Crowds surround President Taft's car at Stonecliffe cottage, Biddeford Pool, July 28, 1910. President Taft is in a dark jacket, light colored cap and bushy mustache beside the parked open-air automobile in the middle of the crowd.

   Record Type: Photo

   
5. 0043 - Print, Photographic

   President Taft, Major Archibald Butts as they are greeted by the people of Biddeford Pool, July 28, 1910. Presidential yacht "Mayflower" is visible in the far distance. Major Butts died on the "Titanic" less than 2 years later.

   Record Type: Photo

   
6. 0044 - Print, Photographic

   A crowd of spectators stands around President Taft's car, waiting for him to appear at Stonecliffe cottage, Biddeford Pool, July 28, 1910. (Note on back also says July 27, so date uncertain.)

   Record Type: Photo

   
7. 0045 - Print, Photographic

   Gawkers line the shore, waiting for President Taft to land at Biddeford Pool, July 28, 1910. The President is coming ashore in the large launch in the center.

   Record Type: Photo

   
8. 0051 - Print, Photographic

   Biddeford Pool, circa 1910. As seen from the Ocean View Hotel.

   Record Type: Photo

   
9. 0054 - Print, Photographic

   Biddeford Pool golfer caricatured by artist and Biddeford Pool summer resident James Montgomery Flagg, drawn summer of 1911. Of the eleven caricatures, only one is identified by proper name, Johnny Gillette, of the Chicago Gillettes, who owned the Gillette shaving company.

   Record Type: Photo

   
10. 0054a - Negative, Glass Plate

    Biddeford Pool golf caricatures by artist and Biddeford Pool summer resident James Montgomery Flagg, drawn summer of 1911. The only men of the eleven in the drawing identified by proper name is Johnny Gillette, of Chicago, whose family owned the famous Gillette shaving company.

    Record Type: Photo

    
11. 0055 - Print, Photographic

    Nautical map of the Maine coast, with inserted view of the Sea View Inn at Biddeford Pool, with latitude and longitude so that cruising yachtsmen could easily locate the Pool and the Inn. Created circa 1910 by Robert H. Gay, probably sold as a postcard by him as well.

    Record Type: Photo

    
12. 0055a - Negative, Glass Plate

    Nautical map of the Maine coast, with inserted view of the Sea View Inn at Biddeford Pool, with latitude and longitude so that cruising yachtsmen could easily locate the Pool and the Inn. Created circa 1910 by Robert H. Gay, probably sold as a postcard by him as well.

    Record Type: Photo

    
13. 0076 - Print, Photographic

    Biddeford Pool, 1916. Coasting vessel, at anchor off Pool.

    Record Type: Photo

    
14. 0081c - Negative, Glass Plate

    Rear view during construction of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church at Biddeford Pool, 1915-1916.

    Record Type: Photo

    
15. 0082a - Negative, Glass Plate

    Schooner "Abana" from St. John in the Gut, Biddeford Pool, 1910.

    Record Type: Photo

    
16. 0082b - Negative, Glass Plate

    Schooner "Abana" and fishing craft in the Gut, Biddeford Pool, 1910.

    Record Type: Photo

    
17. 0083 - Negative, Glass Plate

    View from Ocean View Hotel towards Seaview Hotel, Biddeford Pool, circa 1908. Photo overlaps with image 84a to form a panorama.

    Record Type: Photo

    
18. 0084a - Negative, Glass Plate

    Looking from Ocean View Hotel toward Wood Island, Biddeford Pool, circa 1908. Print overlaps with image #83 to form panorama.

    Record Type: Photo

    
19. 0084b - Negative, Glass Plate

    South Point at Biddeford Pool, showing the Pier, circa 1910.

    Record Type: Photo

    
20. 0097 - Negative, Glass Plate

    Tanner's Hotel at Fortunes Rocks, 1911. "Blighty" cottage on left moved to this site from right side of large inn - it was original summer cottage of Warren Bryant.

    Record Type: Photo