Saco Bay | McArthur Public Library

0082a - Negative, Glass Plate

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

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0082b - Negative, Glass Plate

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

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0707 - Print, Photographic

Navigation marker on Stage Island, circa 1900. Stage Island gets its name from its early use by fishermen to dry fish for export to Spain and the West Indies. The fish were spread to dry on wooden racks called stages. This stone tower, about 60 ft. high, was built by the U.S. government in 1825 to mark the deep water passage for sailors into Biddeford Pool. During the building of the tower, a faulty foundation caused the stones to collapse and on...

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0710 - Print, Photographic

Samuel de Champlain (1574-1635). The first explorer to make a map of lower Biddeford, and to study and describe the native inhabitants, the Almouchiquois. The cornfields that Champlain saw here were the first he had found in his exploring and he wrote careful description of how the locals planted their corn and also how they grew beans, squash, pumpkin, and tobacco. He is the 2nd white man to have visited Biddeford in summer, the first being C...

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0711 - Print, Photographic

Map drawn by Samuel Champlain during his four days spent here in July 1605. The cornfields he found here were the first he had seen as he traveled south down the Atlantic coastline. Contemporary scholarship tells us this was an important dividing line, the northern-most locale for native populations engaged in domestic agriculture rather than hunting/gathering for survival. Samuel Champlain's 1605 pictorial map of Saco Bay and the mouth of the ...

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0712 - Print, Photographic

Wood Island lighthouse and keeper's house, Biddeford Pool, about 1870-1880. The fog warning bell is visible on the extreme right. The lighthouse was first built in 1808 when Thomas Jefferson was president. It was rebuilt in 1869. The binder contains the following note dated 3-12-1948, "Mrs. Mary Callahan (age 82) says the figures on the balcony outside the light are Captain and Mrs. Albert Norwood, her mother and father."

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0712a - Print, Photographic

Wood Island lighthouse, Biddeford Pool, circa 1900. Wood Island Lighthouse was built in 1808, when Thomas Jefferson was president, and rebuilt in 1869. They pyramid-shaped structure at the right housed the fog warning machinery. The keeper's dwelling is at the left.

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0768 - Print, Photographic

[Circa 1955 copy negative of 1880 lithograph "Balloon View of Saco Bay" by C.H. Woodman & Co.]

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0769 - Print, Photographic

[Detail view; circa 1955 copy negative of 1880 lithograph "Balloon View of Saco Bay" by C.H. Woodman & Co.]

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0792 - Print, Photographic

Regatta near the Pier, Old Orchar Beach, circa 1910. The exact date is not known, but the great bare strip behind the beach shows that the picture was taken after 1907, the year of the great Old Orchard fire.

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0795 - Print, Photographic

Old Orchard Street and the Pier, Old Orchard Beach, circa 1910. A large grandstand is set up along the beach facing the ocean for an unknown event on the beach. The crowds pack the streets and sailboats and launches pack the water around the beach and pier. Automobiles and buggies line the streets and the restaurants, shops, and studios vie for attention and business. [Negative is a copy negative the library had made.]

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0814 - Print, Photographic

Stage Island and navigation marker as seen from Biddeford Pool, circa 1910.

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0819 - Print, Photographic

Sailing off Hill's Beach, Biddeford, circa 1910. The long building in the background is Callahan's, which was torn down in 1954.

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2348 - Print, Photographic

Power launch owned by John King in Saco Bay circa 1910. Mr. King identified in image 2349 as being from New York, but no other information known about him.

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2665 - Print, Photographic

Elevated view of Saco Bay houses and boats, circa 1900. Image appears to be a print made from a copy negative, the location or origin of the original is unknown.

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3158 - Print, Photographic

Elevated view of homes, buildings and ships on Saco Bay during winter, circa 1900. Image appears to be a print made from a copy negative, other information is unknown.

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3159 - Print, Photographic

Five-masted schooner, thought to be anchored in Saco Bay, circa 1900. Two dinghys are visible in foreground, and some large outbuildings. Image appears to be a print made from a copy negative, location of original is unknown.

Record Type: Photo