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[Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club, Boothbay, Maine] – Antique Wall Art

[Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club, Boothbay, Maine], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
[Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club, Boothbay, Maine], [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with [Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club, Boothbay, Maine], a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club, Boothbay, Maine]

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Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club, in Boothbay on Maine's midcoast, is the subject of this view of a working waterfront where sailing and summer visitors shared the shoreline. The caption card records no date, but yacht clubs along this coast generally grew up alongside the summer colonies and resort hotels that drew wealthy families to the harbor from the late 1800s onward. The sheltered anchorage made Boothbay Harbor a natural base for pleasure boats, so the club reflects how recreational sailing shaped village life. The boats and buildings in the frame are the best clues to when it was taken.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsWittemann Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Maine--Boothbay; Yacht clubs; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan983 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-140736

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