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[Passaconaway Inn, York, Me.] – Antique Print

[Passaconaway Inn, York, Me.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Passaconaway Inn, York, Me.], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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A window into the past: [Passaconaway Inn, York, Me.], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The Passaconaway Inn in York, Maine, is the subject here, a hotel set near the water in a coastal town that drew summer visitors in the early 1900s. The Detroit Publishing Company, which sent photographers across the United States and sold views of scenic places and resorts, made this glass-plate negative, and its catalog number is recorded on the plate. Resort hotels like this one were a central part of the seaside tourism boom of that period, when rail travel brought city families to the Maine coast for the summer. The picture pairs a waterfront with a hotel, so it shows both the working shoreline and the leisure trade that grew up alongside it.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 1559" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033265. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsWaterfronts. Hotels.United States--Maine--York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66558

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