[Sea Wall at Bald Head Cliff, York, Maine]
Creation: 1901
Regular trains, overnight steamship service, and seaside hotels lured middle-class tourists from Boston, Philadelphia and New York to spend summertime in this Southern Maine coastal town as early as 1875. Besides walking cliff paths and “rusticating,” tourists explored historic towns popularized by local author Sarah Orne Jewett in her novels of Maine.
Title
[Sea Wall at Bald Head Cliff, York, Maine]
Date
Creation: 1901
Subject
Description
Regular trains, overnight steamship service, and seaside hotels lured middle-class tourists from Boston, Philadelphia and New York to spend summertime in this Southern Maine coastal town as early as 1875. Besides walking cliff paths and “rusticating,” tourists explored historic towns popularized by local author Sarah Orne Jewett in her novels of Maine.
Rights
Public Domain
Format
Photochroms
Source
MSS0827, Howard Gottlieb and William H. Jackson Collection
Files
Citation
“[Sea Wall at Bald Head Cliff, York, Maine],” Gallery, accessed August 5, 2026, https://gallery.library.vanderbilt.edu/items/show/821.