Title

Our Penobscot River Heritage

Creator

Gordon Clapp Travel Services (Bangor, Me.)

Monaghan, Joanne

Date

1981

Description

We will have to use our imaginations to recall what the river looked like before the advent of the camera, but the entrance of the Penobscot into modern times has been wonderfully chronicled for us by 19th Century photographers. What you see here is a sampling of how the coming of "civilization" in the 18th Century developed the river into a literal "street of gold" in the 19th. In one century the Penobscot River opened central Maine into its "Golden Era." More hustle and bustle, more money, more "firsts," more relics and more history mark this single century on the river than all of the others before or since. It's hard to believe that the quiet waterfront we see today is the same as the one portrayed in these pictures.

Subject

Penobscot River (Me.)--History--19th Century

Penobscot River (Me.)--Photographs

Type

Illustrated works

Photobooks

Spatial Coverage

Bangor (Me.)

Temporal Coverage

Nineteen eighties

Twentieth century

Language

English

Is Part Of

Bangor Public Library Special Collections

Rights