GUSN-188138
The postcard features the boardwalk, also called a promenade walk, shore and surrounding homes at York Beach, Maine. Men and women walk in pairs and small groups. Many women also carry parasols. The beach is wide and has patches of sand grass.
beaches
boardwalks
promenades (walkways)
recreation
summer (season)
postcard albums
photographs
picture postcards
postcards
1 postcard
PC001
General photographic collection
1984
PC001.03.01.TMP.004
Gift
York Beach (York county, Maine)
Thomson & Thomson (Boston, Mass.) (Publisher)
postcard albums
photographs
picture postcards
postcards
W.H.Bunting, The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England (Boston: Historic New England, 2006) pg.28-29.
Original in Postcards - Maine - York
Item
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