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This photo is from the James E. Perkins collection. It shows a group of what were probably summer visitors to Maine, enjoying Popham Beach, sometime in the 1920s.

This albumen print depicts a large vessel at anchor at the Quai de la Fraternite, port of Marseilles, France. Quai means "dock" or "embankment" in French. Source: www.mkpix.org/gallery2/main.php/v/seetheworld/europe/france/photos1800s. Used with permission.

This albumen print depicts Marseilles Harbor in the 1880s. Source: www.mkpix.org/gallery2/main.php/v/seetheworld/europe/france/photos1800s/. Used with permission.

Clara Pendleton Blanchard (1843-1931) was the daughter, wife, and mother of sea captains. She spent more than 40 years at sea.

Millicent Dow Nichols (1851-1937) was the wife of Captain Charles M. Nichols of Searsport.

This photo shows the family of Captain W. R. Gilkey (left). The woman is his wife, Georgia P. Sawyer Gilkey, and one of the little girls is Georgia Maria, who later married another Searsport captain, Phineas Banning Blanchard and sailed with him for many years.

Florence Ferguson Pendleton (1856-unknown) from Hampden, Maine, married Searsport captain James Nelson Pendleton in June of 1879 and went to sea with her husband.

Built by Captain Jeremiah Merithew in 1826, this house is now an exhibit building belonging to Penobscot Marine Museum.

The shop sign "L. W. Edwards" can be seen on the left side of the street in this early photo of Main Street in Searsport, Maine. Look above the first floor windows of the three story brick building. The sign is dark colored and sits just above the white band. Lucy Edwards had a millinery shop in town as far back as the Civil War era. She was trained to use the first telegraph in Searsport and would announce the news of the War from in front of her shop.