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<\/a><\/p>\nThe artist tries to show all the buildings on the island – even the windows and doors.<\/p>\n
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Peaks Island is just off the city of Portland Maine – a short ferry ride then and now. The Forest City steamboat, filled with passengers is headed back to the city. It looks to be disproportionately large – artistic license\u2026<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The text at the bottom is a key to prominent sites – such as the Forrest City\u2019s dock — No. 18.<\/p>\n The island was a vacationland for Mainers – look at the roller coaster, skating rink and theatre (Nos. 1,2,3).<\/p>\n And what is that large tower? A lookout to see the ships in Casco Bay? <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Off in the distance is a four masted schooner. These large sailing vessels were the freighters of that time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here\u2019s the Peak\u2019s Island Maine bird\u2019s-eye view from 1886. A nice example of this genre, though Peak\u2019s Island…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","content-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"