Maine of the Sea and Pine, by Nathan Haskell Dole and Irwin Leslin Gordon; cover design likely Decorative Designers, Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1928, printed by C. H. Simonds Company, first edition.
The Farnsworth Art Museum, in Rockland, Maine, is showing through March 21 “Transforming the Ordinary: Women in American Book Cover Design’’. It shows book covers from the 1890s-1930s — considered the heyday of book-cover design. The Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts movements heavily influenced how artists, many of them women, created these book covers.
The sign includes a reference to the area’s granite-quarrying industry. Lime and shipbuilding were also important.
Launching a commercial sailing ship in 1900 in Rockland
