From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
LB2010.9.120251
The Broadway Inn in Machias, Maine was orignally a farmhouse, a rambling wooden structure with multiple dormers and a large ell connecting it to a barn. This view is very similar to that shown in LB2010.9.120249, though made at an earlier time. Here, people and cars are mostly absent from the scene. The rustic wooden bench sitting next to the driveway is not present in the other photo; the grass looks shaggy and unmowed. The paint on the elm trunks has been recently applied; in the later photo, it's faded somewhat. (White or light-colored paint protects tree trunks from wide temperature fluctuations. It helps reduce bark cracking, and thus routes of entry for disease and pests. Dutch elm disease was newly identified in the U.S. around the time this photo was taken.) In both cases, it's summer, as trees are covered in foliage.
