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Stereoview INTERNATIONAL RAILROAD CELEBRATION, VANCEBORO, MAINE.

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Stereoview   INTERNATIONAL RAILROAD CELEBRATION, VANCEBORO, MAINE.
2 "Views of Bangor and Vicinity" by A. K. Dole, published by C. L. Marston, Bangor. a) This is the 1871 opening of the "Grand International Railroad" at the Maine-Canada border. This important line connected Maine with the Maritime Provinces, and continued from Portland to New York and West to San Francisco. President Grant attended this Vanceboro celebration. Some of the figures around the cannon may be Canadian government and military. Slightly light, with light soil. [2+] b) We see a military assembly beside the Railroad station, with the huge tent at the right. Slightly light. [2+]