Maine: Historical sense-of-place

Maine has a long history of sharing its sense of place. The Passenger Department of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company published this introduction to In the Maine Woods in 1900.


In the Maine Woods By Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company

Google books tries to make it easy for one to add this image to this blog. Select the portion of the page and then post to Blogger. Unfortunately, for this selection, the title and author link may push the link over the limit to transfer to Blogger with no intervention. I had to copy the link and create the page by hand. In pasting the url in the "Edit Html" tab, I discovered that the alt tag can also be improved by users to indicate the content of the image.

When I published the post, I discovered that some of the Blogger tools cover part of the image. I didn't find a parameters in the code to adjust the size of the image to prevent this but when I viewed the post in the "Compose" tab, it provided image resizing controls. It makes the text harder to read but that is not much of a problem because the original text is just a click away!

<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=tHE3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1&
ci=49,108,886,936&source=bookclip"><img src="http://books.google.com/books?id=tHE3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1&img=1&
zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U3arR5TWas4um9dD5GOsqyUvg6r6g&
ci=49%2C108%2C886%2C936&edge=1" border="0" alt="Text not available"/></a>
<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=tHE3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1&ci=49,108,886,936&
source=bookclip">In the Maine Woods By Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company</a>

I tried to add this clip to our iTeam wiki but Wetpaint doesn't yet support this form of insert.

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