Description: I. W. Livery on Main St., next to Brown's Store. This was taken about 1910 (No automobiles). It shows 2 adults, 3 teenagers, 3 children & 2 horses.
Description: Insert in the Bar Harbor Times announcing the opening of the new Bar Harbor Banking and Trust Company in Northeast Harbor. Featured articles include Julia Manchester, manager of the bank for many years. Photographs included.
Description: Wooden sign for Pine Bough Antiques, an antiques and rare book shop operated by Rick and JoAnne Fuerst from 1976-2018. The store was located at 117 Main Street, Northeast Harbor. This sign hung off the front of the building and is therefore double sided. Looking at the two sides, green painted frame on one side is more weathered than the other. The two-sided sign has green lettering and a green frame, and pine bough is painted in the upper left corner. [show more]
Description: Wooden sign for Wikhegan Old Books, a rare book shop operated by Rick and JoAnne Fuerst from 1976-2018. The store was located at 117 Main Street, Northeast Harbor. This sign was removed from the building before the business closed, when books were sold from Pine Bough Antiques The sign is two sided and appears to have had a brown frame, which no longer survives. Brown paint appears beneath where the frame would have been.
Description: Photos of the Town Livery on 22 Harborside Rd. This barn was built around 1820 and had rooms for employees and horses. Courtesy of Mr. Paul Kalenian. Only digital files.
Description: The Knowles Company of Northeast Harbor celebrates 100 Years in Real Estate business. 100 years ago Belle Smallidge worked at the library. She gave this up to form The Knowles Co. Same as Item 2216
Description: Handwritten ledger in buff suede (13" x 8.5" x 1.75") belonging to the Great Harbor Maritime Museum and given to the Northeast Harbor Library for safekeeping.
Description: Photograph taken from the area of the Samuel Gilpatrick Homestead looking toward the Rock End Hotel, near Gilpatrick Cove Northeast Harbor. In the foreground is Herman Savage's cottage, "The Wedge," designed by his architect brother, Fred L. Savage, in 1885. Two children stand on the side of the road, and an unidentified structure is visible beyond the hotel. In the distance, the northern shores of Great Cranberry Island can be seen. The Rock End Hotel was originally called the Revere House and was opened by Herman L. Savage in the summer of 1884. The Wedge was built by A. Torrey, a contractor from Southwest Harbor, in the winter of 1885-1886. The Rock End Hotel burned in March, 1942. The Wedge was purchased by the Roberts family and remodeled in 1944-45, following plans by Philadelphia architect Edmund Gilchrist. It remains a private residence today. [show more]
Description: 6 modern reproduction photographs showing Main Street, Northeast Harbor, circa 1935. Four views show the Municipal Building/Firehouse, and three show fire engines parked in front of the building, including the 1927 American LaFrance Ladder Truck "William S. Grant." Another photograph shows buses parked to the south of the municipal building, belong to Maine Transportation (?), a subsidiary of the Maine Central Railroad Company. Another photograph shows two buses belonging to the Boston & Maine Transportation Company parked behind Manchester Bros. Garage. Another photograph shows the steamer J.T. Morse landing at the steamboat wharf in Northeast Harbor [show more]
Description: Two fire engines parked in front of the Municipal Building, Northeast Harbor. A bus is parked the left of the Municipal Building, parked closer to Manchester Brothers' Garage. The truck on the left may be the Northeast Harbor Fire Company's 1926 Maxim Pumper, while that on the right is the ladder truck W.S. Grant, a 1927 American La France. This photograph was taken following the remodeling of the the Municipal Building, which was completed in 1934. [show more]
Description: Carlton Taylor standing in front of the Municipal Building, Northeast Harbor, with the vehicles of the Northeast Harbor Fire Company lined up.
Description: Folder 2: - Photograph album with 14 photographs of Harbourside Inn, Journey's End, and Grey Rock - Harbourside Inn menus, 1 handwritten and 1 typed, August 1971 - Newsletter, Knowles News, Spring 2005 Album: 1. Foyer fireplace, Harbourside Inn 2. Dining room 3. Cocktail bar: Natalie Damon and Mildred Gilley 4, Cocktail bar 5. Bedroom No. 6, Harbourside Cottage 6. Bedroom No. 1, Harbourside Cottage 7. Journey's End 8. Journey's End entrance 9. View from Journey's End 10. Journey's End porch 11. Bedroom, Journey's End 12. Grey Rock porch [show more]
Description: Carpenter shop at the dock was George Soulis's, then Lampson and Hodgdon's. The firm became E. A. Hodgdon, then H. E. Bucklin, now C. E. Bucklin
Description: Shows the Gilpatrick homestead (center), which later became the Tea Garden and then a summer house called Little Orchard. Brown & Gilley's hall out over Gilpatrick Cove (far left) and Cove Cottage (right).