Description: Dance card with pencil attached and rippled edges. Inside has the order of each song and a space for someone to reserve a dance. Of the eighteen dances, six have been reserved on this card. Dance was put on by the Mt. Desert Fire Company.
Rook Card co. Parker Brothers Inc. Selling Agents Salem, Mass., New York, London
Date:
1900 - 1920 c
Description: Box set of Rook game combinations. Box includes cards with a crow illustration on back and numbers on face. Included is an instruction pamphlet with the games Dixie, Tuxedo, Solitaires and more. Box features illustration of a crow on a tree branch holding a hand of cards. Text reads: "Famous Home game ROOK reg. U.S. patent office. Combination game. Rook-Dixie Rook Solitaires, Tuxedo. The Game of Games. rook card co. Parker Brothers Inc. Selling Agents. Salem, Mass., New York, London" [show more]
Description: Beige card with red illustration and black text. Advertisement for the roller skating rink in Bar Harbor. Illustration depicts two people in floppy hats holding onto rope. Top text in red reads: "The Sea! The Sea! The Beautiful, See?" Bottom black text reads: "Bar Harbor Roller Skating Rink, 'Not the Tent' Prices Reduced."
Description: Card Game called "Peter Coddle's Trip to New York" in a blue box with illustration of man with an umbrella and carpet bag buying tickets at a kiosk window. Type on front of box reads: "Peter Coddle's Trip to New York. Milton Bradley CO. Springfield Mass. 4367"
Description: Card game created by the E.E. Fairchild Corporation in Rochester, New York. Called "Game of Cities" and includes cards with different cities on them.
The Village Improvement Societiesof Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor, Northeast, and Southeast Harbor1915
Date:
1915
Place:
Mount Desert Island
Description: Guide to Mount Desert Island paths published by the Village Improvement Societies of Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor, Northeast, and Southeast Harbor. Cover reads: "A Path Guide of Mount Desert Island Maine Published by The Village Improvement Societies of Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor, Northeast, and Southeast Harbor 1915"
Description: Black Effanbee Doll also called "Topsy" after the character in the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Composition body with painted on features and some hair.
Description: Wooden canoe paddle given as a prize to Llewelyn Barry for winning first place in the Mt. Desert Canoe Club race. Text on paddle reads: "Mt. Desert Canoe Club. Aug. 20. 1900. First Prize."
Object, Water Transporation, Boat Paddle, Canoe Paddle
Subject:
none
Date:
1900-08
Place:
Mount Desert
Description: Canoe paddle used by Llewellyn Barry when competing and winning the Mt. Desert Canoe Club Race, August of 1900. "Barry" is written on the paddle handle.
Description: Mustard colored brocade back and seat with floral pattern. Wooden framing and spindle construction supporting arms which curve out slightly.
Description: Victrola made of oak, hinged top and compartment with two doors for record storage. Logo on inside of lid shows a dog listening to a Talking Machine with the text: "Victrola manufactured by Victor Talking Machine Co Camden, N.J. U.S.A Patented in united states and foreign countries".
Description: Promotional Clippings of Ted Shawn and his Ensemble of Men Dancers. Ted Shawn dance company performed in at the Bar Harbor Building of the Arts in 1938, the bottom clipping advertises that performance. Ted Shawn was one of the first notable male pioneers of American modern dance.
Description: Black and white photograph depicting the cast and band of a musical production at the Casino put on by the Bar Harbor American Legion. Musicians are seated on floor while cast stands are on stage. Various people have at one point been identified and their names are written on the image, though the writing is unclear.
Description: Black and white sepia tone publicity still for the 1918 Fox Film production "The Queen of the Sea" which was filmed on Mount Desert Island. Featured in the photo are five actors dressed in vaguely viking costumes with furs, horned or winged helmets, roman sandals, and carrying staffs, swords, crossbow and sheilds. Standing in the center with a lighter fur tunic, metal studded belt, large helmet, and holding a sword up is actor Walter Law portraying King Boreas. [show more]