Description: ...The BarHarbor Express was a seasonal passenger train serving BarHarbor, Maine...From Mount Desert Ferry, steamers took passengers to BarHarbor...." - "BarHarbor" by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr., Postcard Series, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, South Carolina, 2011, p. 20...The BarHarbor Express was involved in a crash with the White Mountain Express on September 2, 1913 in New Haven, CT...
Description: ...From the 1880s to the end of World War I, the fashionable resort of BarHarbor attracted thousands of summer visitors with the money and leisure to pursue...Many relaxed at BarHarbor's lavish hotels, while others built even more lavish and fanciful "cottages" for their own summer retreats...Eighty-six vanished summer palaces are pictured in Lost BarHarbor...Many never before published photographs from the BarHarbor Historical Society are supplemented by lively text describing the estates and their colorful...
Description: ...See “Bygone BarHarbor: A Postcard Tour of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park” by Earl Brechlin, p. 29 - 2002 See online - “Blair Eyrie 1894...- “American Country Homes and Their Gardens” By John Cordis Baker, 1906, Chapter – “Garden at Blair Eyrie, The Estate of DeWitt Clinton Blair, Esq., Bar...Harbor, Me. - Andrews Jaques & Rantoul Architects” - p. 13...Sherman, BarHarbor, Maine...
File Attachment: 1947 Bar Harbor Fire.pdf …the BarHarbor, Maine Fire Department received a call from a Mrs. …Written by an historian who was on the scene for the 1947 BarHarbor Fire. …BarHarbor: A Town Almost Lost A Pictorial Essay of BarHarbor s Mansions Before and After the Fire of 1947 by Deborah M. …Dyer, maps courtesy of Arthur Corliss, BarHarbor Historical Society, BarHarbor, Maine, 2008. Author: Charlotte R. Morrill Date: 2016
Description: ...Brown's Studio was located at 6 Cottage Street in BarHarbor...Most of the mail-to addresses (when listed) are in Southwest Harbor, Manset, McKinley, Bernard, and Bass Harbor...
File Attachment: accession-index-2024.pdf …., BarHarbor, ME Item Number 2024-001 2024-002 2024-003 2024-004 2024-005 2024-006 Date Identification/Information 4/7/1966 4/7/1966 4/7/1966 4/7/1966 …556, Southwest Harbor ME Mailed to Sheila Hall, Box 556, Southwest Harbor ME Mailed to Sheila Hall, Box 556, Southwest Harbor ME Mailed to Sheila Hall …, Box 556, Southwest Harbor ME Mailed to Sheila Hall, Box 556, Southwest Harbor ME Mailed to Sheila Hall, Box 556, Southwest Harbor ME Mailed to Sheila …Powers, Bass Harbor 2024-350 11/16/1968 Mailed to Jane Powers, Bass Harbor 2024-351 11/16/1968 Mailed to Jane Powers, Bass Harbor 2024-352 11/
Description: ..."Harbor View Motel, Southwest Harbor, Maine 04679, On ocean front - twelve modern, soundproof motel units - continental breakfasts in season - four housekeeping...“Soon Announcing… The Opening of New Harbor View Motel, Southwest Harbor” - Advertisement, BarHarbor Times, April 22, 1954...
Description: ...Together, the pictures and text evoke the spirit of the Golden Age of BarHarbor, with all the accoutrements of the rich and famous robber barons who summered...the fabulous grand hotels; people in period dress in leisure pursuits; and the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1947, as well as views of the town and harbor...
Description: ...Emery had photography studios in BarHarbor and in Portland...
File Attachment: Emery - Ernest E. Emery (1849-1933).pdf …Emery (1849-1933) Father: Samuel Newell Emery (1815-1897) Mother: Eliza Ann Ladd (1858-1915) Birth Date: May 1, 1849 Born at: Salisbury Cove, BarHarbor …- The BarHarbor Record, April 17, 1890 Charles W. Hearn originally of Philadelphia? The "HEARN STUDIO," F. E. …The BarHarbor Record, March 30, 1898. …Keene, December 19, 1918 BarHarbor Times, December 28, 1918
Description: ...In 1892 the ladies of Southwest Harbor gathered together to raise money for land upon which to build a library building and then reported how they raised...their dollar..The Dollar Social was the first fundraising event held for the Southwest Harbor Public Library and the poem describing it was famous in...
File Attachment: The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor.pdf …The Dollar Social At Southwest Harbor The Southwest Harbor Public library was founded in 1884. …Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 115. …"The Dollar Social At Southwest Harbor" describes how each woman earned her dollar. …Tracy, our Republican friend, took a bribe, I'm sorry to state, For her husband promised her a dollar if she would help him illuminate, So she sacrificed bar
Description: ...Isaac Thomas Moore worked as a photographer in BarHarbor from at least 1893, and in Northeast Harbor from 1900 to 1940...
File Attachment: Moore_-_Isaac_Thomas_Moore_1872-1963.pdf …Moore - cottage on Harbourside Road, Northeast Harbor, Maine No. 48? …Joseph Norwood - BarHarbor Record, October 18, 1899. 1910: MDI Register many advertisements 1912: Cottage Directory p. 15 advertisement 1919 …- BarHarbor Times, May 14, 1919. 1920: Cottage Directory p. 76 advertisement 1923: Newspaper accounts speak of his studio as being open for the summers …BarHarbor Times, November 6, 1936. Lakeland is half way between Tampa and Orlando. 1940: Isaac T.
Description: ...Subjects include: - Ambulance - Beals Bowling Alley - BarHarbor Banking and Trust - Southwest Harbor Bus Lines bus - The Causeway Club and sale water...swimming pool - Clark Point - Elmwood Cafe - Gordon & White garage - Harbor View Motel - Library - Main Street - The Moorings - Pumping station...- Pemetic School - Steam Boat Wharf - Southwest Harbor Motor Co...
File Attachment: accession-contact-sheet-1175.pdf …FOR RESEARCH ONLY ~ Page 1 of 7 ~ Southwest Harbor Public Library Digital Archive ~ Accession 1175 SWH/ #874, SW Harbor 1940.jpg (3977x2617) SWH/ SWHPL …SWHPL 2109.tif (3812x2775) https://swhplibrary.net/digitalarchive ~ archives@swhplibrary.org ~ 2023-03-11 FOR RESEARCH ONLY ~ Page 2 of 7 ~ Southwest Harbor …SWHPL 2565.tif (3850x2749) https://swhplibrary.net/digitalarchive ~ archives@swhplibrary.org ~ 2023-03-11 FOR RESEARCH ONLY ~ Page 3 of 7 ~ Southwest Harbor …-3- SCAN.tif (2860x2167) https://swhplibrary.net/digitalarchive ~ archives@swhplibrary.org ~ 2023-03-11 FOR RESEARCH ONLY ~ Page 4 of 7 ~ Southwest Harbor
Description: ...BarHarbor Record BarHarbor Times Mount Desert Herald...
File Attachment: accession-contact-sheet-1119.pdf …FOR RESEARCH ONLY ~ Page 1 of 2 ~ Southwest Harbor Public Library Digital Archive Box 2016-7 (to be scanned) 19x25 GSP_0001.jpg (1600x1067) GSP_0002. …FOR RESEARCH ONLY ~ Page 2 of 2 ~ Southwest Harbor Public Library Digital Archive Scanned SWHPL 1022-01 - PB SCAN.jpg (775x1200) SWHPL 1022-02 - PB SCAN.jpg
Description: ...The first feature of the day was the band concert given the Southwest Harbor band, assisted by Lindall’s band of Boston and BarHarbor, at the rustic little...In the afternoon after the band concert the ball game between Northeast Harbor and BarHarbor nines was called, in the field near the Union church...To the BarHarbor people there was nothing pleasanter for the day than the sail back and forth on the [steamer] Golden Rod. Capt....” – The BarHarbor Record, July 6, 1895...