Description: ...Shows the old Eastern Yacht Club Pier, later the BarHarbor Reading Room Pier. Also shows the Shore Club, later the Mount Desert Reading Room...
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: ...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: ...Nellie Carroll Thornton descended from early settlers of Southwest Harbor and was related, in one way or another, to practically all of her neighbors...Nellie was the author of the SWH social column in the BarHarbor Times from c. 1921 until c. 1958...Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton (Nellie C...It was reproduced in 1988 by the Southwest Harbor Public Library and digitized in 2010...
File Attachment: Thornton - Traditions and Records SWH.pdf …Purington of BarHarbor and prayer by Rev. …The first message sent over the telegraph line from BarHarbor to Bangor was "From the Mayor of BarHarbor to the Mayor of Bangor Eden sends a telegraphic …., borrowed a boat of a neighbor and started for BarHarbor. …BarHarbor in the eighteen eighties.