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Main Street from Cottage Street - View of the Bradley Block and the Rodick Hotel - Bar Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	Places, Town Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel	Bradley - Bryant Bradley (1838-1890)	1870 c.	Bar Harbor	No Copyright - United States	Main Street from Cottage Street - View of the Bradley Block and the Rodick Hotel - Bar Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-5659 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Places, Town Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel Creator: Bradley - Bryant Bradley (1838-1890) Date: 1870 c. Place: Bar Harbor Description: The wood building at the left is the Bradley Block which was located between the First National and Bar Harbor Banks of 2007. Just visible on the awning is a mortar and pestle sign for a druggist. The building just to the right of the white store is A.W. Bee, Stationer. The large hotel at right was the Rodick House. The freshly renovated Rodick House is garnished with new trees planted and braced on the lawn. There are board sidewalks at the edge of the dirt road which, in turn, is garnished with manure from the many carriage horses shown in the picture. The sign at front lefts says, "Berry Bros. - Boarding Hack and Livery Stable - Cottage Street - Single & Double Teams Furnished Short Notice" The sign at front right says, "Café - John Dean - Phila Caterer - Chicken Croquettes - Medicated (?) Chicken Consomme" [show more]
Main Street Looking North Southwest Harbor School House with Bell tower on the left. Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Store Business Places, Town		1896 c.	Southwest Harbor	Copyright Not Evaluated	Main Street Looking North Southwest Harbor School House with Bell tower on the left. Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-5533 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Store Business Places, Town Date: 1896 c. Place: Southwest Harbor Description: Clark Point Road goes off to the right in the foreground. The Left side of Main Street: J.C. Ralph's Studio is the first whole building visible on the left. One of the old street lights and the wall of the Southwest Harbor Public Library are visible on the far side of the Ralph building. The Right Side of Main Street: The "fountain" sitting in the road in just about at the corner of Clark Point Road, is a horse watering fountain. The white two-story building with the belfry was Southwest Harbor’s first high school before the building was turned ninety degrees and moved to become the Harmon Block at 337 Main Street. Gilley Plumbing, later the Gilley Plumbing Company, is visible beyond the school building. [show more]
Main Street Looking North - Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard	Places, Town		1908 c.	Southwest Harbor	Copyright Not Evaluated	Main Street Looking North - Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-5680 Type: Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard Subject: Places, Town Date: 1908 c. Place: Southwest Harbor Description: Buildings on the Left: The J.C. Ralph Building is the first structure. One of the old street lights and the Southwest Harbor Public Library wall are visible beyond the Ralph building. The building after the library property is the Freeman J. Lurvey building - now 334 Main Street. Buildings on the Right: The rustic porch of the later demolished Elisha Crane House is visible on corner of Clark Point Road. The sign for what is now Clark Point Road refers to Steamboat Wharf, which is now part of the US Coast Guard property at the end of Clark Point Road. The horse drinking fountain is in the street in front of it. The Southwest Harbor School House as Harmon Block is the large white block-like building. The bell tower on the old Freeman Grammar School, now Harbor House, can be seen behind the Harmon Block. The small building at the far right was the George Gilley plumbing shop (later The Gilley Plumbing Company) at what is now 315 Main Street. [show more]
McMullen Avenue, McKinley, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	Places, Town Structures, Dwellings, House			Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley	Copyright Not Evaluated	McMullen Avenue, McKinley, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-6565 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Places, Town Structures, Dwellings, House Place: Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley Description: Buildings - Left to Right: Unknown darker house behind a small tree Francis McMullin Sr. House (the large white house behind a tree) Dora E. Torrey House - 14 McMullen Avenue H.G. Reed Store - Harbor Avenue (Route 102 A) at the corner of McMullen Avenue
Street at Rocky Neck Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print	Places, Town	Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)	1892-05-30	New England	No Copyright - United States	Street at Rocky Neck Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-8226 Type: Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print Subject: Places, Town Creator: Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945) Date: 1892-05-30 Place: New England
Main Street Looking South Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print	Places, Town			Southwest Harbor	Copyright Not Evaluated	Main Street Looking South Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-9394 Type: Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print Subject: Places, Town Place: Southwest Harbor
Two Men at J.C. Ralph's Studio & Post Office Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	Places, Town Structures, Commercial, Store		1898 c.	Southwest Harbor	No Known Copyright	Two Men at J.C. Ralph's Studio & Post Office Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-5126 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Places, Town Structures, Commercial, Store Date: 1898 c. Place: Southwest Harbor Description: There are several street lamps visible in the photograph - the one on the right is different from the others. The lamp post on the left is at the corner of Clark Point Road. The building with the overhang beyond it is the Odd Fellows building. The building on the right is J.C. Ralph's Studio - Optician and Jeweler - and the Post Office. A man is standing in the door of the Post Office and a man standing in front of Ralph's Studio. The photograph was taken soon after John Ralph moved his store and expanded it. “In 1897, the different societies in the village combined to raise funds for street lights. The lamps were bought and placed near those houses whose owners were willing to furnish the kerosene and keep the lamps trimmed and lighted. These lamps did duty until the installation of electricity in the summer of 1917.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 124. [show more]
View to the South, Main Street, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	Places, Town		1898 c.	Southwest Harbor	Copyright Not Evaluated	View to the South, Main Street, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-5127 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Places, Town Date: 1898 c. Place: Southwest Harbor Description: The building on the right is J.C. Ralph's Studio - Optician and Jeweler - and the Post Office. The photograph shows a woman standing in the door of the Post Office. Note the street lamp in front of Ralph's Studio. Clark Point Road goes off to the left. The building with the overhang beyond it is the Odd Fellows building.
The Clark Point Area and Greening Island from Freeman Ridge Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	Places, Harbor Places, Town		1888 c.	Southwest Harbor	No Copyright - United States	The Clark Point Area and Greening Island from Freeman Ridge Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-5220 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Places, Harbor Places, Town Date: 1888 c. Place: Southwest Harbor Description: "From high on Freeman's Hill, one can view the development on Clark Point, an area once owned by the island's first minister, Ebinazer Eaton. Deacon Clark's hostelry and the William Underwood & Company spurred development on this point. Many of the residences belong to Clark family members. Storekeepers and tradesmen drawn to the area for work were settling here as well. Far off in the distance, the towers of Robert Kaighn's elaborate 1892 summer cottage signal the beginnings of the summer colony." - Mount Desert Island - Somesville, Southwest Harbor, and Northeast Harbor by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. and Lydia B. Vandenbergh - Images of America Series, p. 52 - 2001 Compare this image to item 12583 for a contemporary view of the same scene. [show more]
Main Street Looking North - Southwest Harbor - Postcard Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	Places, Town		1908 c.	Southwest Harbor	Copyright Not Evaluated	Main Street Looking North - Southwest Harbor - Postcard Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-5555 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Places, Town Date: 1908 c. Place: Southwest Harbor Description: On the right: J.A. Freeman's Post Office building The Odd Fellows building Masonic Hall - not shown in picture - 353 Main Street George Harmon block - now 339 Main Street George H. Gilley Plumbing Shop - now 315 Main Street On the left: Residence built in 1883 by John Crockett - had several subsequent owners and a one-story store attached by Dudley Mayo. It was later a hotel. A.L. Holmes general store. Holmes Hotel. The Town Bandstand is just visible between the hotel and Ralph's store. One of the few photographs showing the bandstand. Small building at the end is John Ralph's studio - now 344 Main Street The first four buildings on the left and the Odd Fellows building were destroyed by the March 1922 fire. [show more]
The Southwest Harbor Congregational Church - I Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	Places, Town Structures, Ceremonial, Church	Bradley - Bryant Bradley (1838-1890)	1886 c.	Southwest Harbor	No Copyright - United States	The Southwest Harbor Congregational Church - I Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-5644 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Places, Town Structures, Ceremonial, Church Creator: Bradley - Bryant Bradley (1838-1890) Date: 1886 c. Place: Southwest Harbor Description: The United Church of Christ (Congregational) on the High Road when the building was only a couple of years old. View is from the Dirigo Road looking down the High Road. Looking west, one can see the small bean and clam canning factory of Allen Lawler at the foot of Lawler Lane.
Clark Point from the James Freeman House Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	Places, Shore Places, Town	Bradley - Bryant Bradley (1838-1890)	1871 c.	Southwest Harbor	No Copyright - United States	Clark Point from the James Freeman House Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-6275 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Places, Shore Places, Town Creator: Bradley - Bryant Bradley (1838-1890) Date: 1871 c. Place: Southwest Harbor
High Street North from Dirigo House, Southwest Harbor, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard	Places, Town		1906 c.	Southwest Harbor	Copyright Not Evaluated	High Street North from Dirigo House, Southwest Harbor, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-6783 Type: Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard Subject: Places, Town Publisher: The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine Date: 1906 c. Place: Southwest Harbor Description: Printed in Germany
Street View, SO. West Harbor, Me. Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard	Places, Town		1898 c.		Copyright Not Evaluated	Street View, SO. West Harbor, Me. Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-6784 Type: Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard Subject: Places, Town Publisher: The Robbins Bros. Co., Boston, Mass. and Germany Date: 1898 c. Description: Main Street looking north with view of Elisha Crane's House and Ralph's Store.
View of the Head of Southwest Harbor from Manset Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard	Places, Harbor Places, Shore Places, Town		1904 c.	Southwest Harbor	Copyright Not Evaluated	View of the Head of Southwest Harbor from Manset Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-6785 Type: Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard Subject: Places, Harbor Places, Shore Places, Town Publisher: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Date: 1904 c. Place: Southwest Harbor Description: "Dick: that is my house with the arrow over it. the place has changed some since that was taken. on that wharf there is a large factory now and eleven houses down there in the field. [on face of postcard] [on reverse of postcard] To Mr. Dexter Fowler, 56 Pine Street, Bath, Maine. Dear Friend Dick – I guess you thought I had forgotten you. But I should say not. I am a great fellow to put off writing. Have they had any fights at the shop since I left: I arrived home Sat. and went to work Wed. Raymond Whitmore, Southwest Harbor" [show more]
Main Street. Southwest Harbor - Looking South to the Post Office, Ashmont Hotel and Holmes House Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard	Places, Town		1905 c.	Southwest Harbor	Copyright Not Evaluated	Main Street. Southwest Harbor - Looking South to the Post Office, Ashmont Hotel and Holmes House Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-6839 Type: Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard Subject: Places, Town Publisher: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Date: 1905 c. Place: Southwest Harbor Description: The first building at left (363 Main Street) also housed Mayo's Ice Cream Parlor. There is a surveyor working at the edge of the road. The second building on the left, “The Ashmont” hotel at 371 Main Street was built in 1884.
View of Bass Harbor from the Underwood Water Tower Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard	Places, Harbor Places, Town	Kenway - Edward Northwood Kenway (1924-2017)	1938 c.	Tremont, Bass Harbor	Copyright Not Evaluated	View of Bass Harbor from the Underwood Water Tower Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-9337 Type: Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard Subject: Places, Harbor Places, Town Creator: Kenway - Edward Northwood Kenway (1924-2017) Date: 1938 c. Place: Tremont, Bass Harbor Description: The building with the tower in the distant background was the Charles B. Dix / Simeon Amassa Holden house and the stable (now moved) is the large building in the field behind it. The boathouse for that property, the Captain Charles B. Dix (1836-1906) Boat House, is on the white house directly on the shore next to the large clump of trees. It was the Lyle Arlington Reed house at the time the picture was taken - 143 Harbor Drive (Route 102A), Tremont, Maine. The building out on the spit is Little Island Marine, begun after WWII c. 1945-1946. The business on the shore just to the right of the wharf building was Lyle Arlington Reed’s store - 35 Shore Road, Bass Harbor (formerly McKinley), Maine. The small brown house in the middle of the large lot at the right, almost at the corner of McMullen Avenue and the Shore Road belonged to George Al Lovejoy (1903-1964). The house is now gone. It probably sat on the 9 McMullen Avenue property, Map 12 – Lot 44. The large building in the right foreground was owned by H.G. Reed and housed the Post Office on the ground floor facing the Shore Road – 45 Shore Road, Bass Harbor, Maine – Map 12 – Lot 43 The building at the left foreground was W.H. Thurston's General Store – later the Seafood Ketch restaurant – 47 Shore Road – Map 12 – Lot 42. [show more]
Looking South on Main Street, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard	Places, Town		1928 c.	Southwest Harbor	Copyright Not Evaluated	Looking South on Main Street, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-9393 Type: Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard Subject: Places, Town Publisher: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Date: 1928 c. Place: Southwest Harbor
Clark Point Road - View to West to Main Street Bandstand Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard	Places, Town		1925 c.	Southwest Harbor	Copyright Not Evaluated	Clark Point Road - View to West to Main Street Bandstand Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-9395 Type: Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard Subject: Places, Town Publisher: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Date: 1925 c. Place: Southwest Harbor Description: A. L. [Arthur A.] Gilley's barber shop is on the left - a small building which forms but a fraction of the structure. It is possible that, at the time this photograph was taken, Maurice Marshall was renting the barber shop. The gasoline pumps shown on the right are in what is now the Post Office parking lot. The bandstand can just be seen across Main Street in the back of the photograph. The automobile is definitely c. 1925-1926 - very possibly a 1925 Maxwell 5 Passenger Sedan. To read about the Maxwell Motor Car Company - See “Maxwell Motor and the Making of the Chrysler Corporation” by Anthony J. Yanik, published by Wayne State University Press, 2009. [show more]
Main Street Southwest Harbor Looking South Before 1922 Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard	Places, Town		1908 c.	Southwest Harbor	Copyright Not Evaluated	Main Street Southwest Harbor Looking South Before 1922 Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-9399 Type: Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard Subject: Places, Town Date: 1908 c. Place: Southwest Harbor
View of Bass Harbor from the Underwood Water Tower Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph, Negative	Places, Town	Kenway - Edward Northwood Kenway (1924-2017)	1938 c.	Tremont, Bass Harbor	In Copyright	View of Bass Harbor from the Underwood Water Tower Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-15225 Type: Image, Photograph, Negative Subject: Places, Town Creator: Kenway - Edward Northwood Kenway (1924-2017) Date: 1938 c. Place: Tremont, Bass Harbor Description: See item 9337 for details about the subjects in this image.
Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library	Publication, Book	People Places, Town	Carroll - Nellie Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton (1871-1958)	1938		In Copyright	Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-12691 Type: Publication, Book Subject: People Places, Town Creator: Carroll - Nellie Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton (1871-1958) Publisher: Acadia Publishing Company Date: 1938 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. She inherited her aunt Mary Ann Carroll’s notes for a planned history of the town. Nellie was the author of the SWH social column in the Bar Harbor Times from c. 1921 until c. 1958. She combined her notes from the Times with those from Mary Ann and a good deal of scholarship to produce a very complete history of the town, full of opinion, local mythology and history. She was an astute observer and made a laudable effort to distinguish mythology from history. She left the town she loved its most valuable gift. Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton (Nellie C. Thornton) was originally published by Merrill & Webber Company in 1938. It was reproduced in 1988 by the Southwest Harbor Public Library and digitized in 2010. [show more]
Birdseye view of Manset, Me Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard	Places, Town		1906 c.	Southwest Harbor, Manset	Copyright Not Evaluated	Birdseye view of Manset, Me Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-6848 Type: Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard Subject: Places, Town Publisher: The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine Date: 1906 c. Place: Southwest Harbor, Manset Description: Stanley Fisheries Sluice from Ice Pond to Ice House
Albert Wilson Bee's Store - A.W. Bee, Stationer, Bar Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	Places, Town Structures, Commercial, Store	Bradley - Bryant Bradley (1838-1890)	1870	Bar Harbor, Eden	No Copyright - United States	Albert Wilson Bee's Store - A.W. Bee, Stationer, Bar Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-5892 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Places, Town Structures, Commercial, Store Creator: Bradley - Bryant Bradley (1838-1890) Date: 1870 Place: Bar Harbor, Eden Description: The photograph was taken from the porch of the Rodick Hotel.
Aerial View of Bass Harbor, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard	Places, Town	Phillips - Augustus Dewey Phillips (1898-1975)		Tremont, Bass Harbor	In Copyright	Aerial View of Bass Harbor, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-9323 Type: Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard Subject: Places, Town Creator: Phillips - Augustus Dewey Phillips (1898-1975) Place: Tremont, Bass Harbor Description: Bass Harbor, Maine near the southern point of Mount Desert Island. Air view shows lobster boats, the Swans Island Ferry Terminal, the Wyman Packing Co. Factory in Bass Harbor Village and Mount Desert Hills in Acadia National Park.

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