Description: ...1.The Davis BarHarbor Buckboard Company (c. 1889),copy of news paper article...“The Davis BarHarbor Buckboard Company - First Manufacturing Concern in BarHarbor - W.H. Davis, L.B. Decey (Deasy?), C.E. Marcyes”...Company on School Street in BarHarbor. Circa 1889. 2 "Memories of old BarHarbor..." Down East Magazine, July 1976, by Cathleen Sherman Clayton...Map, Village of BarHarbor, BarHarbor, Town of Eden, Mount Desert, c.1881. 4."The Fire," typwritten ms. by Horace H. Leavitt, Pres,...
Description: ...BarHarbor Record “Early Settlers of BarHarbor” by Rev. O.H. Fernald August 14, 1890. Previously acessioned as **0864, Object Id 012.FIC.043.6...
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: ...Two articles pertaining to the history of the BarHarbor Times newspaper...Titles are: BarHarbor Times is Fifty Years Old This Week, commemorative edition, published in the BarHarbor Times, BarHarbor Times Has New Owners,...
Maureen Williams, writing for Bangor Daily News; LaRue Spiker for Ellsworth American
Description: ...Articles on two pages each reporting on the possible acquisition of a BarHarbor estate owned by William Wolff by an medical research enterprise, Ivest...
Description: ...3 short pieces of perspectives on the Fire; role of the Navy in the fire, Perspective of Jim Butler BarHarbor Times ,10/13/1983, written by Dotty Cooke...A first hand account of the 1947 BarHarbor fire as told by Dotty Cooke...Ellsworth American account LaRue Spiker of 1942 fire 25 years ago 1967 account of 1947 fire supplement in BarHarbor Times...
Description: ...Newpaper clipping, Bangor Daily News, 6 June 1956, pp. 17-18 & 21-22, "Maine Greets Opening of Yarmouth-BarHarbor Ferry," about the new ferry terminal...in BarHarbor, and the Bluenose ferry...
Description: ...Newsclipping: BarHarbor Times “Somesville News Items and Social Happenings”. Previously accessioned as **0680, Object Id 011.FIC.71.8...
Description: ...Facts from an article written by Albert Higgins for the BarHarbor Times March 1929...Availability of provisions in 1855 to 1866 in BarHarbor; mention of Russell Fish factory on Dix Point, Russell Coal wharf and steamboats at Goose Cove...
Description: ...Newspaper clipping, "BarHarbor residents fleeing famed resort town feared doomed by forest fire", with picture of different fire, from West Palm Beach...
Description: ...Newsclipping: BarHarbor Times “Old Days at Somesville” January 29, 1937. Three copies Previously accessioned as **0653, Object Id 011.FIC.67.3...
Various Newspapers and Publications and LaRue Spiker
Description: ...Newspaper clipping from "BarHarbor Times", 3/24/88, entitled "Subdivisions blossom in BarHarbor" and "84-acre Subdivision Approved for Mt...
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...