Description: ...Round trip tickets can be had of the company's agent, on Main Street, BarHarbor. F.H...." - Part of an advertisement appearing in BarHarbor and Mount Desert Island by William Berry Lapham - 1887...
Description: ...illustration for Chapter 8 of the serialized story, "Their Pilgrimage," by author Charles Dudley Warner in which the characters in the story visited Bar...Harbor...
Description: ...Burton Harrison's Novel, "BarHarbor Days"..."From Trenton Point we took by boat a tent and simple camp “outfit” to where BarHarbor now stands; tied the boat in the bushes about where steamboat wharf...
Description: ...Ballard Collection Southwest Harbor, Maine. Also marked, “Green Moutain Railway By Bryant Bradley. Circa 1883. Bryant Bradley was born near 1840...
Description: Green Mountain Cog Railway engine with Eagle Lake in background. Lumber pile near track. Man in hat and long coat stands next to track. Three men on the engine. Four tack holes in corners of photo. Water stain on top of photo. On back: Engineer Frank Wiggin, Assistant Edwin Stevens, Foreground-Nick Curran- Bld Fossi's (?) Supr. 2 photos: 1 sepia, the other a copy of same
Description: Black and white photo. of Green Mountain Cog Railway tracks on Cadillac Mountain. Eagle Lake in background. Sawed logs beside track. Framed.
Description: Otter Creek from eastern shore. Shows fishing shack on east shore and schooner at old town landing on west shore. Collected for "Mount Desert: an Informal History". Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
Description: Otter Creek from western shore. Shows wooden bridge, Russian Tea Room to right of trees above water. Farm dates from 1880's. Collected for "Mount Desert: an Informal History". Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
Description: Green Mountain Railway train descending, or ascending the Mountain. Photo taken from pier on Eagle Lake. Large shed with verticle siding to the left. Tracks run through train shed in middle. Third building to the right of train shed. Shack to far right near lake. Lumber scattered throughout scene, perhaps used for steam engine. Bryant Bradley was born about 1840. His wife’s name was Ellen. She was born about1847. Their son Harry born around 1876 became a photographer also. His father died by 1900 and Harry had taken over the studio. Mounted on cardboard. [show more]