Description: ...“BarHarbor Days” by Mrs. Burton Harrison with illustrations by Fenn and Hyde was published by Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York, 1887...
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: ...History of BarHarbor, with photographs by Sargent Collier...Includes chapters on Acadia National Park, social and club life, island laboratories, BarHarbor-Yarmouth ferry, Fire of 1947, Kebo Valley Golf Club, Bar...Harbor Club, Pot and Kettle Club, the Building of Arts, Great Automobile War...
Description: ...Many photographs of 19th century BarHarbor "cottages" and views. Also includes advertisements and two pages of narrative. No publisher indicated...
Description: ...Booklet, "A Souvenir of BarHarbor and Mount Desert Island" published by W.H...Sherman, Printer and Stationer, BarHarbor, ca. 1903-1905, with 66 b&w photos, and several ads...
Description: ...History of BarHarbor from approximately 1800-1950 According to the introduction, this book was written to "find out what had made it [BarHarbor] what...The book was written at the time of the BarHarbor fire and covers early explorers and claimants, settlers, town of Eden, artists, cottagers, summer colony...
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: ...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.