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You searched for: 'bar harbor'Subject: PlacesType: PublicationType: Book
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Bar Harbor Days
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places
  • Cary - Constance (Cary) Harrison (1843-1920)
  • 1887
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Bar Harbor Days
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...“Bar Harbor Days” by Mrs. Burton Harrison with illustrations by Fenn and Hyde was published by Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York, 1887...
Lost Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places, Town
  • Helfrich - Helfrich, G. F
  • O'Neil - Gladys O'Neil
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Lost Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...From the 1880s to the end of World War I, the fashionable resort of Bar Harbor attracted thousands of summer visitors with the money and leisure to pursue...Many relaxed at Bar Harbor'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 Bar Harbor...Many never before published photographs from the Bar Harbor Historical Society are supplemented by lively text describing the estates and their colorful...
Bar Harbor Club
Jesup Memorial Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places, Town
  • 1930 - 1932
  • Bar Harbor
Bar Harbor Club
Jesup Memorial Library
File Attachments:
The Bar Harbor Club 1930-uncompressed.pdf
…aws mi ww y ch THE BAR HARBOR CLUB BAR HARBOR MAINE AS OF June 10th, 1930 I OFFICERS Edward T. …CONSTITUTION AND BY LAWS OF THE BAR HARBOR CLUB (As amended September 23, 1929) Bar Harbor, Maine. Article I. Name and Seal. …Club, Bar Harbor, Maine 1929 and its principal office or place of business shall be at Bar Harbor, Maine. …Summer Residents of Bar Harbor.

The Bar Harbor Club 1932-uncompressed.pdf
…THE BAR HARBOR CLUB BAR HARBOR MAINE AS OF January 1st, 1932 OFFICERS Edward T. Stotesbury, 'President Potter Palmer, 'Vice President John S. …Edward Cary Williams Milton, Mass. 8 CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE BAR HARBOR CLUB Bar Harbor, Maine. Article I. Name and Seal. …Club, Bar Harbor, Maine 1929 and its principal office or place of business shall be at Bar Harbor, Maine. …Summer Residents of Bar Harbor.
Bar Harbor Record, 1796-1896 Centennial Souvenir Edition
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Events
  • Other
  • Places, Town
  • August 1896
  • Bar Harbor
Description:
...This copy contains information & photographs from 1796-1896 relating to Bar Harbor. (Gift from Donald Norton)...
The Bar Harbor Directory
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places, Town
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • F. C. Fearing
  • 1947
  • Bar Harbor
The Bar Harbor Directory
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Cottage directory. Scan: Cover, first pages only.
A Souvenir of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island published by W.H. Sherman, Printer and Stationer
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Places, Town
  • 1903
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Description:
...Booklet, "A Souvenir of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island" published by W.H...Sherman, Printer and Stationer, Bar Harbor, ca. 1903-1905, with 66 b&w photos, and several ads...
Bygone Bar Harbor - A Postcard Tour of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places
  • Brechlin - Earl Brechlin
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
...Together, the pictures and text evoke the spirit of the Golden Age of Bar Harbor, 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...
Sequel to Bar Harbor in its heydays
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places, Town
  • Maxwell G. Woodward
  • 1984
Sequel to Bar Harbor in its heydays
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Signed copy. Illustrated with old photographs and postcards from the author's collection. Scan: Cover, first pages only.
A Path Guide of Mount Desert Island Maine
Bar Harbor Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Places, Hiking Trail
  • 1915
  • Mount Desert Island
  • Copyright Undetermined
A Path Guide of Mount Desert Island Maine
Bar Harbor Historical Society
Description:
...Guide to Mount Desert Island paths published by the Village Improvement Societies of Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor, Northeast, and Southeast Harbor...Cover reads: "A Path Guide of Mount Desert Island Maine Published by The Village Improvement Societies of Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor, Northeast, and Southeast...Harbor 1915"...
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
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 Bar Harbor 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 Bar Harbor and prayer by Rev. …The first message sent over the telegraph line from Bar Harbor to Bangor was "From the Mayor of Bar Harbor to the Mayor of Bangor Eden sends a telegraphic …., borrowed a boat of a neighbor and started for Bar Harbor. …Bar Harbor in the eighteen eighties.
Uses of Birch-Bark in the Northeast
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Other
  • People
  • Places
  • Eva L. Butler, Wendell S. Hadlock
  • 1957
Uses of Birch-Bark in the Northeast
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
...Published by the Robert Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine. Second printing, 1974...
Cemeteries of Cranberry Isles and the towns of Mount Desert Island : a record of dates on gravestones in cemeteries of Bar Harbor, Cranberry Isles, Mount Desert, Southwest Harbor, and Tremont
Tremont Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Cemeteries -- Maine -- Cranberry Isles Maine -- Bar Harbor
  • Other, Cranberry Isles (Me.) -- Genealogy
  • Other, Mount Desert Island (Me.) -- Genealogy
  • Places, Cemetery
  • Vining, Thomas F
  • 2000
Mount Desert Island Acadia National Park
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places, Park
  • Places, Town
  • K. H. Mansfield, M. B. Mansfield, Editors
  • 1947
  • Acadia National Park
Description:
...Tour guide prepared by the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce describing the villages on the Island and Acadia National Park...
Mount Desert Views 1884
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places
  • 1884
  • No Known Copyright
Mount Desert Views 1884
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...Bar Harbor from Summit of Green Mountain 2. Great Head and Newport Sands 3. Schooner Head 4. Green Mountain Railway, 500 Feet Grade 5...The Boulder, Bar Harbor 8. Steamer Mount Desert 9. Green Mountain Railway Station at Base of Green Mountain 10...Bar Harbor...
Mount Desert Souvenir : Fifteenth Annual Excursion of the Massachusetts Press Association, July 5-9, 1884
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places
  • Allen - Warren P. Allen (1843-1905)
  • 1884
  • Mount Desert Island
  • No Known Copyright
Description:
...A souvenir album of the Bar Harbor, Maine, area published by Charles W. Eddy, Ware, Massachusetts, with autoglyph prints by W. P...


File Attachment:
Mount Desert Souvenir - Fifteenth Annual Excursion of the Massach.pdf
…A L LE '\ , ~ ~BAR HAE\BOR MOUNT J DESEE\T,~- I T is becoming more a nd more a recognized fact, as the years roll by, that -in thi s hurry ing Yankee
The Stanleys of Cranberry Isles…and Other Colorful Characters.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Stanley - Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021)
  • 2017-07-09
  • In Copyright
Description:
...Ralph bears many titles and awards, but for the Southwest Harbor Public Library he is, most of all, a friend...To purchase the print version of this book please contact the Southwest Harbor Public Library at archivist@swhplibrary.org or (207) 244-7065...


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2021_The_Stanleys_of_Cranberry_Isles_2021-03-25.pdf
…The Bar Harbor Record reports that on June 21st, 1883, Capt. E. J. …The nearest stores were in Bar Harbor or Ellsworth. …Harbor Record Newspaper - microfilm at the Jesup Library, Bar Harbor, Maine Bar Harbor Times Newspaper - microfilm at the Jesup Library, Bar Harbor …Papers, Jesup Library, Bar Harbor, Maine Grondahl, Paul.
Pathmakers: Cultural Landscape Report for the Historic Hiking Trail System of Mount Desert Island
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places, Hiking Trail
  • Brown - Margaret Coffin Brown
  • 2006
  • Acadia National Park
  • No Copyright - United States
Description:
This book describes the history, existing conditions, and analysis of the historic hiking trail system of Mount Desert Island. The book was prepared by Margaret Brown. The project manager was Jim Vekasi.


File Attachment:
ANP Pathmakers.pdf
…While Bates served as Bar Harbor Bar Harbor district."" …Path, described VIA (#304) Harbor VIA (#303) Park, described by Bar by Bar Harbor VIA (previously described) (#327) re-cut, described by Bar Harbor …by Bar Harbor Blue and White Path, described by Bar Harbor Yellow Path, described by Bar Harbor VIA VIA map Jordan Mountain Trail, shown on 1893 …Harbor Hemlock Trail, described by Bar Harbor VIA VIA Section of Stratheden Trail, described by Bar Harbor Bicycle Path, described by Bar Harbor VIA
The Future of Mount Desert Island
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places, Island
  • Charles W. Eliot II
  • 1928
  • Mount Desert Island
The Future of Mount Desert Island
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Charles Eliot's report to the Plan Committee of the B. H. Village Improvement Society addressing the future of Lafayette National Park and of the villages on MDI via the park service or the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations. Maps included. (Scanned copy in part from University of Maine)


File Attachment:
SCB 917.41 ELI.pdf
…is divided into four townships-Bar Harbor, Mt. …One such opportunity and necessity is abetter land approach to the Park from Bar Harbor Village. …To bring the park into Bar Harbor and to approach the park from Bar Harbor through the valley of Cromwell Harbor Brook is the great opportunity of the …The Golf Clubs at Bar Harbor, Northeast Harbor, and Southwest Harbor, the Tennis and Swimming Club at Seal Harbor are illustrative.
Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places
  • Drake - Samuel Adams Drake
  • 1875
  • No Known Copyright
Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast
Southwest Harbor Public Library
File Attachment:
Drake - Nooks and Corners of the NE Coast.pdf
…At Somesville there is a comfortable hostel , but the larger summer hotels are at Bar Harbor and at South- west Harbor. …Soon after passing the bridge, that to Bar Harbor diverged to the left. …The roads from Bar Harbor and from North -east Harbor unite within a short distance of Somesville, and enter the village together. …Some handsome cottages have already sprung out of the prevailing ugli ness at Bar Harbor.
Sieur de Monts Publications
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature, Animals, Shellfish, Lobsters
  • Places, Garden
  • Places, Park
  • Acadia National Park, Sieur de Monts National Monument
Sieur de Monts Publications
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
...Addresses at Meeting held at Bar Harbor on August 22, 1916, to commemorate the establishment of the Sieur de Monts National Monument (1 copy) III...
Mount Desert Island, and the Cranberry Isles.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Dodge - Ezra Herrick Dodge III (1848-1882)
  • 1871
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Mount Desert Island, and the Cranberry Isles.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
File Attachment:
DODGE_-_SAWYERS_-_MT._DESERT_ISLAND_-_1871_B.pdf
…Salsbury; Bar Harbor, l\[i-;s Reynold;;. The Steamer Lewiston, Ca11t. …Reynold.-; , Bar Harbor, East Eden. Teachers. Gideon 1\fa, o, Edgar W. iiiggins. …Desert) for Bar Harbor and South West Harbor. Freight Taken at Reasonable Rates. …SAUVEUR, , I BAR HARBOR, - - - - - - EAST EDEN. 1t1aine.
Gotts Island Maine - Its People 1880-1992
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Johnson - Rita (Johnson) Kenway (1931-2011)
  • 1993
  • Tremont, Great Gott Island
  • In Copyright
Gotts Island Maine - Its People 1880-1992
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
An account of the summer visitors and native population on Gotts Island starting in the 1890's, the book describes the island experience, the families, and changes that took place over the next 100 years.


File Attachment:
Gotts Island Maine - Kenway.pdf
…Reportedly, one of his guests was President Taft who had come to Bar Harbor to play golf. The mansion burned during the Bar Harbor fire in 1947. …Bar Harbor showed little change. July 4. …On Aug. 19, they look an auto to Southwest Harbor and the train boat to Bar Harbor. …Only a duffel bag was found off Egg Rock , Bar Harbor.
Sieur De Monts National Monument - The White Mountain National Forest
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places, Park
  • George B. Dorr
  • 1917
  • Acadia National Park, Sieur de Monts National Monument
Description:
Development of what is now Acadia National Park. Article provides history and descriptions of the area covered under the U.S. Monuments Act of 1906. (Scanned copy in part from archive.org)


File Attachment:
SCB 719 DORR.pdf
…the Champlain made his first landing within this on Mount Desert Island, close to Bar Harbor seaward side wherever he first found safe beaching …Between these other two a third approach the Cadillac is planned, starting from the Bar Harbor Athletic Field and Park, where the Government ofiice is, …Addresses at Meeting held at Bar Harbor on August 2 2 1916, to commemorate the establishment of the Sieur de Monts National Monument. …These Publications may be obtained by writing to THE CUSTODIAN, Sieur de Monts National Monument, Bar Harbor, Maine,
The Jones Cove Shell-Heap
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places, Park
  • Places, Shore
  • Walter B. Smith
  • 1929
  • Acadia National Park, Lafayette National Park
The Jones Cove Shell-Heap
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Bulletin 1, The Jones cove Shell-Heap at West Gouldsboro, Maine by W. B. Smith in connection with Lafayette National Park - account of archeological digs at this Flanders Bay site in W. Gouldsboro, ME in 1928.
Tercentenary of the Landing of the Popham Colony at the mouth of the Kennebec river
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Events
  • Other
  • Places
  • Maine Historical Society
  • 1907
Description:
Tercentenary of the Landing of the Popham Colony at the mouth of the Kennebec river. August 29, 1907. (Scanned copy in part from archive.org)


File Attachment:
SCB 974.1 POP.pdf
…And of St, George's " I would boldly affirme it to be the most rich, River he says, beautiful, large, and secure harboring River that the world affordeth …and welcoming spaces and sunny skies invite The wandering world at last into ways of gladness and right And lo the portal is freedom, which knows not bar …George's harbor, the Pento the American coast. tecost harbor of Waymouth's anchorage in 1605, was doubtless the place of rendezvous agreed upon by Challons …From the fact that the Popham colonists, on their arrival on the coast in 1607, proceeded at once, after the two vessels came together in Pentecost harbor