Description: An illustration of Rusticators on the top of Newport Mountain, later known as Champlain Mountain. From Harper's Weekly, Volume 22, No. 1654
Description: This illustration is part of an article about the various things to do on Mount Desert Island in the late 19th century. Vol. 73 Harper's New Monthly Magazine June to November 1886 LXXIII Title: Climbing Newport Mountain Subject: Rusticators climbing Cadillac Mt. Publication: Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Date: August 1886 Volume and Number): Volume 73 – Number 435 Page: 419 The drawing was an 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. Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900) was a novelist and friend of Mark Twain. [show more]
Description: Detail from a sketch by Champlain on his map depicting a 1609 battle between the Iroquois and Algonquian tribes near Lake Champlain. From Champlain's 1613 "Voyages." This image of him is considered to be the only "authentic" depiction of Samuel as it is contemporary to him and, of course, drawn by him.
Description: The illustration by Edith Brand appears on page 110 in "A Case of Sardines: A Story of the Maine Coast" by Charles Poole Cleaves, The Pilgrim Press, 1904. A sentimental novel that includes descriptions of the lives of those employed by sardine factories on the coast of Maine. The town of Echo Bluffs is fictional.