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Children Climbing fire truck
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • c 1950s - c 1960s
Children Climbing fire truck
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Unknown Children climbing off the back of fire truck, two men helping. One story white clapboard house with black shutters behind truck.
Children on Back of Fire Truck
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Transportation, Automobile
Children on Back of Fire Truck
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Children on back of fire truck outside large two story white clapboard house with three dormers.
Children on Fire Truck
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Unknown
Children on Fire Truck
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Eight children riding on fire truck. Trees branches and telephone wires overhead. House in background hiding behind trees.
Harriet Somes Sanderson & Electric Car
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Transportation, Automobile
Harriet Somes Sanderson & Electric Car
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Harriet Somes Sanderson standing outside electric car. Small car, seats two. Door open, inside and door lined with ticking type material. Woman inside car wears wire rim glasses, black wide-brimmed hat with dark dress. Sanderson wears hat with large feather covering crown. One side of brim turns up. Carries fur coat or stole over hands. Wears long velvet skirt with shorter dress or coat of a lighter color over skirt. Small trees in meadow in the background. Marked on back, “Mama and her electric car.” [show more]
First blimp to come to Bar Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Transportation, Aerostat, Airship, Blimp
  • nd
First blimp to come to Bar Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
First blimp to Bar Harbor. Was destroyed on route to New York U.S. Navy blimp
Echo Lake from Route 102
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Building
  • Places, Landscape
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Unknown
  • c 1950s
  • Echo Lake, Mt. Desert, Maine
Echo Lake from Route 102
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Echo Lake from route 102 across from Echo Vista. Looking towards Beech Cliff. Echo Vista restaurant on left. Sign on building reads Dairy Creem. Cars parked in front. Marked on back, “Side view of Echo Vista - Mt. Desert Island showing general location and a little [?] view. Echo Vista is on Echo Lake Road, halfway between Somesville and S.W. Harbor - Route 3/102 to Mt. Desert from Info booth as you leave the causeway. Gift of M.L. Hughs.
Harriet Somes Sanderson with electric car
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • People
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Unknown
Harriet Somes Sanderson with electric car
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Harriet Somes Sanderson standing outside electric car. Small car, seats two. Door open, inside and door lined with ticking type material. Woman inside care wears wire rim glasses, black wide brimmed hat with dark dress. Sanderson wears hat with large feater covering crown. One side of brim turns up. Carries fur coat or stole over hands. Wears long velvet skirt with shorter dress or coat of a lighter color over skirt. Small trees in meadow in the background. Marked on back, “Mama and her electric car.” [show more]
Mount Washington Railway (formerly Green Mountain Railway)
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Places, Landscape
  • Transportation, Train
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • c 1900s
  • Mount Washington
Description:
Former Green Mountain railway as Mount Washington Railway. Engine and car. Engine pushing car over trestle. Two men sitting on top of engine, one man standing next to coal car. Several people standing outside passenger car, others inside.
Snowshoe
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Transportation, Snowshoe
  • Nature, Seasons, Winter
  • Other, leather
  • Other, shoes
  • Transportation, Snowshoe
  • 06/14/2011
Snowshoe
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Wooden frame with woven rawhide strips. Leather moccasin partially intact. Ropes to tie around feet.
Handwritten notes or copies of newspaper articles about cars on MDI
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Automobiles
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Transportation, Transit Railway Vehicle, Streetcar, Trolley
Description:
No indication of who copied the articles.
Train on the Green Mountain Railway Stereograph
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Places, Mountain
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • Acadia National Park, Cadillac Mountain
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Train on the Green Mountain Railway Stereograph
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Passengers travel up Cadillac Mountain the Green Mountain cog railway. Inscription on the back reads "R. H. Hyson" in blue pen. Black and white
Green Mountain Railway Tracks Stereograph
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Places, Mountain
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • Acadia National Park, Cadillac Mountain
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Green Mountain Railway Tracks Stereograph
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
View looking down the tracks of the Green Mountain Railway on Mount Desert Island, ME. Inscription on the back reads "R. H. Hyson" in blue pen. Black and white
Green Mountain Railway Tracks and Station Stereograph
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Places, Mountain
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • Acadia National Park, Cadillac Mountain
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Green Mountain Railway Tracks and Station Stereograph
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
View looking down the tracks of the Green Mountain Railway, toward the station on Mount Desert Island, ME. Inscription on the back reads "R. H. Hyson" in blue pen. Black and white
Wagon in Front of Higgins' Store Photograph
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals, Dogs
  • Nature, Animals, Horses
  • People
  • Structures, Commercial, Store
  • Transportation, Carriage
  • Mount Desert, Somesville
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Wagon in Front of Higgins' Store Photograph
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Horse and wagon parked on the street in front of the F.J. Higgins store. People Mentioned: F. J. Higgins Black and white
Mount Desert House Stereograph
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals, Horses
  • People
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Inn
  • Transportation, Carriage
  • Allen
  • Mount Desert Island
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Mount Desert House Stereograph
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Tourists and a horse and buggy on the grounds of the Mount Desert House in Somesville, ME. Inscription on the back reads "R. H. Hyson" in blue pen and "Mt. Desert House/ Somesville" in black pen. Black and white
Women with Horse and Carriage Photograph
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals, Horses
  • People
  • Recreation
  • Transportation, Carriage
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Women with Horse and Carriage Photograph
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Two women with hats in a carriage pulled by a horse. Black and white
Otter Creek Cove Photograph
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Object, Fishing, Fish Trap, Lobster Trap
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • Mount Desert Island
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Otter Creek Cove Photograph
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Fisherman's shack at Otter Creek Cove. Inscription on back reads "Fisherman's shack at Otter Creek Cove" in pencil and a stamp for LaRue Spiker is at the bottom right. Black and white