Description: Varying sized of white paper with blue type. Larger sheet reads "Beatrix Farrand Landscape Gardener Reef Point Bar Harbor, Maine". Smaller sheets read "Reef Point Bar Harbor, Maine". Last pieces of stationary in which Farrand refers to herself as "Landscape Gardener".
The Max Farrand Memorial Fund, Bar Harbor, Maine. Copyright, 1953, by Reef Point Gardens Corporation.
Date:
1953-06
Place:
Bar Harbor
Description: Pamphlet titled "Reef Point Gardens Bulletin" published by the Max Farrand Memorial Fund, Bar Harbor Maine in June 1953. Vol. I, No. 10. Has a black and white image of a flower in a vase titled "Hybrid Tea Rose Innocence". Photograph by Sewall Brown.
Description: Framed newspaper article regarding actress Annette Kellerman and the 1952 movie "Million Dollar Mermaid" about Kellerman's life in which actress Esther Williams portrays Kellerman. Clipping has two photos, one showing Esther Williams and Annette Kellerman looking at a sketch of a Kellerman inspired bathing suit and the second photo depicts Williams in the bathing suit.
Description: Portrait of Mary Roberts Rinehart. Color print of painting by Howard Chandler Christy. Matted and framed in a gilded frame. Framed with portrait is an (unrelated) illustrated birthday card for Ted Faulkenstrom, Rinehart's chauffeur, signed "and much love, from Mary Roberts Rinehart".
Description: Four photographs. A= Hamor House with young man sailing model in foreground and whale bones on lawn: "Me sailing my play boat. Send back please. I love to sail xxx yet. Whale bones on lawn 110' long [illegible] Maine. Keep." B= View of Hamor dock. C= Boat "Red Wing laying at our dock, Cranberry Pool." D= Horse pulling a carriage "Old Prince." E= view of [Baker?] lighthouse.
Description: The Cleaves are related to Mrs. Hamor. A= Cleaves Reunion Sunday 9/26/54, with individuals numbered and IDd: 1: Sally Wile, 2: Janet Strout Hazelwood, 3: Jean Cleaves (Vaughn's daughter), 4: Marcia Cleaves, 5: Carla Hazelwood, 6: Bobby Hazelwood, 7: Judy Hazelwood, 8: Esther Strout, 9: Marcus Cleaves, "I took picture, 5 took other picture." B= second group photo of Cleaves reunion. C= "Uncle Mark Cleaves, Mum Hamor's brother, Found this old guy up to Borestone Mt. ME last July while visiting Margie and Rob, 79 years old." D= envelope that contained these small black & white photos addressed to: Mr. and Mrs. Hillard M. Hamor, 2023 Crescent Avenue, Charlotte, NC, Postmark Dec. 11, 1954. [show more]
Description: A photo of Bar Harbor grade school students attending school at temporary classrooms during construction of the new school building. Identified in photo: First row: John Higgins, Danny Bryard, Artie Young, unknown, unknown, Carl Runner, Donnie Farrell, unknow, Bob Buggell, Ginny Moore Second row: unknown, Sharon Foss, Diane Dickensen, Nancy Higgins, Patty Emery, Sharon Clough, Abbie Robinson, Martha Goodwin, Barbara Weymouth, Helen Bowker 3rd row: Alice Young, Jean Iverson, Ron Jordan, Roy Snell, Joan Jordan, Jun Power, Ann Dollicer, Barbara Grant, Joe Lafrance, unknown, Betty Robbins, Norma Wilbur, Raye Cunningham 4th Row: Crystal Emery, Patty Burr, Denice Smith, Richard Webber, Barbara Leighton, Bobby Jucius, Walter Hooper, Dick Savage, Bill Fenton, Ralph Colson, Jack Russell Back Row: Billy Salisbury, unknown, unknown, Sally Higgins, Susan Joyce, Mary Ingalls, Mary Cleaves, Philip Chase [show more]
Description: By George H. Taylor: Sea Going Policeman are Fisherman’s Friends ; part of LaRue Spiker Collection Previously archived as object id 013.FIC.30.32
Description: "Protege rabbit hunter" Bill Horner on the left holding two rabbits and the .410 shotgun that was given to him by Charlie Hayward. (See also the "Rabbit Feed" photo, item 74. The other young man is George Riddell, son of Jock Riddell who is also in the Rabbit Feed photo. It was a close-knit bunch and there were many boyhood memories of those times.