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| horse drawn buggy Tremont Historical Society |
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| Buckboard: wooden wheels with iron cladding made in Bar Harbor Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Buckboard: wooden wheels with iron cladding made in Bar Harbor Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Carriage. Buckboard, two beige upholstered bench seats with upholstered backs, and matching beige carpet floor mats, wooden whip holder, thin red lines painted as decoration on seat sides and other areas, brass tag reads: "Davis B.H. B.C. Bar Harbor, Me". Wooden wheels with iron cladding. From the old barn at the Red House - the Towns/Lim house. Willie Granston December 2016: "…. The buckboard is in really good condition…. I know of only two Davis Buckboards on MDI, and neither is this model. One is privately owned by Martha Stewart, and one is a really sweet little 2 seater with a rear groomsman's seat owned by Bar Harbor Historical Society and kept at Seal Cove Auto Museum. The buckboard at Seal Cove is missing its bottom cushion, and Martha's has been reupholstered, so those cushions, with the flaps, are super important. ...This is really important object." The Living Past,Virginia Somes-Sanderson p. 229: "People came in droves from Bar Harbor, some in their private carriages, often with coachmen and footmen, others in hired vehicles, but the majority in buckboards. These riding conveyances had rows of seats, all facing front; the largest carried fifteen persons, but theer were others built for ten, seven, five, four and two passengers ... Unfortunately, the tax on them became so high that the owners could not make them pay, so they disappeared from the scene." The donor recalls: "The buckboard has been there all my life. I'm quite sure it came with the property. I would imagine it's been there since the Crosbys owned the barn-- if not before. I believe that they owned it around 1915 because there was a drawing of a heart on a barn stall shutter with one of the Crosby boys' names and some girl's name and the date, I think it was 1915. As children, my friends and I used to play "Wagon Train" (an old, old TV show) on it. I was always Flint McCullough. He was my favorite, played by the actor, Robert Horton. Ward Bond played the Wagonmaster on TV. Whoever played his part on the buckboard would wave their arm forward and yell. "Wagons---ho !" We were all girls, as I recall, (I do remember pitching apples at and with Clayton Savage and Dickie Haydock but I don't think we let them play Wagon Train.)" See also http://www.skylinefarm.org/carriage-museum, Slide 9. [show more] | |||
| Women with Horse and Carriage Photograph Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  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 | |||
| Photo Album Islesford Historical Society |
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| Horse-drawn "Pung" Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Buckboard with Driver & Ladies Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Buckboard with Driver & Ladies Great Harbor Maritime Museum | |||
| Buckboard Party to The Caves Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Buckboard Party to The Caves Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Toot 'N' Be Darned Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Toot 'N' Be Darned Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: American Horse Breeder Publishing Co. postcard with hand written local inscription Number 5903. According to Jeff Beaumont, the car in the illustration is a 1906 Rambler. "In Mt. Desert, Tremont and Southwest Harbor nearly all the voters have signed the petitions while in the town of Eden [Bar Harbor] more than half of the voters have signed and a number of names are being added to the list each day. As is well known, practically every summer visitor to the island favors the absolute prohibition of automobiles on the island. The island of Mt. Desert is a dead end, so to speak, and an automobile could cover the whole island in a few hours, making no incentive for a prolonged stay. Yet a great deal of damage could be accomplished in a few hours in such a place as this where practically the entire summer population passes a large portion of each day in driving. The horses are not city broke and the numerous accidents that have already occurred here through the use of autos furnish a good specimen of what would happen were their use more common." - The Bar Harbor Record, December 30, 1908, quoted in the Bar Harbor Times, “Times Past” column by Deborah Dyer, January 1, 2009 See SWHPL 7484 for a photograph of Simeon "Sim" Holden Mayo breaking the rules and driving his automobile in Bar Harbor in 1908. [show more] | ||
| A Buckboarding Party at the Bluffs - Echo Lake Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  A Buckboarding Party at the Bluffs - Echo Lake Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The buckboard is stopped on the road between Southwest Harbor and Somesville, now Route 102. The view is looking west across Echo Lake to Beach Cliffs. | |
| Viola A. Marshall Murphy - Mrs. John Tyler Murphy and Children Shopping in Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Viola A. Marshall Murphy - Mrs. John Tyler Murphy and Children Shopping in Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The Murphys were in Southwest Harbor, shopping on Clark Point Road. Perry "Ped" L. Sargent's livery stable is on the left and R.M. Norwood's carpentry shop is the large building at the back of the photograph. Marjorie is bringing her little brother a cookie. | ||
| A Buckboarding Party at the Bluffs - Echo Lake Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  A Buckboarding Party at the Bluffs - Echo Lake Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Notice the elaborate hat worn by the lady in the front seat! The buckboard is stopped on the road between Southwest Harbor and Somesville, now Route 102. The view is looking west across Echo Lake to Beach Cliffs. | |
| Buckboard Party with Driver in Derby Hat Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Buckboard Party with Driver in Derby Hat Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Kathlyn L. Murphy Reed and Rev. and Mrs. Atwood and Baby on Buckboard Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Kathlyn L. Murphy Reed and Rev. and Mrs. Atwood and Baby on Buckboard Southwest Harbor Public Library |
