Description: Celebrated landscape architect, Beatrix Farrand commissioned a watercolor artist (unknown) to produce scenes of downtown Bar Harbor with her recommendations to the Village Improvement Association for beautifying the downtown with trellises, window boxes, plants, and flowers. Farrand's recommendations were never carried out. West End Drug building & delivery wagon on Main Street
Description: Celebrated landscape architect, Beatrix Farrand commissioned a watercolor artist (unknown) to produce scenes of downtown Bar Harbor with her recommendations to the Village Improvement Association for beautifying the downtown with trellises, window boxes, plants, and flowers. Farrand's recommendations were never carried out. Looking toward Cadillac Mt on Main Street and Stephen's Lane
Description: Sepia Photograph of Bar Harbor looking east over the village to the Porcupine Islands. The street in the foreground is Mount Desert Street. Update 6/19/21: According to Mr. Daniel Pyle (current organist/music-director at St. Saviour’s) this photograph, which shows the original church-building, must date from sometime after 1878 (when the first building was completed) and 1885, when building of the current structure must have started (it was completed in 1886). [show more]
Description: Nineteenth century lithographic view of Bar Harbor. Postcard is an invitation to an exhibit of the Boston Athenaeum collection held at the Wendell Gilley Museum in 1983.
Description: Canoes on the shore and yachts in the water at Bar Harbor on Mount Desert Island, ME. Inscription on the back reads "R. H. Hyson" in blue pen. Black and white
Description: A large rock balances against another on the shore in Bar Harbor, ME. Inscription on the back reads "R. H. Hyson" in blue pen and "Balance Rock". Black and white
Description: View of Bar Harbor, ME, from Bar Island. Tents of the indian camp are visible at the right, where the sand bar appears at low tide. Inscription on the back reads "R. H. Hyson" in blue pen and "Bar Harbor." Black and white
Description: Booklet containing photographs, architectural drawings of summer cottages in Bar Harbor, photographs & plans of house in Northeast Harbor. Photo 2104 a: Office of Fred L. Savage Photo 2104 b: "There is only one Bar Harbor" J. G. Blaine Photo 2104 c: The Louisburg, photo by Ernest Emery, 1902 Photo 2104 d: Bungalow near the Louisburg Photo 2104 e: Litte Louisburg Cottage Photo 2104 f: Hamilton Cottage Photo 2104 g: Tripp Cottage Photo 2104 h: Atlantean Photo 2104 i: Atlantean Photo 2104 j: Vista Cottage Photo 2104 k: Bar Harbor Cottage, photo by Emery Photo 2104 l: House of Fred L. Savage at Northeast Harbor Photo 2104 m: Fred Savage Cottage at Asticou, Northeast Harbor Photo 2104 n: Pot and Kettle Club House, near Bar Harbor Photo 2104 o: Dining room in a Bar Harbor cottage Photo 2104 p: Kebo Valley Club House, Bar Harbor Photo 2104 q: Devilstone, as remodelled by Fred L. Savage Photo 2104 r: The Gorge, between Newport and Dry Mountain near Bar Harbor Photo 2104 s: Sunset from the Bar Photo 2104 t: The Poplars, opposite Louisburg Hotel; owner Rufus E. Shapley, Philadelphia [show more]