Structures, Civic, Cultural & Recreational Structures
Date:
1910-08
Place:
Bar Harbor
Description: Poster for the Bar Harbor Horse Show. Poster is a Charles W. Holmes Lithograph depicting a woman with a light blue bonnet holding a parasol and holding a horse's face to her own. The Horse is poking its head out of a circle in the blank background of the print. Text of the poster reads: "Bar Harbor Horse Show Aug. 23, 24, 25 1910" In the lower left hand corner is the phrase "When Thoroughbreds Meet" and above that, next to the parasol tip, is Holmes' signature "Chas. W. Holmes". [show more]
Description: Beige card with red illustration and black text. Advertisement for the roller skating rink in Bar Harbor. Illustration depicts two people in floppy hats holding onto rope. Top text in red reads: "The Sea! The Sea! The Beautiful, See?" Bottom black text reads: "Bar Harbor Roller Skating Rink, 'Not the Tent' Prices Reduced."
Description: Swearing in Certificate for Thursto, John as light keeper at Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse, 09/09/1858; Bass Harbor, Tremont, Hancock, Maine. He was the first lkight keeper after the lighthouse was built.
Description: Houses. Architectural and folk history. This updated 2018 report of investigation summarizes 2013-2017 research into nine Cape-style houses spawned by the 2013 discovery and repatriation of four ca. 1820-1830s shoes concealed in the chimney wall of the parsonage house of the Great Cranberry Congregational Church. The 2014 and 2018 revised report was submitted to the Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Acadia NPS, and GCIHS. Revised version is twenty-two pages with photos and bibliography as of January 18, 2018, and includes findings of a 2015 dendrochronology project. This study of the parsonage Cape-style house with its neighboring Cape-style houses and the separate 2013 study of the nearby ca. 1826 Preble house documents a cluster of historic island houses on the verge of becoming unrecognizable through remodeling. Research reveals folk practices, the oeuvre of local 19th-century house builders; Cape-style design innovations; granite and lumber sources; dendrochronology study; and early 19th-century Bulger and Spurling family histories. One of the cape houses was the birthplace of Civil War Medal of Honor General Andrew Barclay Spurling.; the Preble House was his boyhood home. See also concealed shoe research: 2013.252.1979. See 2018 Chebacco Magazine article, Concealed Shoes and Cape Houses: Artifacts as Agents of the Past by Anne Grulich [show more]
Description: Beige card with black text across entire face. Advertisement for Messrs. Battey and Hacker Tick and Fancy Skating at the Bar Harbor Casino on Wednesday, July 25th, 1883.