Description: High quality "Savoy" toilet paper from Malvern Hotel; stack of flat sheets; package is white with navy blue lettering; manufactured in Boston and New York by Stone & Forsyth
Description: Watercolor painting of the summer cottage "Bass Cottage" with a dedication on the lower left which reads: "Love Roy and Helene" and has the artist signature "Hallowell" on the lower right.
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: Red leather case and silver cigarette case inscribed on outside "Ensign Alessandro Fabbri U.S. N. R.F". Inside are 5 hand-rolled cigarettes and an inscription that reads "We transmit to you this wireless message of our boundless love and confidence. Christmas 1917. 'the Boys' the Otter Cliffs Radio Station".
Description: Headset/earphones worn in radio station by wireless operators when sending and receiving signals at U.S. Naval Radio Station at Otter Cliff. See matching set 43b, ID #53.
Description: Parchment drawings of interior floor plans of the Geyelin House, "Copper Beeches." This was labeled previously as the Gilley house. See also Item 2514
Description: Parchment drawing, 72x44", of basement and three upper level floor plans of house ("The Birches") on Sargeant Drive listed first as Yarnall, second as Kent. It is now called "Gulls Way". See also Item 2313
Description: Dedication ceremony of old Trenton Bridge. Crowd seated in foreground (where visitor's center is now) marching band on bridge. Radio tower in background.
Description: Dedication ceremony of old Trenton Bridge. Crowd standing watching unknown man give speech. Photograph looking east from Thompson's Island. (MAN 18)
Description: Dedication ceremony of old Trenton Bridge. Crowd standing on Thompson's island. Barn and farmhouse where Visitor's Center now is. (MAN 17)
Description: Dedication ceremony of old Trenton Bridge. Crowd standing near shore, looking west toward Bayside in Trenton. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
Description: Dedication ceremony of old Trenton Bridge. Crowd seated in foreground (where visitor's center is now) marching band on bridge. Radio tower in background. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
Description: Folder 1 Glimpses of Camden, Maine, 1904, J. R. Prescott, 116 pages. Glimpses of Camden On the Coast of Maine, 1916, John R. Prescott, 1 volume (unpaged): all illustrations. Folder 2 A Souvenir of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island, Maine, 190?, W. H. Sherman, 68 pages : chiefly illustrations. Folder 3 (not yet scanned) Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island, 1888, William Berry Lapham, 72 pages: illustrations. Folder 4 Unidentified book about Maine homes and churches in the early days, commentary about home design, coastal living, farming, and general livelihood. 32 pages missing covers. Folder 5 The Summer State of Maine, Holman D. Waldron and Harry D. Young, ca. 1893, Tourist booklet in the shape of the state of Maine; cover illustration is map of Maine, 24 pages. Folder 30 Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island, by W. B. Lapham, 1887. Folder 31 Looking at Katahdin, the artists' inspiration, booklet about exhibit at L.C. Bates Museum, 1999. Folder 32 (scan from digitalmaine.com) Maine, the sesquicentennial of statehood, exhibition in the Library of Congress, 1970-1971, booklet. Folder 33 The Maine I Remember by Sidney Urquhast, article from Vogue Magazine, August 2000. Includes a photo of Walter Damrosch (Sidney's grandfather). Folder 43 Penzance in Maine: In Old Acadia, by F. W. Shumaker, 1927. Illustrations by S. Garnett Goesle and Herbet R. Roese. Folder 47 Northeast Harbor Port Directory, 1993. Folder 50 There is only one Bar Harbor - A few of its beautiful spots, by Ernest Emery, 1902. Folder 51 Mount Desert on the coast of Maine, by Mrs. Clara Barnes Martin, 1870 (very fragile) [show more]
Description: Built in 1900 by Fred Savage for George Savage as rental. Renamed Fiddler's Green by Clement McGillicuddy. It is now called Summerhouse. See also Item 2478
Description: Knowles Co. drawing of one of the Harborside cottages for sale or rent. It was built for George A. Savage (brother of Fred Savage). It used to be "Fiddler's Green", now it is called "Summerhouse". See also Item 4755
Description: Storefronts on Main Street in Northeast Harbor, Maine. The Street Façade drawing by architect Perry Benson represents the commercial life of Northeast Harbor on the west side of Main Street at the end of the 1988 season. See attachment No. 1 for more details.
Description: Northeast Harbor Folder 12 The Rock End Hotel, booklet published by C. B. Webster & Co., Boston. undated, 16 pages, illustrations and descriptions of MDI and the hotel. Seal Harbor Folder 13 The Glen Cove, Seal Harbor, brochure about the house and surrounding area, includes map of the island, undated. Folder 14 Seaside Inn, Seal Harbor, brochure, ca. 1952; Seaside Inn, Seal Harbor, brochure, undated Folder 15 Seaside Inn Menus, 1895 Bar Harbor Folder 16 Edenbrook Motel, Bar Harbor, brochure, ca. 1962. Folder 17 Wonderview Motor Lodge, Bar Harbor, brochure, ca. 1965. Folder 18 Hotel Bar Harbor, brochure, ca. 1952. Folder 19 The Van Doren Cottage at Hulls Cove, Bar Harbor, sale brochure, undated (1914, courtesy of J. B. Dyer). Folder 20 Redwood, Bar Harbor, sketch by John Calvin Stevens, brochure, 1992. Folder 21 Lawrence House, Bar Harbor, printed copy of sketch, September 17, 1883 Mainland Maine. Folder 54 Inn at Canoe Point, brochure, 1987 Southwest Harbor Folder 55 The Island House, bed & breakfast inn on Mount Desert Island, brochure Isle au Haut Folder 56 Union Congregational Church of Isle au Haut, Maine, 1857-1957, booklet, 20 pages. Mainland Maine Folder 22 Grindstone Inn, Winter Harbor. 2 brochures: the first ca. early 1900's, the second 1952. Folder 23 Woodlawn/Black House in Ellsworth: Maine's most interesting mansion, an example of Georgian architecture preserved with original furnishings. 5 brochures. Folder 24 Gouldsboro land improvement company's Grindstone inn and lands, Winter Harbor, 1891, 38 unnumbered pages illustrations. Folder 25 Washington Normal School at Machias Maine Fred L. Savage Architect, printed copy of sketch. Folder 49 “Old Wiscasset”, booklet. Historical data compiled by William Davis Patterson, August 1931. Printed by “The Times Co.”, Bath, Maine. Folder 57 Stanwood Homestead Museum, Ellsworth, Maine. Established 1960. A living memorial to Cordelia J. Stanwood. Brochure with map of Birdsacre Sanctuary. Folder 58 Historic Lewiston: A self-guided tour of our history, architecture and culture, brochure of historic buildings and sites with map, 2001. Folder 59 It must be Maine Architectural Trail, booklet about the architecture of Maine's small towns and villages, 16 pages. [show more]
Description: Blueprints, 22x17", of one exterior view and three level floor plans of an unidentified house in Northeast Harbor. Scale 1/8" = 1'-0". See also Item 1032
Description: A photo of the original Acadia national park headquarters in downtown Bar Harbor, before it was moved to the COA campus to serve as the Dorr Museum.
Description: Photographic print of Roc Caivano and students building a solar-heated student shop. This building was designed and constructed by staff and students on the Environmental Design Curriculum. It is now called the B&G Shop.
Description: Original card painted by Margaret Herrison Doane ("Daisy") for her aunt Mary Spring Perkins, Christmas 1881 from which the window in St. Mary's-by-the-Sea, Northeast Harbor, was done.
Description: B/W winter photograph of Main Street, Northeast Harbor shops: Mount Desert Tweeds (now Sam Shaw's Jewelers) and the Western Union Building (originally Elrie Holmes store, now the Romantic Room).
Description: BOX 1 (record carton box) The Redbooks, 1912-2020 (missing 1913, 1917, 1918, 1948). Now called The Redbook--originally called Directory and Hand Book--these social registers list residents and their contact information, cottage locations and owners, businesses, various transportation schedules, tide charts, advertisements, and important phone numbers. The first book published in 1912 by Stella L. Hill was green, all the rest are red. The Redbook celebrated its 100 anniversary in 2012 and is still produced to this day. [show more]
Description: Three real photo postcards of Bear Island Lighthouse affixed to a repurposed envelope. On all of the postcards the lighthouse is identified using blue ink. One postcard bears the additional inscription: "Our view from the point." The backside of this paper was at one time the exterior of envelope sent on June 4, 1945. Information about the sender and recipient can still be read. The return address has been cut, but the envelope was sent to Mrs. Edwin Corning, Northeast Harbor, Maine. Mrs. Corning spent her summers on a point at the mouth of Northeast Harbor [show more]
Description: Advertising booklet of the Rock End Hotel and its cottages. Several exterior photographs of the hotel, the surrounding areas and the island are included, as well as floor plans of the buildings.
Description: Asticou Inn and Cottages, Northeast Harbor, Mount Desert Island, Maine. Advertising booklet of the Asticou Inn and its cottages. Several exterior and interior photographs of the inn, the surrounding buildings and areas and of the island are included.
Description: Left to Right: Judith “Judy” May Carroll (1935-), later Mrs. Joseph T. Stockbridge Jr. Nancy Eleanor Stanley (1934-2022), later Mrs. Raymond Eugene Robbins, Jr. Irene Mabel Stanley (1933-), later Mrs. Carol Carter Murphy Myrna Lorraine Stanley (1942-2022), later Mrs. Karl Julius Ritterskamp Sally Camilla Carroll (1933-), later Mrs. Harold Alan Fernald Jr. Nancy Jane Carroll (1936-), later Mrs. Joseph Mello Cynthia Farnham Carroll (1937-2005), later Mrs. Robert Allen Aikman III Esther Laverne Stanley (1936-1984), later Mrs. Michael Willis The children are sitting on the lawn of the Adoniram Judson Robinson house at 376 Main Street, Southwest Harbor, watching a moving van at the Arthur L. Somes house across the street. [show more]
Description: View of the lobby of the Asticou Inn with numerous small rugs scattered across the floor. 4 rocking chairs facing a fireplace. Desk with chair.
Description: Photos and assortment of clippings. 21 photographs of people, boats, structures, from Addie Duren's time, given to GCIHS by her son Ron Mountain, some with IDs written on reverse: A=Adline Bunker; B= Ernest Stanley In Service, First World War; C=Alfred Ladd passed away in first world war by a bomb. D=Addie must be going someplace. All dressed up in my Brothers clothes. E=Winfield Stanley; F=Omer Mountain In USN; G=Eliza Stanley; H=Addie Duren. Photos I-M=people no IDs (except deerhunter photo is marked 1940. Photos N-R=boats have no IDs except N (upper right corner)=First boat Raymond B. ever built. Photos of buildings S=Aid building/barn; T=GCI Church; U=Velma Teel's house in the snow. V-ZZ=Newspaper clippings: improved lobster pot design 1956, witticisms, and children' games. AA-CC= handwritten songs and a note. [show more]
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: Folder 6 A Map of Mount Desert Island, issued by the Mt. Desert Chamber of Commerce, 1938. Illustrations and descriptive text on verso. Folder 6a A Map of Mount Desert Island, issued by the Chamber of Commerce of Bar Harbor, Mount Desert and Southwest Harbor, 1950. Illustrations and descriptive text on verso. Folder 7 The Maine Art Museum Trail, map and brochure listing museums around Maine, 2015. Folder 8 Blueprint with first and second floor plans for George S. Talcott house at Seal Harbor, ME, Clayton B. Roath, undated. Folder 40 Map of Seal Harbor. Folder 45 (no image) Architectural Drawing: blueprints of “Cedar Cliff”, house of G. L. Stebbins, Seal Harbor, Maine (very fragile). [show more]
Description: Postcards: 61. Bar Harbor Panoramic 62. Sargent Drive and Somes Sound, ca. 1920's (Chas. A. Townsend) 63. Birches, Harbourside, Northeast Harbor, Maine 64. Asticou 65. Seal Harbor, Maine 66. Surf on the rocks, Bar Harbor, ME 67. Bear Island Light, Northeast Harbor, ME (Paul A. Knaut) 68. South Bubble Mountain at the North end of Jordan Pond (A.D. Phillips) 69. Surf at Seal Harbor, Mount Desert Island, Maine 70. Mount Desert from Islesford, ME (1952) 71. Hotel Florence and Village Green, Bar Harbor, ME 72. Kimball House, Northeast Harbor, ME 73. Bar Harbor Airport, Trenton, ME (A, D. Phillips) 74. Path of the Total Eclipse of the Sun in the State of Maine July 20th 1963 5:45pm 75. The flashing red light at Bass Harbor Head, Maine (A. D. Phillips) 76. Captain Jim Sharp's "Adventure" from Camden, Maine (A. D. Phillips) 77. Across the Bay of Fundy 78. Jordan Pond House, Seal Harbor, ME (Chas. A. Townsend) 79. Steamer Norumbega from Mount Desert Ferry to Manset, ME 80 (a+b) Islehurst, Mount Desert Bridge 81. Great Head, Bar Harbor, Maine 82. Thunder Hole Surf, Mt. Desert, Maine 83. Atlantic Comber, Mount Desert Island, Maine 84. Boat Shop at Bass Harbor, Mount Desert Island, Maine 85. Bar Harbor and Porcupines from Cadillac Mt. 86. Bar Harbor and mountains 87. Fishing boats at Southwest Harbor, Maine 88. Fishing boats at Manset wharf 89. Fishing craft at Southwest Harbor, Maine 90. Appalachian Mt Club, Echo Lake Camp 91. The Rockbound Coast 92 (a+b) Bass Harbor Lighthouse, Mount Desert Island, Maine 93. Congregational Church, Cranberry Isle, Maine (1907) 94. Surf, Mount Desert Island, Maine 95 (a-e) Entrance to Somes Sound 96. Southwest Harbor from Manset Shore 97 (a+b) Jesup Memorial Library, Bar Harbor, Maine 98. Rock End Hotel, Northeast Harbor, Maine 99. Webster's Cafe, Bar Harbor Rd., Trenton, Maine (1949) 100. Greetings from Bar Harbor 101. Steamer Norumbega, Bar Harbor, Maine 102. The Lobster House, Bar Harbor Rd., Trenton, Maine (1940) 103. Christmas Wreath (by Mildred Gilley, Northeast Harbor, Maine) 104. Man in raincoat (I. T. Moore) 105. Steamer Gov. Bodwell in Vinalhaven harbor 106 (a+b) Bar Harbor and mountains 107. Jordan Pond, Mount Desert, Maine (Chas. A. Townsend) 108. Stereoview Schooner Head 109. Stereoview Green Mt. House, Mount Desert 110. Stereoview Mount Desert Scenery 111. Glimpse of Frenchman’s Bay from Cadillac Mountain Summit Road, Bar Harbor, Maine 112. Kimball House, Northeast Harbor, Maine 113. Church of the Redeemer and Aniscott, Sorrento, Maine 114. J. T. Morse steamer leaving Bar Harbor for Rockland, Maine 115. Abbe Museum, Sieur de Monts Springs 116. Blue Hill Inn, Blue Hill, Maine 117. Maplecroft Cabins - Route 3, Bar Harbor, Maine 118. Bay Meadow Bungalows - Bar Harbor, Maine Updated August 5th, 2023 [show more]
Description: Enlarged reprint of an old view of Cranberry Road (perhaps a postcard view) with a mask identifying buildings along the road. Probably identified 1982 or later by someone who knew Tud Bunker (Doc Haydock?).
Description: A= Postcard photo of Old Stanley home (now Rome/Glazer house) with note: "Nettie Stanley Residents" (sic) Shows the old store to the left, rear of house. B= Birlem fish house on the Pool. C= Town dock and Birlem fish house and little bait house. D= Postcard photo of GCI Post Office (orig photo was by J.G. Towns, Holbrook, MA). E= Bunker dock in the Pool with workers. F= Evergreen trees at dawn with caption "Just a dawn." G= Photo of interior of a home. H= Christmas card photo of Nativity scene an sleigh with reindeer with note that ceramics were made for Florence and Herbert Towns. [show more]
Description: Light fixture. Glass globe from donor's kitchen ceiling light with connections and cap. White glass with two blue lines and pale blue band between them; brass base is painted beige.
Description: Red Cross station wagon pulling a trailer on Main Street, Northeast Harbor. In background are: Knowles Co., Ash House, Odd Fellows Hall, and Gilman High School. (May have been providing food for firemen in Oct. 1947.)
Description: Historic Ruggles House is shown before and after renovations. Also phogoraph of a mantle. Included is an excerpt of the book "Historic Churches and Homes of Maine" (1937) about the "Home of Thomas Ruggles" by Percia V. White.
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: Wooden sign painted white with orange, stencilled letters: "SIX PERSON RAMP LIMIT. BIKES LEFT ON DOCK WILL BE SET IN OCEAN". This boat ramp sign was made and used by Tud Bunker.
Description: Photo. Negative and 11"x14" photo of Lewis (Lew) Stanley's boatyard located on the pool during the wintertime with the pool frozen. The boatyard was later sold to Heliker and LaHotan and they tore it down because it was a hazard and in rough shape. Mickey Macfarlan who said that towards the end of his life Lew Stanley was hard up for money and could no longer repair the boatyard. Mickey said Lew was always complaining that people were stealing from the boatyard - the second floor of it was chock full of all sorts of things. Mickey mentioned that the boatyard itself was "tremendously large" [show more]
Description: Shoes. A collection of the remains of late 19th-century leather shoes discovered in the kitchen crawlspace during the 2013 remodeling of the Great Cranberry Congregational Church parsonage house (177 Cranberry Road). Twenty soles or pieces of soles and two heel uppers with soles missing; remains of nine high boots with eyelets (some brass eyelets in-situ); and twenty leather shoe scraps. All shoe remains are leather, all soles are double- or single- row wood-pegged. [show more]
Description: Drawing by S.G. Easter or Caster? pencil sketch of the Hamor Tea House; some water staining on the edges. Painting removed from original frame (a glass pane with metal rosettes securing it to a wood board back). Original sketch stored separately; scanned print of the drawing is in frame.
Description: The Old Homestead, a poem by E.T. Preble., reminisces about the Preble house on GCI and all the lives now past. The author of the poem is most likely Elmenia Thompson Spurling, b. 19 Aug 1840, who married first Ezra Carroll, then William Henry Preble. Elmenia had four children by Preble, one being Abby Lizzie Preble, b. 25 Sep 1865, d. 24 Dec 1901 in Chicago. (Statement at bottom of poem connects author to GCI Preble house.)
Description: Three copies of a photograph (5"x4") of a house (probably not on GCI) with inscriptions: To Benj H. Spurling and wife From Ezra and Aunt Min; Christmas Greetings to Benj H. Spurling from Ezra and Aunt Min Dec. 25, 1920; and Christmas Greetings to Wade Marr and family from Ezra and Aunt Min. (B): Photograph of a different house 6"x4" with people standing on porch (no inscription on reverse): Per Willie Granston this house with gingerbread trim is on Islesford, just beyond the church, on the left. (This house appears in the Islesford postcard that GCIHS has, with the church in the background.) [show more]
Description: Postcard photos (A) a house on Islesford with message on reverse to Frances (Marr?) dated 1918, and (B) an unknown house with two people on porch (no message).
Description: Archaeological fragments. Collection of ceramic sherds; white clay pipestem fragments; doll parts, and small finds. Collection of artifacts recovered by donor 1970s-1990s from his property - the historic William Pitt Preble house built ca. 1827. Items donor recovered outside behind the kitchen include sherds of brown, green, purple, red, and blue underglaze printed wares (one "Indian Tomb" pattern (ca. 1830)). Some printed ware sherds with scalloped and some with smooth edges, most are of buff paste and white on reverse. Blue, green, and white edged earthenwares. One sherd underglaze blue, sponge or splatter pattern. One sherd blue/grey stoneware. Four white clay pipe stem fragments measured by donor 2013/2014 and remeasured 2015. Doll's arm marked 'Germany' = 0.093". Small finds: larger doll arm; blue cut glass bead, pocket watch key, tiny wood button, fragment of small metal collar, fragment of what may be a bone toothbrush head. (See also 2017.386.2161 for research materials.) [show more]
Description: Otter Creek from western shore. Shows wooden bridge, Russian Tea Room to right of trees above water. Farm dates from 1880's. Collected for "Mount Desert: an Informal History". Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
Description: Photographer Eleanor R. Mayo lived with Ruth Moore whose sister, Esther Moore Trask's father-in-law was George Washington Trask, another brother of William S. Trask, hence thee title of the photograph, "Aunt Belle's House."
Description: Northeast Harbor's town dock with yachts and work boats moored in the harbor and, in distance, a sail boat race. Clifton dock is right center.
Description: Black and white sepia tone photo of the 1902 graduating class of the Emerson Grammar School. 21 students in three rows. Identified in photo: Ruby Shaw Frank Richards Harley Suminsby Walter Lynch Marguerite Higgins (Giles) Delia Higgins Rupert Jellison Helen Parker (Hamor) Ralph S Clark Hazel Foster (?) Fida Pray (Guthrie) James Marcyer Blanche Deary (Hodgkins) Mina Marshall Isaiah Haymen Willian Austin Nellie Ask (Leonard) Manor Smith (Walls) Lena Whitaker (Potter) William P. Newman [show more]
Description: A photo of students attending the kindergarten school for summer residents of Bar Harbor at the Albert Meadow Clearfield Cottage. Identified in photo: Beatrice Chandler Alice Whiting Alice Damrosch Bill and Margaret Schieffelin Hester Chanler Maurice Fremont-Smith Julia Whiting Alice Eastman
Description: A photo of grades 1-4 at the Forest St. School in Bar Harbor. Identified in photo: Shirley Brewer (2nd row - 3rd from left) Henry Soper (3rd row - 6th from left) Lotti Brewer Ells (3rd row - 7th from left) Phoebe Marshall (3rd row - 4th from left) Byron Brewer (2nd row - 2nd from left)
Description: A photo of the class of 1928 at the Eden Central School in Salisbury Cove. Taught by Sarah Hadley King. Identified in photo: H. Clinton Smith Jr. Gladys Colson Clara Elliot Ruth Leland Allen Wilson Lewis King Reginald King Eleta Elliott Mary Frances Andrews Nowell Alley Harland Leland Carroll Stanley
Description: Company thermometer set into a frame between two landscape paintings and with the writing "Bar Harbor Banking and Trust Company Bar Harbor, Maine Lubec Northeast Harbor Southeast Harbor".
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.
Description: The photographer and date are unknown, but judging from the gasoline pumps at the end of the wharf, the photo could be as early as the 1920s.
Description: A rare view of the Stanley House from the water. The shoreline with water, rocks, and trees are in the foreground with the only the roof and upper stories of the hotel visible in the backbround.
Description: Interior photographs of the former Northeast Harbor Library building, a few years before its demolition. Courtesy of Norvell Bullock (2023).
Description: Atricle about the Masonic Lodge in 1860s. Article contains notes from Captain Pray about traveling over the ice to get from one location to the other
Description: Article about the Mount Desert Island Society Strawberry Festival. From the Bar Harbor Times July 22, 1976. Previously archived as 011.FIC.57.3
Description: Five articles glued to a piece of white paper. One side Society Delays Action on Museum from the Bangor Daily News August 15, 1980 about the vote to defer action on building a new museum building pending more information. Second article on the same side Historical Society Still Undecided as to Type of Building to Erect from the Ellsworth American August 21, 1980. Other side Editorial from the Bar Harbor Times August 21, 1980 about the need for a new museum. Bangor Daily 8/6/1985 Notice about the upcoming annual meeting of the Mount Desert Historical Society. Bar Harbor Times, August 21, 1980 Historical Society Urges Building Decision Soon about the need for a new museum building. Previously archived as 011.FIC.57.3 [show more]
Description: From the Ellsworth American August 5, 1982. This is an excerpt from the book Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast: Penobscot and blue Hill Bays. Talks about the earliest name of the island, who John Robinson was, other people who claimed the island. geneology of the Tinkers, commercial activity on Tinker Island.
Description: Article on three pieces of paper about Mount Desert Island History; Native American History, small outer islands, Sutton's Island, Joseph Moore, Joseph Lancaster, Isaac Richardson, William and Joseph Moore, John Gilley
Description: The Callendar House was the first summer cottage built of brick in Bar Harbor. When this photograph was taken in 2016, the Jackson Lab owned this structure which is located on the Schooner Head Road just outside of Bar Harbor. The history of Bar Harbor is the history of the rich and famous and the story of the Callendar House fits right into this history. The imposing “cottage” was built in 1901 for Mrs. John Callendar Livingston, a member of the prominent and incredibly prosperous Livingston family, by Fredrick Savage. The structure was Savage’s most formal design and also the most expensive (partly because just before it was completed in 1901, the entire building burnt leading to a near complete rebuilding). Savage, himself, was a native of Northeast Harbor and the vast majority of his work consisted of cottages and hotels, showing the rise of Bar Harbor’s place as a “summer colony”. Savage built cottages in many styles including several prominent Queen Anne and Shingle Style structures showcasing the dominant design trends of the late 19th century and early 20th century. The Callendar House, however, can be seen as firmly colonial revival in design and was the first summer “cottage” built with brick. At the time of its construction it was praised by the Bar Harbor Record for both its refinement and its modernity. In 1992, the Callendar House was purchased by the Jackson Lab at a foreclosure auction. (Source: Maine Preservation). [show more]
Description: 4 blueprints, 5 blueprints stapled, 7 drawings loose. Gabled house with patterned shingles, columned piazza. Used by John Manchester III Inn. Stacy B. Lloyd, 1993. See also 0073 FLS (item 1072) and GHC 357 (item 2562)
Description: Slides taken in conjunction with the 1999 Maine Historic Preservation Commission (MHPC), Historic Building/Structure surveys of Southwest Harbor. The slides have not been scanned.
Description: "At inn overlooking the sea, tradition has a capital T" from The Globe and Mail - September 21, 1994 "Claremont spruces up for another century" from The Bar Harbor Times - August 18, 1994 "Visitor's guide to a lush Maine isle" from The New York Sunday Times -August 9, 1989 A write up by Charles C. Calhoun in MAINE - 1994 "An escape to Acadia Park when the crowds have gone" in The Inquirer "Edwardian Elegance, Regal Comfort" in The Times Record - August 30, 2002 [show more]
Description: According to Earl Brechlin, the location of the cabins appears to be just east of Little Harbor Brook between Seal Harbor and Northeast Harbor. The view is looking towards the southwest from the hill on the north side of Route 3. If you zoom in above the place you can just make out the bridge over the stream which is tidal at that point. The little island fits with topos of the area. There's a large estate there now. The back of the card indicates that the cabins were owned by Arthur and Evelyn Gibbs. [show more]
Description: Four 34x28.5" and two smaller blueprints of floor plans and exterior elevations of the W. Barton Eddison Cottage "Cove End", later owned by Mrs. Vincent Astor.
Description: Some of the items in this uncurated accession are in: Item 16625 - Newspaper Clippings featuring the Claremont Hotel Item 16568 - The Claremont Hotel 100th Anniversary Party
Description: One of the photos is a Christmas card from H. R. Beal and Sons, Inc. signed Harvard & Elva. Another shows what appears to be construction of the wharf during the early 1900s judging by the pickup truck in the background.
Description: Beals Lobster Wharf Photographs Above - Beals Lobster Wharf – probably new 1932-1935 construction Three Sisters with staysail? Other Images: 1 - 36’ Newman 5 - Town Dock – Bait truck backed over the edge 6 - Doug Sr. 8 - Sandy Sandra Jellison Sullivan and Rosie 9 - Left to right: Sandra Sullivan, Elmer Buzzy Beal, Harold Beal, Douggy Beal, Sam Beal, unknown man in back. 10 - Vessel MS4909W – Raymond Bunker boat? 11 - Crew 1996 – includes Patti Tinker, Danielle Pelletier, Rose Gray. Photographer: Robin Farrin 12 - Carlton Smith photograph 18 - Samuel Wayne Beal aka Sam (1945-2011) and Molly shoveling snow Winter 2000-2001 19 - August 1998 29 - Sam Beal and aftermath of the truck accident at the wharf. The green gray boat is the “The Lost Airman” belongs to Andy May Barge behind is the "Charles Bradley" Bass Harbor owned by Wilfred M. Minctons (1962-). Charles Bradley Construction Company barge Capt. "Wid" Minctons. He specializes in Marine Construction and repair. 30 - Phase I almost completed 31 - Phase I completed – view from Coast Guard side 32 - Phase I completed – Shows “The Gangplank” & Coast Guard housing 33 - Phase I completed – Shows “The Gangplank” & Coast Guard housing 34 - August 1998 – beginning Phase I 35 - Harbor side before remodel 36 - Phase I completed. Summer 2000 “A hole like a missing tooth. Buildings built in 1932-1935 are gone.” – Sam Beal 37 - Phase II - Beginning demolition 38 - Phase II - Beginning demolition 39 - Phase I completed – shows new harbor side landing 40 - Phase I – end completed – tearing up the wharf for the restaurant pavilion 41 - Winter 2000-2001 – remodel half done – looking toward Clark Point Road – new restaurant pavilion on left – old bldg on right 42 - Maggie Dalzell and Bud Higgins in the kitchen – c. 1983-1986 43 - Wendy Dolliver – Melissa and Don Walls – 1985 Wendy P. Dolliver (1967-) ? Donald W. Walls (1953-) ? Melissa Walls – daughter ? 44 - Beals Wharf – c. 1981 45 - Beals Wharf – c. 1981 46 - 715 lb Tuna, Caught July 29, 1955, Francis Fernald and son Jerry, Francis Griffen Fernald (1909-1999) ?Gerard F. Fernald (1937-) ? Photographer W.H. Ballard 47-51 - 1992 – Moving Captain’s Galley and other bldg 52-53 - 1992 – Extending and rebuilding the wharf 54 - 1997 – sent a trap to this child’s school class 55 - Harold Beal 56 - August 1972 58 - Mac Pettigrow, Thurman Berry on left, Buzz Beal in back 59 - Buzz Beal 60 - Thurman Berry 61 - Thurman Berry older 62 - Shirley Phippen 63 - Retail sales – September 1988 65 - 1977 – Remodel 66 - 1977 – Coast Guard side 1932-1935 building – ready for hot top 67 - 1977 – Remodel 1932-1935 building racks on rough are fish flake 68 - Sunday, August 1977 – Minutes after opening, 1932-1935 building rebuilt 69 - 1977 remodel 72 - Stephen Brooks - 1997 73 - Ronald Warren’s boats at float, Mike Gilley on ramp, Summer 1982 74 - Bookkeeper Helen 75 - Sam Beal 80 - Edward M. – Bass Harbor – Old Underwood factory? 81 - Medric at SW Boat – Hornet at end of dock, Buzz Beal in rowboat? 83 - Picking shrimp 84-87 - 1932-1935 building goes down Phase I Construction – end of dock – probably 1998 Phase II Construction – restaurant and sales area - 2002 [show more]