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| Beatrix Farrand Reef Point Stationary Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Beatrix Farrand Reef Point Stationary Bar Harbor Historical Society 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". | |
| "Reef Point Gardens Bulletin" Pamphlet Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  "Reef Point Gardens Bulletin" Pamphlet Bar Harbor Historical Society 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. | |
| Engraved Floral Scissors Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Engraved Floral Scissors Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Decoratively engraved metal scissors owned by Beatrix Farrand. | |
| Max Farrand Portrait Photograph Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Max Farrand Portrait Photograph Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Small brown leather folding portfolio with a black and white portrait of Max Farrand, husband of Beatrix Farrand. | |
| Bar Harbor Gardening Club Silver Award Plate Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Bar Harbor Gardening Club Silver Award Plate Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Silver plate gifted to the Bar Harbor gardening club by Beatrix Farrand to be the award for the best single roses category, then given to Mary Hodgkins as an prize for her single rose. Text engraved on plate reads: "A gift to the Bar Harbor Garden Club from Beatrix Farrand owner of Reef Point Gardens An award to be given annually for the best exhibit of Single Roses 1953" | |
| Hamor Telescope, Case and Letter Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Hamor Telescope, Case and Letter Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Wood and metal telescope (.03) and wood case (.01) presented to Captain Richard Hamor for assisting the British ship "Dominica" when it had caught fire on August 3rd, 1860. Corresponding letter(.02) is from the Royal Admiralty explaining the incident and how Richard Hamor and Aaron S. Lanfor both were awarded telescopes in thanks for their help. It is addressed to R.W. Gillen and dated 8th August, 1958. | ||
| "The Bar Harbor Fire" Oil Painting by Howe Duane Higgins Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  "The Bar Harbor Fire" Oil Painting by Howe Duane Higgins Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Panoramic view of the 1947 Bar Harbor fire painted by Howe Duane Higgins and framed in a ornate gilded frame. |
| Bar Harbor Railroad Painted Toy Train Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Bar Harbor Railroad Painted Toy Train Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Painted black wood toy train with an attached train car. Engine car is black with six red wheels and yellow detail of the silhouette of conductor and the text: "1492 BHRR". Second car has four red wheels and carries nine blocks of wood suspended on a wooden pole. The two sections are attached with a small metal hook. |
| Bar Harbor Rail Road Toy Train Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Bar Harbor Rail Road Toy Train Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Wooden toy train with four red painted wood wheels. Body of train has "1492 BHRR" painted on as well as a painted conductor silhouette. | |
| Mary Roberts Rinehart Portrait and Card Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Mary Roberts Rinehart Portrait and Card Bar Harbor Historical Society 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". |
| Rinehart Teapot Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Rinehart Teapot Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Teapot and lid, white china with gilded edges and initial "R". Owned by Mary Roberts Rinehart, part of her set. | |
| Dinner Dress Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Dinner Dress Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Slate blue heavy weight taffeta dinner dress with a split neck sweetheart neck line with mercury silver beads and matching belt. Tag reads: "The Garden Seat Clearwater, Florida. Franelle Bar Harbor, Maine" | ||
| Mary Roberts Rinehart Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Mary Roberts Rinehart Bar Harbor Historical Society | |
| Rabbit hunter Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Rabbit hunter Bar Harbor Historical Society 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. | |
| Otter Point, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Otter Point, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Black and white image. Print of landscape view of Otter Point, photo taken while standing on the walking path adjacent to the Ocean Drive, Acadia National Park. Pine on the shore on left foreground, Otter Point in the distance. Back: Anchor Light Studio, W.H. Ballard, Southwest Harbor, Maine | ||
| Graphic Summary of the Bar Harbor Climate Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Graphic Summary of the Bar Harbor Climate Northeast Harbor Library Description: Data taken at Bar Harbor (summer) and Rockland (winter), ME, for the National Climate Center in Asheville, NC. 1950-1956 and 1958-1959 | |
| Property of Leslie Hamilton Burden, et al. Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Property of Leslie Hamilton Burden, et al. Northeast Harbor Library Description: Drawing, 23x19", showing Dunlap property transferred to Leslie Hamilton Burden in Clark Cove, Bar Harbor. Adjoining lots of Dunlap and Kellogg. | |
| Heather Time at Reef Point Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Heather Time at Reef Point Northeast Harbor Library Description: Brief descriptive tour of the Reef Point Gardens of Beatrix Farrand in Bar Harbor. | |
| House for Mr & Mrs David R Harding Northeast Harbor Library |
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| House for Mr & Mrs David R Harding Northeast Harbor Library | |
| Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine Northeast Harbor Library Description: Fire risk assessment and real property maps. Location map and index. Property/cottage names are included. Second book was updated and modified in 1952. | ||
| Opening Day at the Bar Harbor-Yarmouth Ferry Terminal, Bar Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Opening Day at the Bar Harbor-Yarmouth Ferry Terminal, Bar Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Automobiles along the road at front - Left to Right: The automobile with the hood open is a 1954 Ford Hardtop. 1948 Chrysler 1950-1951 Studebaker Behind tree - 1953 Ford station wagon. W.H. Ballard wrote this note on the negative sleeve for the photograph: "“Bluenose” Ferry Terminal, Bar Harbor, ME; taken the day the Bar Harbor-Yarmouth ferry was officially welcomed (service had been on since the early part of January). Blowing a hard SE gale, and I had to press down so hard on the camera that the tripod sagged. I was the only one who remained on the ridge." [show more] |
| Bar Harbor Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Bar Harbor Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library |