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Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
The Snow Owl - Stuffed Owl in Collection of Wendell Holmes Gilley
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • Object, Other Object
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1938-03
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright
Description:
...." – Bar Harbor Times, February, 1931...
COA Community Garden closure sign
College of the Atlantic
  • Image, Photograph, Digital Photograph
  • Object, Sign, Informational Sign
  • Places, Garden
  • Collins, Darron
  • 2020-07-07
  • Bar Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
COA Community Garden closure sign
College of the Atlantic
Description:
Gardening in the time of COVID-19. The COA Community Garden gate padlocked with a "garden closed" sign.
White pine stools
College of the Atlantic
  • Image, Photograph, Digital Photograph
  • Object, Furnishings, Stool
  • Collins, Darron
  • 2020-08-20
  • Bar Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
White pine stools
College of the Atlantic
Description:
Stools made from a white pine that blew down on campus during the winter. These stools will be used for outdoor gatherings on campus.
Mask mailbox
College of the Atlantic
  • Image, Photograph, Digital Photograph
  • Object, Containers, Mail Container, Mailbox
  • Collins, Darron
  • 2020-09-14
  • Bar Harbor
  • In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
Mask mailbox
College of the Atlantic
Description:
Mailbox by McCormick Lecture Hal filled with free masks for use during the pandemic.
Mask mailbox
College of the Atlantic
  • Image, Photograph, Digital Photograph
  • Object, Containers, Mail Container, Mailbox
  • Collins, Darron
  • 2020-10-02
  • Bar Harbor
  • In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
Mask mailbox
College of the Atlantic
Description:
Mailbox by the Turrets filled with free masks for use during the pandemic.
Indian Games, Toys and Pastimes of Maine and the Maritimes
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Object, Toy
  • People
  • Recreation
  • Edith Favour
  • 1974
Description:
...Bulletin X of The Robert Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor. Illustrated by Alice Dengler...
Park Street playground
College of the Atlantic
  • Image, Photograph, Digital Photograph
  • Object, Playground
  • Guay, Beverley
  • 2020-05
  • Bar Harbor
  • In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
Park Street playground
College of the Atlantic
Description:
A sign announcing the closure of the Park Street Playground due to COVID-19.
Horse Trough Memorial in Acadia National Park - a Mystery
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Object, Other Object
  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • 2014-01-21
  • In Copyright
File Attachment:
2014-01-21 Horse Trough Memorial in Acadia NP -- a Mystery.pdf
…Beatrix Jones, a prominent landscape architect who later married historian Max Farrand, was living at the time with her parents at Reef Point, their BarHarbor waterfront estate. 4 Just the building's cellar remains.
J. J. OBrien and His Jesuit Settlement Memorial
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Object, Site Marker, Monument
  • People
  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • 2012-09-27
  • In Copyright
File Attachment:
2012-09-27 J. J. OBrien and His Jesuit Settlement Memorial.pdf
…In 1925, while a Palm Beach resident, O'Brien purchased "Guy's Cliff," a 6-acre waterfront estate in Bar Harbor that today is the site of the College of …He and Louise, who died in Bar Harbor 11 years earlier, are buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, MI. J. J. …*Footnotes: 1 Bar Harbor Times, 7/24/1952; p. 1. 2 Memorial GPS coordinates: N44 17.643' W068 17.619' 3 George's father, Dr. …Phineas Horwitz, a surgeon general of the United States Navy, summered in Bar Harbor from 1879 until his death there in 1904. 4 The O'Briens named the
John D. Rockefeller, Jr’s Memorial
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Object, Site Marker, Monument
  • People
  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • 2017-01-28
  • In Copyright
John D. Rockefeller, Jr’s Memorial
Southwest Harbor Public Library
File Attachment:
2017-01-28 John D. Rockefeller, Jr’s Memorial.pdf
…Locally, he gave Seal Harbor the land for its village green, after buying the old Glencove Hotel and having it torn down in 1919. …In 1948 he gave 30 acres to the Jackson Memorial Laboratory in Bar Harbor after the widely devastating 1947 fire had destroyed the facility. …They came to Mount Desert Island in 1908 and rented a Bar Harbor cottage called The Briars on the Shore Path off Wayman Lane. …In 1909 he and his family became summer residents of Seal Harbor and the next year purchased The Eyrie, a 150-acre estate.
Indigenous American barrel-shaped Sweetgrass Basket
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Containers, Basket
  • Object, Other Object
  • Penobscot
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Indigenous American barrel-shaped Sweetgrass Basket
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
...Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs...
Building of Arts, Bar Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Program
  • Object, Art
  • Other, Building of Arts
  • Other, History - Bar Harbor
  • Structures, Civic, Entertainment
  • 1938
Building of Arts, Bar Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
...Program The second Subscription Series Summer of 1938 of the Building of Arts, Bar Harbor ME...
Maine's Great Coast Resort: Bar Harbor and Lafayette National Park
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Guidebook
  • Object, Baseball Gear, Baseball
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Camping
  • Other, Fishing
  • Other, Horseback riding
  • Other, Lafayette National Park
  • Other, Otter Cliffs
  • Other, Radio stations
  • Other, Tennis
  • Recreation, Sports, Golf
Description:
Contains brief written descriptions of activities, accommodations, and more. No date given, but mentions the Building of Arts, USN Radio Station at Otter Cliffs.
Survey of Yesterday's Toys.....And Chistmas
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Object, Toys
Survey of Yesterday's Toys.....And Chistmas
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
...Bar Harbor Times December 24, 1964. Survey of Yesterday’s Toys... And Christmas. By La Rue Spiker...
Hancock County Champions Trophy
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Prize, Trophy
  • Object, Basketball Gear, Basketball
  • Object, Prize, Trophy
  • Other, high school
  • Recreation, Sports
  • 1931-1938
Hancock County Champions Trophy
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
...Trophy - Hancock County Champions Trophy Champions listed on the trophy: -Ellsworth High 1931 -Winter Harbor High 1932-1934 -Mount Desert High 1935...-Gilman High 1936 -Bucksport High 1937 -Bar Harbor High 1938...
Ship Model
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Model
  • Vessels, Ship
  • 1931
Ship Model
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
...Milliken, patron of the "art of sailing" and "father" of the annual Northeast Harbor Fleet cruise on the occasion of the 10th annual cruise from Northeast...Harbor to Blue Hill, by the Northeast Harbor, Seal Harbor, and Bar Harbor yacht clubs...
Native American sweetgrass basket with lid
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Containers, Basket
  • Object, Other Object
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Native American sweetgrass basket with lid
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
...Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs...
Native American Indian maiden doll
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Doll
  • Object, Doll
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Native American Indian maiden doll
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
...Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs...
Native American acorn-like sweet-grass basket
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Containers, Basket
  • Object, Other Object
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Native American acorn-like sweet-grass basket
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
...Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor...
Native American miniature sweetgrass basket (Passamaquoddy)
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Containers, Basket
  • Object, Other Object
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Native American miniature sweetgrass basket (Passamaquoddy)
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
...Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs...
Native American sweetgrass basket and lid
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Containers, Basket
  • Object, Other Object
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Native American sweetgrass basket and lid
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
...Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor...
Native American sweetgrass whisk brooms
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Containers, Basket
  • Object, Other Object
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Native American sweetgrass whisk brooms
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
...Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs...
The Boiler, Great Cranberry Island
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Object, Other Object
  • Places, Shore
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
The Boiler, Great Cranberry Island
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...The huge 11 ton boulder the local fishermen called “The Boiler” had been lodged in the mud just off Fish Point at the entrance to the Pool or harbor on...The Pool, a good sheltered harbor for schooners, is shallow with a 2-foot draft at low tide, rising to an 8 to 10 foot draft when the tide is in...The Bar Harbor Record, February 23, 1900 - Cranberry Island...
Native American sweetgrass square shape
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Containers, Basket
  • Object, Other Object
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Native American sweetgrass square shape
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
...Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs...
Acetylene Beacon Traffic Control Tower
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Object, Other Object
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Acetylene Beacon Traffic Control Tower
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
The traffic control tower at the junction of Main Street and Clark Point Road was an acetylene beacon made by the American Gas Accumulator Co. of Elizabeth, New Jersey


File Attachment:
Traffic Beacons.pdf
…Apparently Bar Harbor used the beacons too - "American Gas Accumulator Co., supplies for Beacons - $212.38" Annual Report of the Municipal Officers …of the Town of Bar Harbor, Year Ending 1927.