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Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Bar Harbor Express
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Bar Harbor Express
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...The Bar Harbor Express was a seasonal passenger train serving Bar Harbor, Maine...From Mount Desert Ferry, steamers took passengers to Bar Harbor...." - "Bar Harbor" by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr., Postcard Series, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, South Carolina, 2011, p. 20...The Bar Harbor Express was involved in a crash with the White Mountain Express on September 2, 1913 in New Haven, CT...
Bar Harbor buildings.
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Market Business
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Transportation, Carriage
  • Julia G. Manchester
  • 1897
  • Bar Harbor
Bar Harbor buildings.
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
...Fanuiel Hall Market and Porcupine Hotel in Bar Harbor. Horse-drawn buggy in in the street...
Bar Harbor Club Postcard, undated
Tremont Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Bar Harbor Club Postcard, undated
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
...The Bar Harbor Club was built by J.P. Morgan and opened in 1930. The Bar Harbor Club in Bar Harbor, Maine. People Depicted: J. P...
Postcard with stamp sent from Bar Harbor and delivered via Bangor and Bar Harbor railroad.
Tremont Historical Society
  • Object, Writing, Postcard
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Businesses, Transportation Business
  • Other, Mail Deliverry
  • Other, Post Offices
  • Other, Railroads
  • Other, Stamps
  • Transportation, Train
  • 6/15/1885 1907
Description:
...Postcard with stamp sent from Bar Harbor and delivered via Bangor and Bar Harbor railroad...
W.H. Davis, Bar Harbor Buckboard Builder Advertisement
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Advertising, Advertisement
  • Transportation, Carriage
  • Ware Brothers, Philadelphia
  • 1897
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
.... - All sizes of Bar Harbor Buckboards…Carriage Repairing and Painting of every Description - W.H...Davis, Bar Harbor Buckboard Builder" - An advertisement appearing in A Guide to Bar Harbor published by W.H. Sherman, p. 104 - 1897...
Photo of Bar Harbor Express
Bar Harbor Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • 1900 c
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Undetermined
Photo of Bar Harbor Express
Bar Harbor Historical Society
Description:
...Black & white photo depicting the Bar Harbor Express Railroad train leaving Mt. Desert Ferry...
Opening Day at the Bar Harbor-Yarmouth Ferry Terminal, Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Transportation, Terminal, Marine Terminal
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1956-06-08
  • Bar Harbor
  • In Copyright
Description:
...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...
First blimp to come to Bar Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Transportation, Aerostat, Airship, Blimp
  • nd
First blimp to come to Bar Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
...First blimp to Bar Harbor. Was destroyed on route to New York U.S. Navy blimp...
The Bar Harbor Auto War
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Places, Island
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Richard A. Savage
  • 1975
  • Mount Desert Island
The Bar Harbor Auto War
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Article about the conflict when the automobile was introduced to Mount Desert Island. Published in Down East Magazine, August 1975.
Bar Harbor Path Committee to George B. Dorr Letter, April 1, 1922
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other
  • Places, Park
  • Recreation
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Bar Harbor Path Committee
  • 1922-04-01
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
...An unsigned letter from the Bar Harbor Path Committee to George B. Dorr, the custodian of Lafayette National Park...
Buckboard: wooden wheels with iron cladding made in Bar Harbor
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Transportation, Carriage, Buckboard
  • Transportation, Carriage
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Description:
...Bar Harbor, Me". Wooden wheels with iron cladding. From the old barn at the Red House - the Towns/Lim house. Willie Granston December 2016: "…...One is privately owned by Martha Stewart, and one is a really sweet little 2 seater with a rear groomsman's seat owned by Bar Harbor Historical Society...The Living Past,Virginia Somes-Sanderson p. 229: "People came in droves from Bar Harbor, some in their private carriages, often with coachmen and footmen...
The Bar Harbor Express Between Bangor, Maine and Boston, Massachusetts
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • 1907-11-02
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Printed in Germany
The Bar Harbor Express Between Bangor, Maine and Boston, Massachusetts
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • 1911 PM
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Simeon Holden Mayo and his 1907 Maxwell Automobile at the Florence Hotel, Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • 1908
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Nell Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton and Seth Sprague Thornton Leaving Southwest Harbor for Houlton
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Carroll - Nellie Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton (1871-1958)
  • 1912-07-10
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright
Description:
...Nell and Seth Thornton are shown leaving Southwest Harbor for their home in Houlton, Maine in a beautiful 1910 Model T Ford automobile...The Model T may belong to Seth or the other man who may possibly be driving them to Bar Harbor or Ellsworth to board the train for Houlton...If the Ford belonged to the Thorntons the trip from Southwest Harbor to Houlton would have taken them at least 11 hours by automobile in 1912...The Carroll family celebrated the Fourth of July every year with a picnic at their old family home, The Mountain House, on Carroll hill in Southwest Harbor...
Maine Central Railroad Advertisement
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Advertising, Advertisement
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • 1897
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Maine Central Railroad Advertisement
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...Advertisement appearing in "A Guide to Bar Harbor" published by W.H. Sherman...
Buckboard Riding
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Art, Drawing
  • People
  • Transportation, Wagon
  • Lapham - William Berry Lapham
  • 1887
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Buckboard Riding
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...Illustration appearing in Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island by William Berry Lapham, P. 58 - 1887...
"Shenandoah" Dirigible
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Transportation, Aircraft
  • Rugen - J. Rugen, 295 Thames St., Newport, R.I.
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
"Shenandoah" Dirigible
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...The “Shenandoah” was on her way to Bar Harbor from the naval air station at Lakehurst, New Jersey...
Album of Mount Desert
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places
  • Places, Carriage Road
  • Places, Landscape
  • Places, Mountain
  • Places, Town
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • Mount Desert Island
Album of Mount Desert
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
...It contains drawings of various places on Mount Desert Island and a map of Bar Harbor village. 1. Photo 2101 a: Bar Harbor from Bar Island 2...Photo 2101 b: Bar Harbor from Scotts Hill 3. Photo 2101 c: Harbor View 4. Photo 2101 d: Great Heat 5. Photo 2101 e: Schooner Head 6...Photo 2101 i: View at Bar Harbor 10. Photo 2101 j: West End Hotel 11. Photo 2101 k: On the Road to Otter Cliffs 12...Photo 2101 z1: Mossley Hall, Bar Harbor. Private Residence 28. Plan of Bar Harbor...
Green Mountain Railway
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • 1963
  • Acadia National Park, Cadillac Mountain
Green Mountain Railway
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
...Published in the "Bar Harbor Times" - October 3, 1963...
Sleeping Homecomers Victims of Rear-end Collision
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Events
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • 1913-09-13
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
...Describes the crash of the Bar Harbor Express and the White Mountain Express on Sept. 2, 1913. 21 people were killed and 50 were injured...
Letter from Bishop Doane to Jerome Knowles
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Bishop Doane, Jerome Knowles
  • 1906
Description:
...December 15, 1906 Letter about a rumored automobile being used on the island in Bar Harbor and the legal proceedings about automobile use on Mount Desert...
Green Mountain Railway
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Mountain
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Green Mountain Railway
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...Harbor and Mount Desert Island" by William Berry Lapham, p. 16 - 1887...No person should visit Bar Harbor without ascending Green Mountain by way of Eagle Lake and the Green Mountain Railway...The journey up the mountain and the magnificent outlook from the summit…" - Part of an advertisement appearing in Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island By...See “The Story of Bar Harbor – An Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years In the Life of a Community,” by Richard Walden Hale, Jr., p. 155...
Leslie Brewer, Freddy Richardson and William Dolliver Homemade Car Postcard, c. 1908
Seal Cove Auto Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Transportation, Automobile, Racing Car
  • 1908 c.
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
...A homemade car built by Leslie Brewer, Freddy Richardson and William Dolliver of Bar Harbor, Maine...
Automobiles - The Mount Desert Town Meeting
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Literary, Poem
  • Other
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Herbert Weir Smyth
  • 8/23/1913
  • Mount Desert
Description:
...This was published August 23, 1913 in Bar Harbor Life. See also item 1564...