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Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
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...
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...
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...
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...
W.H. Davis Bill of Sale to Augustus Clark for a Buckboard
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • Transportation, Carriage, Buckboard
  • 1897-09-22
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Automobile ordinance: Town of Eden, 1900
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Government, Regulation
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • 1900
  • Bar Harbor, Eden
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...
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...
Toot 'N' Be Darned
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Transportation, Carriage
  • 1907
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Toot 'N' Be Darned
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...Desert, Tremont and Southwest Harbor nearly all the voters have signed the petitions while in the town of Eden [Bar Harbor] more than half of the voters...numerous accidents that have already occurred here through the use of autos furnish a good specimen of what would happen were their use more common." - The Bar...Harbor Record, December 30, 1908, quoted in the Bar Harbor Times, “Times Past” column by Deborah Dyer, January 1, 2009 See SWHPL 7484 for a photograph...of Simeon "Sim" Holden Mayo breaking the rules and driving his automobile in Bar Harbor in 1908...
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
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
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...
Who Says Automobiles: Interesting Letters from Many Summer Resort People Information Sheet, c. 1908
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • Other
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • 1908 c.
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
...Roberts, was to gain insight from the experiences of others ahead of the issue being discussed during Bar Harbor's annual town meeting...
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
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...
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...
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...
Fred C. Lynam to Frank B. Rowell Letter, March 11, 1924
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Nature
  • Other
  • Places, Park
  • Recreation
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Lynam, Fred C.
  • 1924-03-11
  • Mount Desert Island
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Fred C. Lynam to Frank B. Rowell Letter, March 11, 1924
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
Description:
...Lynam to the secretary of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, Frank B. Rowell...
Frederic Delano Weekes to Frank B. Rowell Letter, July 14, 1924
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other
  • Places, Park
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Weekes, Frederic Delano
  • 1924-07-14
  • Mount Desert Island
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Frederic Delano Weekes to Frank B. Rowell Letter, July 14, 1924
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
Description:
...Rowell, the secretary of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association...
Gordon & White Garage with Automobiles and Trucks
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Automotive Repair Business
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1953-04
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright
Description:
...car) Gordon & White's 1950 Ford Tow Truck Unknown wood stake truck c. 1947 Ford c. 1946 Dodge 1949 Ford 1950 Chevrolet - company vehicle for a Bar...Harbor Chevrolet dealer c. 1939 Pontiac c. 1931 Ford - spoke wheel just visible at right front of photograph...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...