Description: .... - All sizes of BarHarbor Buckboards…Carriage Repairing and Painting of every Description - W.H...Davis, BarHarbor Buckboard Builder" - An advertisement appearing in A Guide to BarHarbor published by W.H. Sherman, p. 104 - 1897...
Description: ...December 15, 1906 Letter about a rumored automobile being used on the island in BarHarbor and the legal proceedings about automobile use on Mount Desert...
Description: ...Desert, Tremont and Southwest Harbor nearly all the voters have signed the petitions while in the town of Eden [BarHarbor] 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 BarHarbor 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 BarHarbor in 1908...
Description: ...Roberts, was to gain insight from the experiences of others ahead of the issue being discussed during BarHarbor's annual town meeting...
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 BarHarbor 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...
Description: ...Describes the crash of the BarHarbor Express and the White Mountain Express on Sept. 2, 1913. 21 people were killed and 50 were injured...
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...
Description: ...Ballard wrote this note on the negative sleeve for the photograph: "“Bluenose” Ferry Terminal, BarHarbor, ME; taken the day the BarHarbor-Yarmouth ferry...