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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Buckboard Riding
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Transportation, Wagon
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Buckboard Riding
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...Harbor, Jordan Pond, Bubble Pond, and even to the western side of the island...Morse" in the afternoon to Southwest Harbor, hire a team there, and drive all around the western side of the island...Harbor published by W.H...In addition to their workshop in Ellsworth, the Davis brothers had premises in Bar Harbor, a fashionable summer resort...
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...
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