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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...
Steamer Cimbia in an Advertisement for The Bangor and Bar Harbor Line
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Advertising, Poster
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • 1897
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
..."THE BANGOR AND BAR HARBOR LINE - BANGOR AND BAR HARBOR SB'T CO., STEAMERS: CIMBIA, SEDGWICK, TREMONT - Only line of steamers running between Bar Harbor...Landings made at Seal Harbor, N. E. Harbor, S.W. Harbor, Sedgwick, Deer Isle, Isleboro, Castine, Fort Point and all landings on Penobscot River.... - SCENERY UNSURPASSED - Steamers leave Bar Harbor Daily, except Sunday, at 7 a.m., arriving at Bangor at 5 p.m. Excellent meals served on board...Pullen, Gen'l Ticket Agt. - Office: Bangor, Me." - The advertisement appeared in A Guide to Bar Harbor published by W.H. Sherman, p. 85 - 1897...
Select Southwest Harbor Annual Reports
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Select Southwest Harbor Annual Reports
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...Annual reports for the years 1964 and 1972 as well as a Warrant report for 1965, all for the town of Southwest Harbor...


File Attachment:
accession-index-2058.pdf
…Accession Index Southwest Harbor Public Library Digital Archive Accession #: 2058 Title: Southwest Harbor Annual Reports Archivist: Sadie Cooley Date …31, 1972 with reports of the superintendent of schools auditors and the warrant, published by the Bar Harbor Times Publishing Company. 2058-002 2058- …of schools and road commissioner, published by the Bar Harbor Times Publishing Company. …Warrant report for Southwest Harbor, Maine March 1, 1965, published by the Bar Harbor Times Publishing Company.
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...
Mount Desert Congregational Church of Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Union Church
Southwest Harbor Congregational Church
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Report
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
  • Thompson - Deborah Thompson
  • 1999
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Mount Desert Congregational Church of Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Union Church
Southwest Harbor Congregational Church
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0836


File Attachment:
MHPC 405-0836.pdf
…In the meantime please note that the Southwest Harbor Architectural Survey Index and the Southwest Harbor Public Library Collection of Photographs Database …Narrative Description The Mount Desert Congregational Church of Southwest Harbor, commonly known as the Southwest Harbor Congregational Church, is a rectangular …Clark died on September 19, 1902 at Southwest Harbor, Maine. …Bar Harbor, Maine: Acadia Publishing, 1988. Reprint edition by Southwest Harbor Public Library of original, 1938, edition. Pages :5-57, 159,162. 10.
Southwest Harbor Elementary School
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Report
  • Structures, Institutional, School
  • Thompson - Deborah Thompson
  • 1998
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Southwest Harbor Elementary School
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0080


File Attachment:
MHPC 405-0080.pdf
…Southwest Harbor separated from Tremont in 1905. …Conveyance of property from Southwest Harbor School District to Town of Southwest Harbor. Marshall, Jean. …"Southwest Harbor School-Pemetic and Harbor House." MS summarizing deed searches. Southwest Harbor Town Office. Thornton, Mrs. Seth S. …[Nell Carroll Thornton) Traditions and Records of [Southwest] Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine. Bar Harbor: Acadia Publishing, 1988.
A Talk About the Southwest Harbor Public Library (1905-2005)
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Oral History
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
...This is a transcription of a talk given by Meredith Hutchins as a Southwest Harbor Public Library evening program in 2005...


File Attachment:
The Southwest Harbor Public Library – 1905-2005 - MH.pdf
…The Southwest Harbor Public Library 1905-2005 by Meredith Hutchins A talk given as a Southwest Harbor Public Library evening program in 2005. …According to the Bar Harbor Record of Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1895 A large number of people from all parts of the town of Tremont gathered at Southwest Harbor …To return to the library dedication, after the presentation of the keys, the Bar Harbor Record says that the greater part of the assembly went to Tremont …She would leave in mid-May to operate her Mount Desert Bookstore in Bar Harbor, while a summer librarian filled in.
Southwest Harbor Public Library, MHPC Survey
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Report
  • Structures, Civic, Library
  • Thompson - Deborah Thompson
  • 1998
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Southwest Harbor Public Library, MHPC Survey
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0001


File Attachment:
MHPC 405-0001.pdf
…In the meantime please note that the Southwest Harbor Architectural Survey Index and the Southwest Harbor Public Library Collection of Photographs Database …NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Southwest Harbor Public Library, Hancock County, Maine The Southwest Harbor Public Library …Bar Harbor Record. 16 October 1895. Identifies E.B . Homer as architect of new Public Library. Street, George E. Mount Desert, A History. Samuel A. …Bar Harbor, Maine: Acadia Publishing, 1988. Reprint edition by Southwest Harbor Public Library of original, 1938, edition. Pages 111-118; 149. 10.
Digital Archive posters created by COA students
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Advertising, Poster
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
  • 2019-02
  • In Copyright
Description:
...In 2019 graphic arts students at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor created these posters to promote the Digital Archive...
Interview of Henry and Elizabeth Guthrie
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
  • 1991-08-31
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Interview of Henry and Elizabeth Guthrie
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...She also talks about taking the "Bar Harbor Express," a train from Washington D.C. up to a ferry which would complete the journey to Bar Harbor...The Guthries were always just summer people, but felt that they belonged in Southwest Harbor and were very complimentary of the people they met in town...
Interview of Ruth Grindle
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
  • 1992-01-06
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Interview of Ruth Grindle
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...Esther Rodick interviews Ruth Grindle who talks about her life in Southwest Harbor...Neither of her parents were originally from the area, but her father moved to Bar Harbor to work in a jewelry story before moving to Southwest Harbor to...Finally, she tells of how she finagled her way into meeting FDR when he visited Southwest Harbor...
First Day Cover of Acadia National Park with Great Head Stamp - October 2, 1934
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Places, Park
  • 1934-10-02
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
...First Day Cover for launching of Great Head Stamp – features the Lone Pine on Robinson Mountain and the Great Head Stamp Mailed from Bar Harbor on launch...
Interview of Athol Higgins
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
  • 1989-08-10
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Interview of Athol Higgins
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...Before World War One, he worked in the Post Office in Bar Harbor and saw the switch from horses to automobiles...After World War One, he worked in the customs office in Southwest Harbor for twelve years...Athol talks about walking out to "the small island in the middle of the harbor" for picnics, and having to be careful of the tide...
Interview of Andrew Herrick
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
  • 1991-02-07
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Interview of Andrew Herrick
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...The first Herrick to stay was Isaac who ran a tide mill in Southwest Harbor. Andrew grew up in the house that Isaac built...Andrew drove a truck for a gas company, living in Bar Harbor and Ellsworth but was forced to stop that work in 1952 following a shoulder injury...He has many stories from his time in Southwest Harbor; the first car in the town, Beech Mountain priginally being called Herrick Mountain, finding bootleg...stories about Billy Tot, a man who worked as a cabin boy for Captain Norwood and eventually lived a primitive life on the edges of society near Southwest Harbor...
Rev. Charles Herrick Cutler Cottage
Abenaki
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Report
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • Thompson - Deborah Thompson
  • 1998
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Rev. Charles Herrick Cutler Cottage
Abenaki
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0024


File Attachment:
MHPC 405-0024.pdf
…Stratton kept an office in Bar Harbor and had a mixed practice, which included a number of summer cottages. …He was also the architect of the Bar Harbor Historical Society building. …The Bar Harbor Record also provided the name of Robie M. …[Nell Carroll Thornton] Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine. Bar Harbor: Acadia Publishing, 1988.
Alexandra Cottage - Dr. Abigail Mary (Redman) Fulton Cottage
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Report
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • Thompson - Deborah Thompson
  • 1999
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
File Attachment:
MHPC 405-0019.pdf
…The name of the architect of the cottage, who was mentioned in the Bar Harbor Record of March 22, 1888, P. H. …The floor has been replaced. 5 Bar Harbor Record. 6. 15. 1895. …In 1895, when the Bar Harbor Record published its description of the attractions of Southwest Harbor, Dr. …[Nell Carroll Thornton] Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine. Bar Harbor: Acadia Publishing, 1988.
Samuel Champion Cooper Cottage - The Larches
"Cooper Family", Mrs. Marian Cooper Rogers Cottage
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Report
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • Thompson - Deborah Thompson
  • 1998
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Samuel Champion Cooper Cottage - The Larches
"Cooper Family", Mrs. Marian Cooper Rogers Cottage
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0028


File Attachment:
MHPC 405-0028.pdf
…Other reports appeared in the Bar Harbor Record in 1895 (which supplied the name of the architect, James W. …The final published mention of the cottage dates from the Bar Harbor Record in 1938, which reports on the remodeling by Mrs. Marion C. …Harbor Record 6.15. 1895. 11. 8.1895. 1.13.1 938. …[Nell Carroll Thornton) Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine. Bar Harbor: Acadia Publishing, 1988.
Pine Lodge
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Report
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Lodge
  • Thompson - Deborah Thompson
  • 1998
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Pine Lodge
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0033


File Attachment:
MHPC 405-0033.pdf
Harbor Record reported in May, 1929 on Mrs. …(The 1895 article in the Bar Harbor Record listed in Section 9 below is a general survey of landmark buildings at Southwest Harbor.) …Bar Harbor Record. 6. 15. 1895. 5.15. 1929. Ellsworth, Maine. Registry of Deeds. Book 411 Page 288. 9.23.1904. Henry Clark to Robet1 Kaighn. …[Nell Carroll Thornton] Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert, Maine. Bar Harbor: Acadia Publishing, 1988.
Marion C. and Samuel W. Mead Cottage
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Report
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • Thompson - Deborah Thompson
  • 1998
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Marion C. and Samuel W. Mead Cottage
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0009


File Attachment:
MHPC 405-0009.pdf
…In the meantime please note that the Southwest Harbor Architectural Survey Index and the Southwest Harbor Public Library Collection of Photographs Database …Norwood, according to the Bar Harbor Record of 30 January 1907. Robie M. Norwood (1873-1955) was a very talented builder-architect. …Harbor Record 10.3 1. 1906. 1.30.1907. …[Nell Carroll Thornton] Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine. Bar Harbor: Acadia Publishing, 1988.
Pathmaker -- The Tragic Death of Waldron Bates
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Other Documents
  • People
  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • 2014-09-29
  • In Copyright
Pathmaker -- The Tragic Death of Waldron Bates
Southwest Harbor Public Library
File Attachment:
2014-09-29 Pathmaker -- The Tragic Death of Waldron Bates.pdf
…After being exhibited in Bar Harbor, it was placed there in September 1910. …How, an early developer of Bar Harbor and land donor. …News of the tragic death of Waldron Bates prompted the Bar Harbor community to establish additional memorials: - The Bar Harbor VIA changed the name of …In his September 1909 report to the Bar Harbor VIA, Path Committee chairman Dr.
Cadillac, Kinney and Fish Sticks
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Places, Park
  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • 2015-07-12
  • In Copyright
Cadillac, Kinney and Fish Sticks
Southwest Harbor Public Library
File Attachment:
2015-07-12 Cadillac, Kinney and Fish Sticks.pdf
…He went on to attend Harvard University, but left for Bar Harbor, ME to pursue an intriguing interest. E. …Kinney became a resident of downtown Bar Harbor in the 1940s about the time he started the North Atlantic Packing Co. there. …Later he resided in Hulls Cove, a Bar Harbor village. A keen businessman, Kinney was also a philanthropist and corporate advisor. …research institution in Bar Harbor; a trustee of the Maine Sea Coast Mission in Bar Harbor, an organization that provides spiritual, health and youth
Rudolph Brunnow and the Myths about Him
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Other Documents
  • People
  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • 2015-06-09
  • In Copyright
Rudolph Brunnow and the Myths about Him
Southwest Harbor Public Library
File Attachment:
2015-06-09 Rudolph Brunnow and the Myths about Him.pdf
…Meadow Brook A Bar Harbor newspaper's obituary of Brunnow is the apparent origin of the fianc myth and the German-by-birth claim. …Brunnow died of pneumonia in Bar Harbor on April 14, 1917. His children went to live with his mother-in-law, Margaretta F. …It serves no good purpose to perpetuate these myths. * Footnotes: 1 Bar Harbor Record, April 9, 1913, p.5. 2 Bar Harbor Times, April 21, 1917, p.1. 3 BarHarbor Times, April 28, 1917, p.3. 4 Bar Harbor Record, November 4, 1916, p.1.
Great Head, Sand Beach and J. P. Morgan
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Other Documents
  • People
  • Places, Mountain
  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • 2013-02-05
  • In Copyright
Great Head, Sand Beach and J. P. Morgan
Southwest Harbor Public Library
File Attachment:
2013-02-05 Great Head, Sand Beach and J. P. Morgan.pdf
…Morgan did vacation in Maine in 1875, when he and Fanny visited Bar Harbor and stayed at the newly extended Rodick hotel, then Bar Harbor's largest. …He enjoyed steaming from New York to Bar Harbor aboard his yacht, Corsair, and would take her around to Northeast Harbor to attend church services and …In 1897, as the 16th commodore of the New York Yacht Club, Morgan organized the first-ever cup event from NYC to Bar Harbor. …Bar Harbor, ME: Acadia Publishing Co., 1997. 3 The History of the New York Yacht Club, (pub. by the NYYC). 1975. 4 Bar Harbor Record, August 11, 1897.
Frances Scott "Bungalow"
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Report
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Bungalow
  • Thompson - Deborah Thompson
  • 1998
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Frances Scott "Bungalow"
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0003


File Attachment:
MHPC 405-0003.pdf
…In the meantime please note that the Southwest Harbor Architectural Survey Index and the Southwest Harbor Public Library Collection of Photographs Database …This cottage is referred to as a bungalow in the Bar Harbor Record in December, 1930. …Scott "Bungalow," Hancock County, Maine Major Bibliographic References Bar Harbor Record 12.24.1930. Ellsworth, Maine. …[Nell Carroll Thornton) Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine. Bar Harbor: Acadia Publishing Co.
Howe D. Higgins' Reports of Seizures and Related Documents
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Description:
This collection of documents contains Howe D. Higgins' reports of seizures as collector of customs, as well as the related documents for those seizures, including search warrants and documents containing information about liquor smuggling.


File Attachments:
Reports of Seizure and Related Documents.pdf
…Jellison Apartment over Franklin s Dry Goods Store in Bar Harbor HDH 080 10/15/1923 Duplicates of HDH 079 HDH 081 10/31/1923 11/1/1923 Mr. and Mrs …John Burns HDH 082 11/27/1923 Bar Harbor Banking and Trust HDH 083 11/27/1923 Bar Harbor Banking and Trust HDH 084 11/27/1923 Mrs. …Joseph Pulitzer Bar Harbor Banking and Trust HDH 085 11/27/1923 Bar Harbor Banking and Trust HDH 086 11/27/1923 Bar Harbor Banking and Trust HDH 087 …Malvern Hotel HDH 100 7/12/1924 7/19/1924 Mary Coles Bar Harbor Banking and Trust HDH 101 9/3/1924 American Express Company L.