Description: ...1.The Davis BarHarbor Buckboard Company (c. 1889),copy of news paper article...“The Davis BarHarbor Buckboard Company - First Manufacturing Concern in BarHarbor - W.H. Davis, L.B. Decey (Deasy?), C.E. Marcyes”...Company on School Street in BarHarbor. Circa 1889. 2 "Memories of old BarHarbor..." Down East Magazine, July 1976, by Cathleen Sherman Clayton...Map, Village of BarHarbor, BarHarbor, Town of Eden, Mount Desert, c.1881. 4."The Fire," typwritten ms. by Horace H. Leavitt, Pres,...
Description: ...From the 1880s to the end of World War I, the fashionable resort of BarHarbor attracted thousands of summer visitors with the money and leisure to pursue...Many relaxed at BarHarbor's lavish hotels, while others built even more lavish and fanciful "cottages" for their own summer retreats...Eighty-six vanished summer palaces are pictured in Lost BarHarbor...Many never before published photographs from the BarHarbor Historical Society are supplemented by lively text describing the estates and their colorful...
Description: ...BarHarbor Record “Early Settlers of BarHarbor” by Rev. O.H. Fernald August 14, 1890. Previously acessioned as **0864, Object Id 012.FIC.043.6...
Description: ...Two articles pertaining to the history of the BarHarbor Times newspaper...Titles are: BarHarbor Times is Fifty Years Old This Week, commemorative edition, published in the BarHarbor Times, BarHarbor Times Has New Owners,...
Maureen Williams, writing for Bangor Daily News; LaRue Spiker for Ellsworth American
Description: ...Articles on two pages each reporting on the possible acquisition of a BarHarbor estate owned by William Wolff by an medical research enterprise, Ivest...
Description: ...3 short pieces of perspectives on the Fire; role of the Navy in the fire, Perspective of Jim Butler BarHarbor Times ,10/13/1983, written by Dotty Cooke...A first hand account of the 1947 BarHarbor fire as told by Dotty Cooke...Ellsworth American account LaRue Spiker of 1942 fire 25 years ago 1967 account of 1947 fire supplement in BarHarbor Times...
File Attachment: Bar Harbor Burning-uncompressed.pdf …I REMEMBER BarHarbor Burning A letter borne from the front lines of the Great Fire of 47 captures the enormity of the historic blaze. …In the living room three big win dows looked out over the bay and across to BarHarbor. …We had planned to head for BarHarbor to help out there, but we had to wait until the road reopened. …As we moved toward BarHarbor we passed hundreds of fires burning on either side of the road.
Description: ...Newpaper clipping, Bangor Daily News, 6 June 1956, pp. 17-18 & 21-22, "Maine Greets Opening of Yarmouth-BarHarbor Ferry," about the new ferry terminal...in BarHarbor, and the Bluenose ferry...
File Attachment: Bar Harbor Burns-uncompressed.pdf …WHIPPED BY 50-MILE-AN-HOUR WINDS WHICH MADE FIRE FIGHTING ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE, LEAPING FLAMES MAKE SHORT WORK OF BARHARBOR BURNS $25 million forest fire …Desert Island, Maine, encircled the famed summer-resort town of BarHarbor. …As the refugees pulled out, they could look, over AN ABANDONED SUMMER MANSION their shoulders and watch BarHarbor s colony of palatial estates go …WHILE HOUSE BLAZES LIKE CARDBOARD BOX (BELOW), FLAMES SPREAD THROUGH TREES TO CONTINUE MARCH DOWN BARHARBOR S MlLLIONAIRES ^ROW (OPPOSITE)
File Attachment: Historic Bar Harbor Photos-compressed.pdf …York PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE HARBOR Photo by Bradley DINING ROOM IN A BARHARBOR COTTAGE Fred L. …PRINTER AND STATIONER AND PUBLISHER OF BARHARBOR SOUVENIRS BARHARBOR FROM MALDEN HILL .. …Savage, Architect CROMWELL S HARBORBARHARBOR, FROM BAR ISLAND RECEPTION DAY AT MT. …BarHarbor, in the town of Eden, takes its name from the sand bar which connects the main island with Bar Island, and forms an inner and outer harbor,
Description: ...Newsclipping: BarHarbor Times “Somesville News Items and Social Happenings”. Previously accessioned as **0680, Object Id 011.FIC.71.8...
Description: ...Facts from an article written by Albert Higgins for the BarHarbor Times March 1929...Availability of provisions in 1855 to 1866 in BarHarbor; mention of Russell Fish factory on Dix Point, Russell Coal wharf and steamboats at Goose Cove...
File Attachment: The Bar Harbor Express-uncompressed.pdf …Accordingly, on June 27, 1887, the Maine Central gave the BarHarbor Express a companion, which was named the BarHarbor Limited. …At left is the BarHarbor Express leaving Mount Desert Ferry about the year 1925. …That means was the BarHarbor Express. …there may some day be an other BarHarbor Express of 15 Pullmans and a diner.
File Attachment: The Bar Harbor Fire-uncompressed.pdf …THE BARHARBOR FIRE (Taken from Mount Desert - The Host Beautiful Island In The World by Sargent Collier) The great fire of 1947 was a crucible …Exhausted men eaugl.t brief naps on the floor of tho BarHarbor Fire House, the command center, between calls to duty on the ever-shiting fire lines. …T The Paris Figaro on its front page screamed La ville de BarHarbor est a deni detruite. …Le Figaro tried to imply that BarHarbor had been fired by Maine peasants protesting great landed estates.
File Attachment: Tragedy in Bar Harbor-uncompressed.pdf …BARHARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY What s in a Picture? …Tragedy in BarHarbor HE dark-clad and tormented figure of Medea stands astride wooden folding chairs amid the semicircle indicates that a good the lower …forty BarHarbor grand Building of the Arts, built with the support of such wellsummercators have even noticed the anachronistic attire. …Most of known summer names in BarHarbor as Mrs.
File Attachment: When Bar Harbor Smiles-uncompressed.pdf …And he hit it squarely when we went to BarHarbor. …BarHarbor! Land from the lower deck! * * * Well we landed, Mac head first. …The answer BARHARBOR FROM THE SUMMIT OF NEWPORT MOUNTAIN. …* * * Of the shops of BarHarbor I cannot speak with authority.
File Attachment: Bertie Vamps Bar Harbor-uncompressed.pdf …These pio neering BarHarbor rusticators Photographs courtesy BarHarbor Historical Society formed a bond of trust and like-mindedness unknown in other …BarHarbor in the nineties earned its nickname, Little Paris. …Both local weekly newspapers, The BarHarbor Record and The BarHarbor Herald, did their bit by vying to see who could cover in greatest detail last night …Later, the eccentric owner During the summer of 92, the belle of BarHarbor was the beautiful debutante, Suzy everyone in BarHarbor.
Description: ...Newspaper clipping, "BarHarbor residents fleeing famed resort town feared doomed by forest fire", with picture of different fire, from West Palm Beach...
File Attachment: Old Bar Harbor Days-uncompressed.pdf …A Reception at the Pot and Kettle Club OLD BARHARBOR DAYS fell in love with BarHarbor at first sight. …BarHarbor Times October 3, 1914 Saunderson, took us out on his launch right after breakfast and, as Mrs. …He had suggested BarHarbor and offered to pilot the ship in, as he was familiar with the coast and harbor, having often steered his own steam yacht over …Fabbri had been coming to BarHarbor often since a child with her family, the Elliott F. Shepards.