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You searched for: 'bar harbor'Place: [blank]Subject: Transportation
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
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...
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...
First blimp to come to Bar Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Transportation, Aerostat, Airship, Blimp
  • nd
First blimp to come to Bar Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
...First blimp to Bar Harbor. Was destroyed on route to New York U.S. Navy blimp...
Buckboard: wooden wheels with iron cladding made in Bar Harbor
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Transportation, Carriage, Buckboard
  • Transportation, Carriage
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Description:
...Bar Harbor, Me". Wooden wheels with iron cladding. From the old barn at the Red House - the Towns/Lim house. Willie Granston December 2016: "…...One is privately owned by Martha Stewart, and one is a really sweet little 2 seater with a rear groomsman's seat owned by Bar Harbor Historical Society...The Living Past,Virginia Somes-Sanderson p. 229: "People came in droves from Bar Harbor, some in their private carriages, often with coachmen and footmen...
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
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...
"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...
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...
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...
Handwritten notes or copies of newspaper articles about cars on MDI
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Automobiles
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Transportation, Transit Railway Vehicle, Streetcar, Trolley
Description:
No indication of who copied the articles.