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Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Duck Brook, Bar Harbor, ME
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Stream
  • Acadia National Park
Duck Brook, Bar Harbor, ME
Northeast Harbor Library
Acadia National Park - Bar Harbor and Porcupines from Cadillac Mountain
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Mountain
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1951-08-05
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright
The Bar Harbor Fire - View of Damaged Trees at Sand Beach
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Shore
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1954-08-18
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright
Bar Harbor and the Porcupine Islands from the Pulpit Rock Trail, Acadia National Park
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Mountain
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1935-10
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright
Description:
Pulpit Rock is on the summit, just to the left out of this photograph.
Bar Harbor and the Porcupine Islands from the Pulpit Rock Trail, Acadia National Park
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Digital Photograph
  • Places, Mountain
  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • 2012-09-14
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright
Description:
This photo was taken from almost the same spot as a photo by W.H Ballard in October 1935. See Item 11895 for the Ballard photo. The cruise ship in the distance is the "MS Maasdam," a Holland America cruise ship built in 1993 by Italy’s Fincantieri Shipyards. She was named for a dam located on the Maas River in the Netherlands. “Maasdam” is an S class 10 deck cruise ship, 721.78’ long, 101.50 beam, 131.23’ high with a 24.93’ draught. She carries a crew of 580 and 1,258 passengers at a speed of 22 knots. [show more]
Bar Harbor and the Porcupine Islands from the Pulpit Rock Trail, Acadia National Park
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Digital Photograph
  • Places, Mountain
  • Soules - George John Soules
  • 2016-05-18
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright
Description:
I was inspired to take this photograph by Ballard's image (item 11895) of this same scene. -- George Soules
Bar Harbor and the Porcupine Islands from the Pulpit Rock Trail, Acadia National Park
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Places, Mountain
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1935-10
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright
Description:
At the summit of Cadillac mountain.
Hunters Beach Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Shore
  • 1935
  • Acadia National Park
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Hunters Beach Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...Published for Bee’s, Bar Harbor, Maine...
A Thunder Cave
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Art, Drawing
  • Places, Shore
  • Hyde - William Henry Hyde (1858-1943)
  • 1887
  • Acadia National Park
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
A Thunder Cave
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...Burton Harrison's novel, "Bar Harbor Days"...
Mount Desert Island Visitor
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Nature
  • Places, Island
  • The Bar Harbor Times
  • 1970
  • Acadia National Park
Mount Desert Island Visitor
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
...Newspaper supplement published by the Bar Harbor Times covering sightseeing and activities on and around Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park...
Valley Cove on Somes Sound
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places
  • Acadia National Park
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Valley Cove on Somes Sound
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...The postcard was printed by the Albertype Company for Bar Harbor stationer E.F. Teague to sell in his shop...
The Memorials of Acadia
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Park
  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright
The Memorials of Acadia
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...From 2012 to 2017, Don Lenahan of Bar Harbor, Maine wrote blog posts about the people, geography, and history of Acadia National Park...
Mount Desert Island Acadia National Park
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places, Park
  • Places, Town
  • K. H. Mansfield, M. B. Mansfield, Editors
  • 1947
  • Acadia National Park
Description:
...Tour guide prepared by the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce describing the villages on the Island and Acadia National Park...
Valley Cove on Somes Sound, Acadia National Park
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Sound
  • Acadia National Park
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
...It may have been contracted for Bar Harbor stationer E.F. Teague and sold by the Park Theater...
The Satterlee Tea House Site at Great Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places
  • Soules - George John Soules
  • 2015-10-08
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright
The Satterlee Tea House Site at Great Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...The Tea House was destroyed in the 1947 Bar Harbor Fire. Eleanor Morgan Satterlee gave the property to Acadia National Park in 1949...
GXS Collection - Acadia National Park
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Advertising, Advertisement
  • Places, Park
  • Acadia National Park
Description:
...Folder 9 Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park Maine: A scenic wonderland of ocean, lakes and mountains, 1930?, 14, [1] pages: illustrations, maps...Folder 52 Brochure "Visit Bar Harbor - Acadia National Park", 1952...
Balance Rock on South Bubble
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Mountain
  • Townsend - Charles A. Townsend (1871-1932)
  • Acadia National Park
  • No Copyright - United States
Balance Rock on South Bubble
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...The name was probably changed because of the confusion between it and the famous Balance Rock on the shore at Bar Harbor...
Precipice Trail
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Hiking Trail
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Precipice Trail
Southwest Harbor Public Library
File Attachment:
Precipice Trail - T.pdf
…Funded by: Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association and Rudolph Brunnow Rudolph Ernest Brunnow (1858-1917) Chairman of the Path Committee 1912-1917 He …"He died in the spring of 1917, leaving behind some of the most challenging, controversial, and highly crafted trails in the Bar Harbor System " …Bar Harbor Times, November 21, 1914, p. 1.
Eagle Lake
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Lake
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Eagle Lake
Southwest Harbor Public Library
File Attachment:
Eagle Lake.pdf
…water is in some places over ten fathoms deep, and so sweet and pure that it furnishes a very satisfactory water supply to the cottages and hotels of BarHarbor. …During the summer season, several times each day, four horse barges run from Bar Harbor to Eagle Lake, a distance of 2 miles, through the forest, and …It is a quaint little stern wheel craft, formerly used on the Merrimac at Newburyport, and hauled up from Bar Harbor to Eagle Lake by a hundred oxen and
Echo Lake
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Lake
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Echo Lake
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Echo Lake is located on the western side of Mount Desert Island. The lake is a popular swimming area and is surrounded by hiking trails on the nearby mountains.


File Attachment:
Echo Lake.pdf
…activities on Mount Desert Island that was considered an essential experience by early rusticators taking a buckboard ride between Somesville and Southwest Harbor …"The road to Somesville runs northward from [Southwest] harbor, and in about a mile form the Island House reaches the divergence of the Seal-Cove road. …the silvery waters of Somes Sound come into view, beyond the rugged rocks of Robinson Mountain; and the hotel on Green Mountain shows the direction of BarHarbor.
Great Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Shore
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Great Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Great Head is located near Sand Beach in Acadia National Park. The area was owned in the early 1900s by the Satterlee family and they built an observatory and a tea house on the point. The ruins of the structure remain. J.P. Morgan had purchased 110 acres on the Maine coast at Mount Desert including Great Head, now given to Acadia National Park, as a gift for his daughter, Louisa. She and her husband Herbert Satterlee had built their country home there and enjoyed it for many years. [show more]


File Attachment:
Great Head.pdf
…Great Head is a prominent object when passing from Bar Harbor to Southwest Harbor by water. No description can do justice to its savage grandeur.
Otter Creek Cliffs
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Park
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Otter Creek Cliffs
Southwest Harbor Public Library
File Attachment:
Otter Creek Cliffs.pdf
…Benjamin Franklin De Costa (1831-1904) "Otter Cliffs The drive from Bar Harbor to the Otter Cliffs is five miles, and the road, nearly parallel with
Written in the Rocks
Jesup Memorial Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Places, Park
  • Acadia National Park
Written in the Rocks
Jesup Memorial Library
File Attachment:
Written in the Rocks-uncompressed.pdf
…Known as the Bar Harbor formation, these deposits roofed over the Ellsworth formation. …Geologists sometimes refer to the Ellsworth, Bar Harbor, and Cranberry Island formations as "weak" rock. …In still other places, the dispossessed stones and cobbles become gravel bars and shoals. …Bar Harbor was named for just such a bar, which connects it to Bar Island. Because the coast is young, sandy shores are rare.
Acadia's Memorial Paths
Jesup Memorial Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Places, Park
  • Acadia National Park
Acadia's Memorial Paths
Jesup Memorial Library
File Attachment:
Acadias Memorial Paths-uncompressed.pdf
…Gladys O'Neil, a native of Bar Harbor, is curator at Kurt Dietrich s Climb which ascends the eastern the Bar Harbor Historical Society Museum. slope …He built The Turrets on Eden Street in Bar Harbor, now owned by College of the Atlantic. …T1 HE BATES MEMORIAL, the most impressive of all of these, was erected in 1911 by the summer residents of Bar Harbor, Northeast and Southwest Harbors …to honor the former Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association president and chairman of their Paths Committee.
Schoodic
Jesup Memorial Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Places, Park
  • Acadia National Park
Schoodic
Jesup Memorial Library
File Attachment:
Schoodic-best quality.pdf
Bar
Harbor lies a dramatic corner of Acadia National Park that is also one of the last H of the great Down East fishing …For travelers who have explored Bar Harbor, Schoodic is a spectacular new place to discover. id the lobsterboats wake you at 4:30? …During the summer, a The laid-back pace is reflected in the ferry travels between peninsula s two towns, Winter Harbor Bar Harbor and Winter HarborBar Harbor has always had the really affluent people, and it was very rare that you d find a million-dollar home on this side of Frenchman s Bay other