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Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Green Grows Bar Harbor: reflections from Kebo Valley
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Kebo
  • Recreation, Sports, Golf
  • Collier, Sargent F.
  • 1964
Green Grows Bar Harbor: reflections from Kebo Valley
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
...History of Bar Harbor, with photographs by Sargent Collier...Includes chapters on Acadia National Park, social and club life, island laboratories, Bar Harbor-Yarmouth ferry, Fire of 1947, Kebo Valley Golf Club, Bar...Harbor Club, Pot and Kettle Club, the Building of Arts, Great Automobile War...
1947 Bar Harbor Fire
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Events, Fire
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
1947 Bar Harbor Fire
Southwest Harbor Public Library
File Attachment:
1947 Bar Harbor Fire.pdf
…the Bar Harbor, Maine Fire Department received a call from a Mrs. …Written by an historian who was on the scene for the 1947 Bar Harbor Fire. …Bar Harbor: A Town Almost Lost A Pictorial Essay of Bar Harbor s Mansions Before and After the Fire of 1947 by Deborah M. …Dyer, maps courtesy of Arthur Corliss, Bar Harbor Historical Society, Bar Harbor, Maine, 2008. Author: Charlotte R. Morrill Date: 2016
Special Millennium Edition, The Bar Harbor Times
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Events
  • Other
  • Places, Town
  • The Bar Harbor Times
  • 12/28/2000
Description:
...In December 2000, The Bar Harbor Times published this "Special Millennium Edition" in 2 sections: A (cover-8) and B (9-19)...
Excerpt from Bar Harbor record article re: Asticou Inn fire, 1900
Tremont Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Asticou
  • Other, Asticou, Northeast Harbor, Hancock County, Maine
  • Other, Mail Delivery
  • Other, Post Offices
  • Other, Postage
  • Other, Postmasters
  • Other, Stamps
  • 9/21/2000
Description:
...Excerpt from Bar Harbor record article re: Asticou Inn fire, 1900...
Bar Harbor Times
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Events, Fire
  • 6/28/1979
Bar Harbor Times
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Entire newspaper. Report on Jordan Pond House fire. Entire newspaper is devoted to the fire.
Bar Harbor Burns
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Events, Fire
  • Oct 1947
Bar Harbor Burns
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
article from the Bureaugraph , November 1947 on Maine Fires and Situation on Mount Desert Island
Scrapbook, newspaper clippings about 1947 Bar Harbor Fire
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Scrapbook
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, 1947
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • 1948
Scrapbook, newspaper clippings about 1947 Bar Harbor Fire
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
...A green faux leather scrapbook that includes many clippings from the Bar Harbor Times about the 1947 Fire on Mount Desert island...
Bar Harbor fire of 1947
Tremont Historical Society
  • Object, Writing, Postcard
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine
  • October 1947
Bar Harbor fire of 1947
Tremont Historical Society
Bar Harbor Times article, October 21, 1976
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Events
  • People
  • 1976-10-21
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Wendell Gilley exhibits forty carvings plus carvings-in-progress at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences in the show "Down East Bird Carvings."
Bar Harbor Times article, November 20, 1969
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Events
  • People
  • 1969-11-20
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Announcement that Wendell Gilley would be attending a bird carving exhibition in Chestertown, Maryland. The carving of a bald eagle family that he entered in the exhibit is depicted.
Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Forest St. destruction
Tremont Historical Society
  • Object, Writing, Postcard
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine
  • October 1947
Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Mountain Avenue destruction
Tremont Historical Society
  • Object, Writing, Postcard
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine
  • October 1947
Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Prospect Avenue destruction
Tremont Historical Society
  • Object, Writing, Postcard
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine
  • October 1947
Southwest Harbor Public Library Auction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Events
  • 1983-09
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Southwest Harbor Public Library Auction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...to benefit Harbor House and the Southwest Harbor Public Library...National Bank of Bar Harbor...The second prize, a free, round-trip on Bar Harbor Airlines was won by Vaughn Marshall of Machias...The raffle raised $9,400 to be divided between the Harbor House and the library." – The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, September 8, 1983, Sec. 1, p. 13...
Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Belmont hotel area destruction
Tremont Historical Society
  • Object, Writing, Postcard
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine
  • October 1947
Bar Harbor fire of 1947, DeGregoire hotel area destruction
Tremont Historical Society
  • Object, Writing, Postcard
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine
  • October 1947
Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Malvern Hotel area destruction
Tremont Historical Society
  • Object, Writing, Postcard
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine
  • October 1947
Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Eagle Lake Road destruction
Tremont Historical Society
  • Object, Writing, Postcard
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine
  • October 1947
Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Miller Cottage area destruction
Tremont Historical Society
  • Object, Writing, Postcard
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine
  • October 1947
Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Mount Desert Street destruction
Tremont Historical Society
  • Object, Writing, Postcard
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine
  • October 1947
The Bar Harbor Fire - View from Beech Hill Road
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events, Fire
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1947-10-23
  • In Copyright
Description:
Somesville is at left and the E.F. Butler house is at left center. The photograph was taken at about 3 p.m. on October 23, 1947..
The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Events
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...In 1892 the ladies of Southwest Harbor gathered together to raise money for land upon which to build a library building and then reported how they raised...their dollar..The Dollar Social was the first fundraising event held for the Southwest Harbor Public Library and the poem describing it was famous in...


File Attachment:
The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor.pdf
…The Dollar Social At Southwest Harbor The Southwest Harbor Public library was founded in 1884. …Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 115. …"The Dollar Social At Southwest Harbor" describes how each woman earned her dollar. …Tracy, our Republican friend, took a bribe, I'm sorry to state, For her husband promised her a dollar if she would help him illuminate, So she sacrificed bar
Southwest Harbor Then & Now 2015 Exhibit
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Events
  • 2015-07
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Southwest Harbor Then & Now 2015 Exhibit
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...The July 2015 Show at the Southwest Harbor Public Library presented a visual stroll down Main Street and Clark Point Road composed of photographs from...


File Attachment:
THEN AND NOW SHOW 2015 - BROCHURE.pdf
…Neal is just visible driving his horse and buggy out of the barn drive across the wood plank sidewalk on to Main Street. 05 B The Bar Harbor Bank and …See the Bar Harbor Times, April 20, 1927, p. 7. 9 21 B The First Masonic Hall - The Clark Point Road from Main Street - Circa 1909-1910 353 Main Street …Public Library Collection of Photographs 23 A Moore's Garage Co. and Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co. on Clark Point Road - Circa 1919-1933 19 Clark Point …Photographer unknown Number 5823 - The Southwest Harbor Public Library Collection of Photographs The Bar Harbor Bank and Trust Company is housed in the
Times Past
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, History - Bar Harbor
  • 8/5/1899
Times Past
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
...Republication of Bar Harbor Record news items in Bar Harbor Times, ...Compiled by Deborah Dyer of the Bar Harbor Historical Society, 8/1/1999.Detailed description of the fire that destroyed the Kebo Valley clubhouse...
4th of July Celebration, Southwest Harbor, July 3, 1895
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Events
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Description:
...The first feature of the day was the band concert given the Southwest Harbor band, assisted by Lindall’s band of Boston and Bar Harbor, at the rustic little...In the afternoon after the band concert the ball game between Northeast Harbor and Bar Harbor nines was called, in the field near the Union church...To the Bar Harbor people there was nothing pleasanter for the day than the sail back and forth on the [steamer] Golden Rod. Capt....” – The Bar Harbor Record, July 6, 1895...