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| The Bar Harbor Fire: Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  The Bar Harbor Fire: Northeast Harbor Library Description: ...Ruth Donnell Coombs, switchboard operator at Seal Harbor recalls the fire of 1947 that burned Bar Harbor... | |
| The Bar Harbor Fire Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  The Bar Harbor Fire Northeast Harbor Library Description: ...Christine B Rowell recalls the 1947 Bar Harbor fire and her escape... | ||
| News article re: Bar Harbor post office Tremont Historical Society |
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|  News article re: Bar Harbor post office Tremont Historical Society Description: ...News article from The Daily Herald about Bar Harbor post office hours and services... | |||
| New article from Ellsworth American about Bar Harbor events and described a new cancelling machine at the Bar Harbor post office. Tremont Historical Society |
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|  New article from Ellsworth American about Bar Harbor events and described a new cancelling machine at the Bar Harbor post office. Tremont Historical Society Description: ...New article from Ellsworth American about Bar Harbor events and described a new cancelling machine at the Bar Harbor post office... | |||
| Bar Harbor Burning Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Bar Harbor Burning Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Bar Harbor Burning-uncompressed.pdf …I REMEMBER Bar Harbor 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 Bar Harbor. …We had planned to head for Bar Harbor to help out there, but we had to wait until the road reopened. …As we moved toward Bar Harbor we passed hundreds of fires burning on either side of the road. | |||
| Bar Harbor Life Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Bar Harbor Life Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Bar harbor Life-best quality.pdf …The Jesup Memorial Library Bar Harbor,. …Bar Harbor, Maine." …to Bar Harbor in 1876. …-- Bar Harbor. | |||
| Bar Harbor Burns Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Bar Harbor Burns Jesup Memorial Library 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 BAR HARBOR BURNS $25 million forest fire …Desert Island, Maine, encircled the famed summer-resort town of Bar Harbor. …As the refugees pulled out, they could look, over AN ABANDONED SUMMER MANSION their shoulders and watch Bar Harbor s colony of palatial estates go …WHILE HOUSE BLAZES LIKE CARDBOARD BOX (BELOW), FLAMES SPREAD THROUGH TREES TO CONTINUE MARCH DOWN BAR HARBOR S MlLLIONAIRES ^ROW (OPPOSITE) | |||
| Interview with Art Stover about the Bar Harbor Fire of 1947 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Interview with Art Stover about the Bar Harbor Fire of 1947 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: ...Audio recording of interview with Art Stover about the Bar Harbor Fire of 1947... | ||||
| Excerpt from 1909 Bar Harbor Record article re: Northeast Harbor Post Office and local mail. Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Excerpt from 1909 Bar Harbor Record article re: Northeast Harbor Post Office and local mail. Tremont Historical Society Description: ...Excerpt from 1909 Bar Harbor Record article re: Northeast Harbor Post Office and local mail... | |||
| Excerpt from Bar Harbor record article re: Asticou Inn fire, 1900 Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Excerpt from Bar Harbor record article re: Asticou Inn fire, 1900 Tremont Historical Society Description: ...Excerpt from Bar Harbor record article re: Asticou Inn fire, 1900... | |||
| The Bar Harbor Express Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  The Bar Harbor Express Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: The Bar Harbor Express-uncompressed.pdf …Accordingly, on June 27, 1887, the Maine Central gave the Bar Harbor Express a companion, which was named the Bar Harbor Limited. …At left is the Bar Harbor Express leaving Mount Desert Ferry about the year 1925. …That means was the Bar Harbor Express. …there may some day be an other Bar Harbor Express of 15 Pullmans and a diner. | |||
| The Bar Harbor Fire Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  The Bar Harbor Fire Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: The Bar Harbor Fire-uncompressed.pdf …THE BAR HARBOR 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 Bar Harbor 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 Bar Harbor est a deni detruite. …Le Figaro tried to imply that Bar Harbor had been fired by Maine peasants protesting great landed estates. | |||
| Tragedy in Bar Harbor Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Tragedy in Bar Harbor Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Tragedy in Bar Harbor-uncompressed.pdf …BAR HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY What s in a Picture? …Tragedy in Bar Harbor HE dark-clad and tormented figure of Medea stands astride wooden folding chairs amid the semicircle indicates that a good the lower …forty Bar Harbor grand Building of the Arts, built with the support of such wellsummercators have even noticed the anachronistic attire. …Most of known summer names in Bar Harbor as Mrs. | |||
| Bertie Vamps Bar Harbor Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Bertie Vamps Bar Harbor Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Bertie Vamps Bar Harbor-uncompressed.pdf …These pio neering Bar Harbor rusticators Photographs courtesy Bar Harbor Historical Society formed a bond of trust and like-mindedness unknown in other …Bar Harbor in the nineties earned its nickname, Little Paris. …Both local weekly newspapers, The Bar Harbor Record and The Bar Harbor 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 Bar Harbor was the beautiful debutante, Suzy everyone in Bar Harbor. | |||
| Old Bar Harbor Days Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Old Bar Harbor Days Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Old Bar Harbor Days-uncompressed.pdf …A Reception at the Pot and Kettle Club OLD BAR HARBOR DAYS fell in love with Bar Harbor at first sight. …Bar Harbor Times October 3, 1914 Saunderson, took us out on his launch right after breakfast and, as Mrs. …He had suggested Bar Harbor 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 Bar Harbor often since a child with her family, the Elliott F. Shepards. | |||
| Bar Harbor: 40 Years Later Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Bar Harbor: 40 Years Later Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Bar Harbor-40 Years Later-best quality.pdf …Although the substantial Bar Harbor summer cottage of A. …who made Bar Harbor and near by villages their summer playground. …Most of downtown Bar Harbor was saved. …The story of the Bar Harbor fire ran as front-page news worldwide. | |||
| The Bar Harbor Auto War Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  The Bar Harbor Auto War Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: The Bar Harbor Auto War-uncompressed.pdf …Mahoney boldly drove his large touring car to the door of a Bar Harbor hotel. …This time Bar Harbor and neighboring Northeast Harbor cottagers came together in support of a bill calling for total exclusion of cars from all island …Within a few months a dozen adaptable Bar Harbor merchants were selling automobiles and supplies. …By that time some 300 cars were registered in Bar Harbor alone. | |||
| The Stotesbury's Bar Harbor Folly Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  The Stotesbury's Bar Harbor Folly Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: The Stotesbury Bar Harbor Folly-uncompressed.pdf …She retained a personal fashplicity in his private Bar Harbor quarters. …When her Bar Harbor neighbor down the street, Mrs. …Three years later, the fur nishings of the Stotesburys Bar Harbor house went on the block. …Today the era of the grand cottage and the glittering social life that Bar Harbor once knew seem long ago. | |||
| Childhood Days in Bar Harbor Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Childhood Days in Bar Harbor Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Childhood Days in Bar Harbor-uncompressed.pdf …There are only a few of us left who remember Bar Harbor in its glory days. …Those wonderful days when the Cottapes of Bar Harbor were the center of the summer season of the rich and the famous. …People beautifully dressed on the streets of Bar Harbor. The war ships coming in the harbor for a summer visit. …These and many more are happy memories of my childhood days in Bar Harbor. | |||
| Bar Harbor -From Eden to Tourism Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Bar Harbor -From Eden to Tourism Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Bar harbor - From Eden to Tourism-uncompressed.pdf …All photos courtesy of Bar Harbor Historical Society Bar Harbor, 1876. BAR HARBOR FROM EDEN TO TOURISM By Herbert J. …arriving at Bar Harbor about 9:30 the next morning. W 24 M Mt. Desert St w Harbor, ME 04609 Bar Harbor before the turn of the century. …The Bar Harbor Record of August 14, 1912, records that Mr. and Mrs. …Then the wind changed and saved Bar Harbor from complete destruction. | |||
| Bar Harbor: A Resort is Born Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Bar Harbor: A Resort is Born Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Bar Harbor A Resort is Born-uncompressed.pdf …the nation. 11 Panorama of the mountains at Bar Harbor, c. 1900.P/ioto courtesy of the Bar Harbor Historical Society. …Photo courtesy of the Bar Harbor His torical Society. successful oils that further pub licized Bar Harbor and Mount Des ert. …His kind words did Bar Harbor and Mount Desert no harm. Bar Harbor s traditional occupa tions rapidly gave way to the resort trades. …Photo courtesy of the Bar Harbor Historical Society. | |||
| Bar Harbor: 40 Years Later Jesup Memorial Library |
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| I was a Bar Harbor Bellhop Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  I was a Bar Harbor Bellhop Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: I Was a Bar Harbor Bellhop-uncompressed.pdf …IWasa Bar Harbor Bellhop And oh, the things I saw before the war and the fire changed everything. By Franc Ladner. …NE summer day a few years ago I to the side-wheeler J.T. decided to drop by the Bar Harbor Morse for the last leg of the Historical Society s museum …Harbor. …My mother had been lucky enough to The Newport House had been built in grow up in Bar Harbor, a descendant of set 1869 just as Bar Harbor was gaining | |||
| When Hollywood Came to Bar Harbor Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  When Hollywood Came to Bar Harbor Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: When Hollywood Came to Bar Harbor-uncompressed.pdf …LL the make-believe glamour of Hollywood came to Bar Harbor in the summer of 1917, when one of its early stars, Annette Kellerman, arrived, ac companied …The arrival of the screen company was a godsend for Bar Harbor s merchants; it gave employment as well to townspeople who were hired on as extras. …One summer resident, John Ogden, in the interest of raising money for the Bar A When Hollywood Came to Bar Harbor In the summer of 1917, sea goddessesfrolicked …And, once, Annette Kellerman gave a special exhibition at the Bar Harbor Swimming Club for the benefit of the local hospital. | |||
| Bar Harbor Observes 150th Birthday Jesup Memorial Library |
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