Description: One of five black and white prints and negatives of same showing Bar Harbor Motor Co. shop, storage garage, stock room, and buildings. Photo of interior of service garage. Cars and lift in photo. These photos were part of a Ballard job to photograph the property for an advertising brochure and campaign in 1949. The negatives were used to make the prints in 1985 by Robert Michael, Jr, Portland, Maine. This is the negative for 008.073.21-1 [show more]
Description: One of five black and white prints and negatives of same showing Bar Harbor Motor Co. shop, storage garage, stock room, and buildings. Photo of interior of service garage. Cars and lift in photo. These photos were part of a Ballard job to photograph the property for an advertising brochure and campaign in 1949. The negatives were used to make the prints in 1985 by Robert Michael, Jr, Portland, Maine. This is the negative for 008.073.21-3 [show more]
Description: One of five black and white prints and negatives of same showing Bar Harbor Motor Co. shop, storage garage, stock room, and buildings. Photo of interior of service garage. Cars and lift in photo. These photos were part of a Ballard job to photograph the property for an advertising brochure and campaign in 1949. The negatives were used to make the prints in 1985 by Robert Michael, Jr, Portland, Maine. This is the negative for 008.073.21-5 [show more]
Description: One of five black and white prints and negatives of same showing Bar Harbor Motor Co. shop, storage garage, stock room, and buildings. Photo of interior of service garage. Cars and lift in photo. These photos were part of a Ballard job to photograph the property for an advertising brochure and campaign in 1949. The negatives were used to make the prints in 1985 by Robert Michael, Jr, Portland, Maine. This is the negative for 008.073.21-2 [show more]
Description: One of five black and white prints and negatives of same showing Bar Harbor Motor Co. shop, storage garage, stock room, and buildings. Photo of interior of service garage. Cars and lift in photo. These photos were part of a Ballard job to photograph the property for an advertising brochure and campaign in 1949. The negatives were used to make the prints in 1985 by Robert Michael, Jr, Portland, Maine. This is the negative for 008.073.21-2 [show more]
Description: One of five black and white prints and negatives of same showing Bar Harbor Motor Co. shop, storage garage, stock room, and buildings. Photo of interior of service garage. Cars and lift in photo. These photos were part of a Ballard job to photograph the property for an advertising brochure and campaign in 1949. The negatives were used to make the prints in 1985 by Robert Michael, Jr, Portland, Maine.
Description: One of five black and white prints and negatives of same showing Bar Harbor Motor Co. shop, storage garage, stock room, and buildings. Photo of interior of parts and service department. Includes tires, bikes, batteries, and other vehicle and bicycle parts. These photos were part of a Ballard job to photograph the property for an advertising brochure and campaign in 1949. The negatives were used to make the prints in 1985 by Robert Michael, Jr, Portland, Maine. [show more]
Description: One of five black and white prints and negatives of same showing Bar Harbor Motor Co. shop, storage garage, stock room, and buildings. Photo of exterior, taken from High Street. These photos were part of a Ballard job to photograph the property for an advertising brochure and campaign in 1949. The negatives were used to make the prints in 1985 by Robert Michael, Jr, Portland, Maine.
Description: One of five black and white prints and negatives of same showing Bar Harbor Motor Co. shop, storage garage, stock room, and buildings. Photo of exterior, taken from High Street. These photos were part of a Ballard job to photograph the property for an advertising brochure and campaign in 1949. The negatives were used to make the prints in 1985 by Robert Michael, Jr, Portland, Maine.
Description: One of five black and white prints and negatives of same showing Bar Harbor Motor Co. shop, storage garage, stock room, and buildings. Photo of interior of service garage. Several vehicles in garage. These photos were part of a Ballard job to photograph the property for an advertising brochure and campaign in 1949. The negatives were used to make the prints in 1985 by Robert Michael, Jr, Portland, Maine.
Description: Written when author was 85 years old, an account of her family's times at "Baymeath" in Bar Harbor. Preface is written to her grandson, Capt. Wm. McCormick Blair, Jr., who was serving during WWII in India.
Description: Gives information about the techniques of decorating early American furniture, walls, tinware, etc. and also gives instructions about how to do that oneself. Covers stenciling, applying gold leaf, japanning, oil-painted boxes and chests Envelope inside front cover contains cut stencils.
Description: This is a work of fiction by Maine writer Mary Ellen Chase. It is Inscribed “Harriet S. Sanderson, January 1942” on title page and appears to be a first edition. A review by Bess Jones from an unidentified source is pasted inside the back cover.
Description: Madame Bacler de Leval, a French woman, efforts to establish a settlement for French refugees in the present Tremont area in 1792, This pamphlet summarizes those efforts as includes her diary (and other writings) in French. There are also handwritten notes in French, and a postcard from the donor, which are in a small envelope.
Description: Includes background of pilgrim and arts and craft handicrafts as well as woodworking, spinning, weaving, knitting, dying, pottery, carving, needlework, silversmithing, and more.
Description: History of Bar Harbor from approximately 1800-1950 According to the introduction, this book was written to "find out what had made it [Bar Harbor] what it was". The book was written at the time of the Bar Harbor fire and covers early explorers and claimants, settlers, town of Eden, artists, cottagers, summer colony, and more.
Description: Sequel to We Summer in Maine by same author, but exploring further to such places as Boston, Bar Harbor, Bangor, Harpswell, Camden, Pemaquid, Mohegan [sic] and Moosehead Lake.
Allen-Holmes-Smith Photographs and other materials
Date:
1945
Description: Black and white graduation photograph of J. Walter Allen, 1945, in a cardboard folder frame. Allen is a young man wearing a dark jacket, striped dress shirt and necktie. Photographers logo is printed on the frame: Edward L Karam, The Farrington Studio, Brewer, Maine. Handwritten on the back of the frame: "J. Walter Allen, 1945".
Description: Construction deck plan for 'Little International,' class boat commissioned by William F. Strawbridge from L. Francis Herreshoff, of Marblehead. Two boats were built by Hinckley. One remains on Mount Desert Island today. The class failed to materialize due to the coming of WWII, after which Luders made their debut. White markings of ship design on black background (white paper on back is blank). Shows design of 28' class boat. Construction plan for design number 77. Drawn or designed by L. Francis Herreshoff in Aug. 1940. Scale: 1"=1'. [show more]