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: 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: Growth of Bar Harbor banking services to include communities farther "down east". Gives history of banking in Maine and relationship to Boston banking, beginning in 1887.
Description: From 1883 to 1890 a cog railway ran up the slopes of today's Cadillac Mountain; the railway was the inspiration of Francis (Frank) Clerque.
Description: A green faux leather scrapbook that includes many clippings from the Bar Harbor Times about the 1947 Fire on Mount Desert island. The original owner of the scrapbook is unknown. Many of the pages in the scrapbook are empty. Clippings are affixed to pages with glue. Also includes program for 1948 Vaudeville show and nine pages from Time magazine, Nov. 28, 1949. Contents of the scrapbook have not been scanned.
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: 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. Mentions performances of the Boston Symphony at the Building of Arts.
Description: Reproduction of 1904 Bar Harbor Map compiled from Atlas of Bar Harbor & Vicinity, published by Summer Residents Association. Insets show Map of Shore from Bear Brook to Schooner Head
Description: Includes Municipal Department Reports, Board & Committee Reports, Conners-Emerson School Report, MDI Regional School Committee, Financial Reports, Warrant, State Senator, State Representative.102 pps.
Description: Single page newspaper article reporting on a 1911 Bar Harbor town meeting, the account of which was found in files of the Bar Harbor Police Department. Meeting issues included a pitch for a new fire house for the town of Bar Harbor. Previously archived as Object Id 012.FIC.043.14
Description: Supplement to the Bar Harbor Times, each including several artices, pertaining to development in the towns of Mt. Desert Island and Trenton. Tremont, a Small Town Experiences Growing Pressure Previously archived as object Id 012.FIC.043.4
Description: Supplement to the Bar Harbor Times, each including several artices, pertaining to development in the towns of Mt. Desert Island and Trenton. Bar Harbor Struggles with Big City Problems; Previously archived as object Id 012.FIC.043.4
Description: Contains brief written descriptions of activities, accommodations, and more. No date given, but mentions the Building of Arts, USN Radio Station at Otter Cliffs.
Description: Jan. 5, 1978 newspaper article from Ellsworth American recounting arrest of Sim Mayo for civil disobedience (driving automobile), banning of driving autos on certain roads; 2 photos: cars on road above Eagle Lake, buckboards in front of Bass Cottage, Bar Harbor.