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16687Photos of Southwest Harbor businesses and locations
  • Uncurated Accession
  • Places, Town
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
Subjects include: - Ambulance - Beals Bowling Alley - Bar Harbor Banking and Trust - Southwest Harbor Bus Lines bus - The Causeway Club and sale water swimming pool - Clark Point - Elmwood Cafe - Gordon & White garage - Harbor View Motel - Library - Main Street - The Moorings - Pumping station - Pemetic School - Steam Boat Wharf - Southwest Harbor Motor Co. - Medical Center on Herrick Road - Tydol gas station Some of the images are photos of old photos. Many of these images appear individually in other items in the Digital Archive.
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Subjects include: - Ambulance - Beals Bowling Alley - Bar Harbor Banking and Trust - Southwest Harbor Bus Lines bus - The Causeway Club and sale water swimming pool - Clark Point - Elmwood Cafe - Gordon & White garage - Harbor View Motel - Library - Main Street - The Moorings - Pumping station - Pemetic School - Steam Boat Wharf - Southwest Harbor Motor Co. - Medical Center on Herrick Road - Tydol gas station Some of the images are photos of old photos. Many of these images appear individually in other items in the Digital Archive. [show more]
16692Rephotography of historical photos of Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Digital Photograph
  • Places, Town
  • Soules - George John Soules
Six images which merge historical and contemporary images of Southwest Harbor in these locations: - Main Street - The Carroll Building (item 5559) - The Causeway Under Construction (item 5084) - Central Filling Station - Tydol Service Station on Clark Point Road (item 5225) - John R. Tinker House (item 7348) - Southwest Harbor Motor Co. (item 10247) - The Southwest Harbor Congregational Church (item 11229)
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Six images which merge historical and contemporary images of Southwest Harbor in these locations: - Main Street - The Carroll Building (item 5559) - The Causeway Under Construction (item 5084) - Central Filling Station - Tydol Service Station on Clark Point Road (item 5225) - John R. Tinker House (item 7348) - Southwest Harbor Motor Co. (item 10247) - The Southwest Harbor Congregational Church (item 11229)
14689Main Street, Southwest Harbor
  • Reference
  • Places, Town
  • Southwest Harbor
“In 1897, the different societies in the village combined to raise funds for street lights. The lamps were bought and placed near those houses whose owners were willing to furnish the kerosene and keep the lamps trimmed and lighted. These lamps did duty until the installation of electricity in the summer of 1917.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 124.
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“In 1897, the different societies in the village combined to raise funds for street lights. The lamps were bought and placed near those houses whose owners were willing to furnish the kerosene and keep the lamps trimmed and lighted. These lamps did duty until the installation of electricity in the summer of 1917.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 124. [show more]
16483Southwest Harbor looking East from Little Island
  • Image, Art, Painting
  • Places, Harbor
  • Places, Town
  • Lenhard - Mary Emma Wamsley (Lenhard) Coates (1900-1983)
The Coast Station is shown at the left, and the Hinckley Boat Yard and the Elizabeth Febiger Spahr House are shown at the right.
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The Coast Station is shown at the left, and the Hinckley Boat Yard and the Elizabeth Febiger Spahr House are shown at the right.
16090Winter Scene at Hall Quarry, Me
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Town
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
16130Southwest Harbor, Maine. Main Street Looking South.
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Town
  • Southwest Harbor
16088Outer Long Island, off Mt. Desert, Me.
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Town
  • C.E. Cook, Bangor, Maine
  • Frenchboro
11134Clark Point Road with a View of Manset
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Shore
  • Places, Town
  • D. L. Mayo's Cash Store
  • Southwest Harbor
12915Pickering Square
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  • Places, Town
  • Bangor ME
Pickering Square is bordered by Water Street and Merchants Plaza in downtown Bangor between Main Street and the Kenduskeag Stream. Now succumbed to urban renewal, historically it was the site of an open air market.
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Pickering Square is bordered by Water Street and Merchants Plaza in downtown Bangor between Main Street and the Kenduskeag Stream. Now succumbed to urban renewal, historically it was the site of an open air market.
6565McMullen Avenue, McKinley, Maine
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Town
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
Buildings - Left to Right: Unknown darker house behind a small tree Francis McMullin Sr. House (the large white house behind a tree) Dora E. Torrey House - 14 McMullen Avenue H.G. Reed Store - Harbor Avenue (Route 102 A) at the corner of McMullen Avenue
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Buildings - Left to Right: Unknown darker house behind a small tree Francis McMullin Sr. House (the large white house behind a tree) Dora E. Torrey House - 14 McMullen Avenue H.G. Reed Store - Harbor Avenue (Route 102 A) at the corner of McMullen Avenue
9394Main Street Looking South
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Places, Town
  • Southwest Harbor
9323Aerial View of Bass Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Town
  • Phillips - Augustus Dewey Phillips (1898-1975)
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
Bass Harbor, Maine near the southern point of Mount Desert Island. Air view shows lobster boats, the Swans Island Ferry Terminal, the Wyman Packing Co. Factory in Bass Harbor Village and Mount Desert Hills in Acadia National Park.
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Bass Harbor, Maine near the southern point of Mount Desert Island. Air view shows lobster boats, the Swans Island Ferry Terminal, the Wyman Packing Co. Factory in Bass Harbor Village and Mount Desert Hills in Acadia National Park.
7439Main Street, Fairfield
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Town
  • Main Street, Fairfield
7412Main Street, Ellsworth
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Town
  • Ellsworth ME
7402Panorama of Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Panorama
  • Places, Town
  • Bar Harbor, Eden
7157Great Gott Island Village
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Town
  • Tremont, Great Gott Island
7126View of Boothbay Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Town
  • Boothbay Harbor ME
7128Bucksport, Waterfront
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Town
  • Bucksport ME
7125West Jonesport - Main Street
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Town
  • Jonesport ME
  • Main Street
9401Main Street, Southwest Harbor, Maine - Looking North
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Town
  • Southwest Harbor
7290View of West Tremont
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Town
Identities of the four most visible houses in the photograph. Left to Right: William G. “Bill Gill” Norwood (1833-1899) house at 719 Tremont Road, Map 5 – Lot 93, West Tremont. Note – the property is shown on the Salem Town map as Lot #21. William “Billy” H. Webster (1873-1943) house at 16 Horseshoe Road, Map 5 – Lot 91, West Tremont. Capt. Nathan Adam Reed (1823-) house at 23 Horseshoe Road, Map 6 – Lot 1, West Tremont. Henry Thomas Webster (1843-1914) house at 26 Webster Lane, Map 5 – Lot 94, West Tremont – burned in the 1940s.
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Identities of the four most visible houses in the photograph. Left to Right: William G. “Bill Gill” Norwood (1833-1899) house at 719 Tremont Road, Map 5 – Lot 93, West Tremont. Note – the property is shown on the Salem Town map as Lot #21. William “Billy” H. Webster (1873-1943) house at 16 Horseshoe Road, Map 5 – Lot 91, West Tremont. Capt. Nathan Adam Reed (1823-) house at 23 Horseshoe Road, Map 6 – Lot 1, West Tremont. Henry Thomas Webster (1843-1914) house at 26 Webster Lane, Map 5 – Lot 94, West Tremont – burned in the 1940s. [show more]
15331Village of Blue Hill
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  • Places, Town
  • Blue Hill ME
15165Magnolia, Massachusetts
  • Reference
  • Places, Town
"Just over the Manchester [Massachusetts] line in the western section of Gloucester is the major portion of the village of Magnolia at Magnolia Point, long one of the North Shore's most important hospitality tourism destinations… Originally a fishing and farming settlement, Magnolia had its beginnings as a summer resort center in the early 1870s with the construction of the first summer cottages there…" - “Summer By The Seaside: The Architecture of New England Coastal Resort Hotels, 1820-1950” by Bryant F. Tolles, Jr., p. 99, University Press of New England – 2008
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"Just over the Manchester [Massachusetts] line in the western section of Gloucester is the major portion of the village of Magnolia at Magnolia Point, long one of the North Shore's most important hospitality tourism destinations… Originally a fishing and farming settlement, Magnolia had its beginnings as a summer resort center in the early 1870s with the construction of the first summer cottages there…" - “Summer By The Seaside: The Architecture of New England Coastal Resort Hotels, 1820-1950” by Bryant F. Tolles, Jr., p. 99, University Press of New England – 2008 [show more]
14816Brooks, Maine
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  • Places, Town
  • Brooks ME
14775Town of Tremont
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  • Places, Town
  • Tremont