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12133Acadia National Park - Jordan Pond House - 50th Anniversary Tea - Rolls Royce Saloon Parked in the Field
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1945-08-21
  • Acadia National Park
  • Jordan Pond House
13316Green Mountain Railway
  • Reference
  • Places, Mountain
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
"GREEN MOUNTAIN - One of the chief points of interest on Mount Desert is Green Mountain, the highest point on the Island. Some ambitious persons make the ascent on foot, and that can best be done by way of the ruins of the old mill near the foot of Mount Kebo, and then by way of the ravine that separates Green from Dry Mountain. But by far the largest number prefer to go by the regular conveyance furnished by the Green Mountain Railway, which is by carriage to Eagle Lake, thence by steamer up the lake to the base, then by railway to the summit. This gives variety to the trip, and renders it a most enjoyable one. A clear, bright morning should be selected for this excursion, when objects can be seen at a great distance. The railway itself is a marvel of engineering skill, the entire length of the road being six thousand three hundred feet, and the grade averaging one foot to every four feet passed over. There is a good hotel at the summit which will accommodate about thirty guests. The view from Green Mountain, on a clear morning, is one never to be forgotten. The coast line with it many sinuosities, the numerous smaller islands scattered here and there, Mount Desert spread out like a map, and the island landscape with its diversity of views, all go to make up a succession of the grandest pictures imaginable…" - "Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island" by William Berry Lapham, p. 16 - 1887. "GREEN MOUNTAIN RAILWAY. No person should visit Bar Harbor without ascending Green Mountain by way of Eagle Lake and the Green Mountain Railway. The trip to Eagle Lake, three miles, is made in four-horse barges, which call for passengers at the principal hotels every week day morning during the season. The trip across Eagle Lake to the foot of the mountain is by steamer. The journey up the mountain and the magnificent outlook from the summit…" - Part of an advertisement appearing in Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island By William Berry Lapham – 1887. "I went up and back once about the year 1890 and there was 19 other young people from South West Harbor." - Robie M. Norwood. See “The Story of Bar Harbor – An Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years In the Life of a Community,” by Richard Walden Hale, Jr., p. 155-160, Ives Washburn, Inc., 1949 for an excellent version of the story of the Green Mountain Railway.
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"GREEN MOUNTAIN - One of the chief points of interest on Mount Desert is Green Mountain, the highest point on the Island. Some ambitious persons make the ascent on foot, and that can best be done by way of the ruins of the old mill near the foot of Mount Kebo, and then by way of the ravine that separates Green from Dry Mountain. But by far the largest number prefer to go by the regular conveyance furnished by the Green Mountain Railway, which is by carriage to Eagle Lake, thence by steamer up the lake to the base, then by railway to the summit. This gives variety to the trip, and renders it a most enjoyable one. A clear, bright morning should be selected for this excursion, when objects can be seen at a great distance. The railway itself is a marvel of engineering skill, the entire length of the road being six thousand three hundred feet, and the grade averaging one foot to every four feet passed over. There is a good hotel at the summit which will accommodate about thirty guests. The view from Green Mountain, on a clear morning, is one never to be forgotten. The coast line with it many sinuosities, the numerous smaller islands scattered here and there, Mount Desert spread out like a map, and the island landscape with its diversity of views, all go to make up a succession of the grandest pictures imaginable…" - "Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island" by William Berry Lapham, p. 16 - 1887. "GREEN MOUNTAIN RAILWAY. No person should visit Bar Harbor without ascending Green Mountain by way of Eagle Lake and the Green Mountain Railway. The trip to Eagle Lake, three miles, is made in four-horse barges, which call for passengers at the principal hotels every week day morning during the season. The trip across Eagle Lake to the foot of the mountain is by steamer. The journey up the mountain and the magnificent outlook from the summit…" - Part of an advertisement appearing in Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island By William Berry Lapham – 1887. "I went up and back once about the year 1890 and there was 19 other young people from South West Harbor." - Robie M. Norwood. See “The Story of Bar Harbor – An Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years In the Life of a Community,” by Richard Walden Hale, Jr., p. 155-160, Ives Washburn, Inc., 1949 for an excellent version of the story of the Green Mountain Railway. [show more]
5660Green Mountain Railway - View from Green Mountain to Steamboat Wharf on Eagle Lake
  • Image, Photograph
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • Bradley - Bryant Bradley (1838-1890)
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
5661Green Mountain Railway
  • Image, Photograph
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • Bradley - Bryant Bradley (1838-1890)
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
5534Green Mountain Railway
  • Image, Photograph
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
5536Green Mountain Railway
  • Image, Photograph
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
5537Green Mountain Railway
  • Image, Photograph
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • 1882
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
6329Green Mountain Railway Terminal at Eagle Lake
  • Image, Photograph
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • 1880 c.
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
6330Green Mountain Railway
  • Image, Photograph
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • 1883
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
12747Buckboard Party Passing Sand Beach
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Places, Shore
  • Transportation, Carriage
  • 1888-07-21
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
  • Sand Beach
From July 12 to July 24, 1888 a party of twenty young people who attended Westtown [Quaker] School vacationed on Mount Desert Island. The young people stayed at The Roberts House hotel in Northeast Harbor from July 14, 1888 to July 23, 1888. They wrote and privately published a journal of their adventures, with one person writing each chapter. The journal was illustrated with photographs hand tipped in to the pages. Judy and Peter Obbard, longtime summer residents of Southwest Harbor, have kindly loaned their copy of “Mount Desert Memories” to the Southwest Harbor Public Library to study. Here in the Tenth Day Chapter, written by Anna Helena Goodwin, the young people, aboard a buckboard, passed Sand Beach on July 21, 1888 Goodwin – Anna Helena Goodwin (1862-1958)
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From July 12 to July 24, 1888 a party of twenty young people who attended Westtown [Quaker] School vacationed on Mount Desert Island. The young people stayed at The Roberts House hotel in Northeast Harbor from July 14, 1888 to July 23, 1888. They wrote and privately published a journal of their adventures, with one person writing each chapter. The journal was illustrated with photographs hand tipped in to the pages. Judy and Peter Obbard, longtime summer residents of Southwest Harbor, have kindly loaned their copy of “Mount Desert Memories” to the Southwest Harbor Public Library to study. Here in the Tenth Day Chapter, written by Anna Helena Goodwin, the young people, aboard a buckboard, passed Sand Beach on July 21, 1888 Goodwin – Anna Helena Goodwin (1862-1958) [show more]
11248Postcard showing Green Mountain Railway, Mt. Desert, Maine and Sternwheel Steamer "Wauwinet"
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • 1880 c.
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
12451James Francis Frank Carroll, William Lloyd Carroll and Helena Nellie Thornton Carroll
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • 1941 c.
  • Bangor ME
16522George Lyman Hinckley's Airplane
  • Image, Photograph
  • Transportation, Aircraft
  • Bangor ME
  • Bangor Airport
7484Simeon Holden Mayo and his 1907 Maxwell Automobile at the Florence Hotel, Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • 1908
  • Bar Harbor
6335W.H. Davis, Bar Harbor Buckboard Builder Advertisement
  • Document, Advertising, Advertisement
  • Transportation, Carriage
  • Ware Brothers, Philadelphia
  • 1897
  • Bar Harbor
"Famous Tally-Ho Buckboard, Seating Fifteen People including Driver. - All sizes of Bar Harbor Buckboards…Carriage Repairing and Painting of every Description - W.H. Davis, Bar Harbor Buckboard Builder" - An advertisement appearing in A Guide to Bar Harbor published by W.H. Sherman, p. 104 - 1897
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"Famous Tally-Ho Buckboard, Seating Fifteen People including Driver. - All sizes of Bar Harbor Buckboards…Carriage Repairing and Painting of every Description - W.H. Davis, Bar Harbor Buckboard Builder" - An advertisement appearing in A Guide to Bar Harbor published by W.H. Sherman, p. 104 - 1897
9523Opening Day at the Bar Harbor-Yarmouth Ferry Terminal, Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Transportation, Terminal, Marine Terminal
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1956-06-08
  • Bar Harbor
Automobiles along the road at front - Left to Right: The automobile with the hood open is a 1954 Ford Hardtop. 1948 Chrysler 1950-1951 Studebaker Behind tree - 1953 Ford station wagon. W.H. Ballard wrote this note on the negative sleeve for the photograph: "“Bluenose” Ferry Terminal, Bar Harbor, ME; taken the day the Bar Harbor-Yarmouth ferry was officially welcomed (service had been on since the early part of January). Blowing a hard SE gale, and I had to press down so hard on the camera that the tripod sagged. I was the only one who remained on the ridge."
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Automobiles along the road at front - Left to Right: The automobile with the hood open is a 1954 Ford Hardtop. 1948 Chrysler 1950-1951 Studebaker Behind tree - 1953 Ford station wagon. W.H. Ballard wrote this note on the negative sleeve for the photograph: "“Bluenose” Ferry Terminal, Bar Harbor, ME; taken the day the Bar Harbor-Yarmouth ferry was officially welcomed (service had been on since the early part of January). Blowing a hard SE gale, and I had to press down so hard on the camera that the tripod sagged. I was the only one who remained on the ridge." [show more]
6336Buckboard Riding
  • Image, Art, Drawing
  • People
  • Transportation, Wagon
  • Lapham - William Berry Lapham
  • 1887
  • Bar Harbor
Illustration appearing in Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island by William Berry Lapham, P. 58 - 1887.
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Illustration appearing in Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island by William Berry Lapham, P. 58 - 1887.
6740W.H. Davis Bill of Sale to Augustus Clark for a Buckboard
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • Transportation, Carriage, Buckboard
  • 1897-09-22
  • Bar Harbor
7490Elvira Jane (Robinson) Mayo, Lisa Caroline (Mayo) Wilkinson, and Joan Wilkinson in Bennington, Vermont
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • 1919
  • Bennington VT
Automobile is a 1915 Model T Ford
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Automobile is a 1915 Model T Ford
7489Simeon "Sim" Holden Mayo and Joan Wilkinson Loading an Automobile in Bennington, Vermont
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • 1919
  • Bennington VT
The automobile is a 1915 Ford Model T.
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The automobile is a 1915 Ford Model T.
5385Moses Morse Sawin and Sawin's Express on Oxford Street, Cambridge
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • Transportation, Carriage
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1892-04-07
  • Boston MA area, Cambridge
This photograph was taken on Oxford Street, bordering the Harvard University campus, which was 6 blocks southwest from Jennie L. Rand's(Henry Lathrop Rand's mother) house on Kirkland Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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This photograph was taken on Oxford Street, bordering the Harvard University campus, which was 6 blocks southwest from Jennie L. Rand's(Henry Lathrop Rand's mother) house on Kirkland Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
11513Raymond Adelbert Bunker and Wilfred Allison Bunker with Automobiles on the Pool, Great Cranberry
  • Image, Photograph
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • 1942-02-15
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
Automobiles 1936 Ford Pickup Truck 1930 Chevrolet Coupe
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Automobiles 1936 Ford Pickup Truck 1930 Chevrolet Coupe
11514Raymond Adelbert Bunker and Wilfred Allison Bunker with Automobiles on the Pool, Great Cranberry
  • Image, Photograph
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • 1942-02-15
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
Automobiles: 1936 Ford Pickup Truck 1930 Chevrolet Coupe The house on the right in the background is the John Henry Hamor House at 4 Murch Lane
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Automobiles: 1936 Ford Pickup Truck 1930 Chevrolet Coupe The house on the right in the background is the John Henry Hamor House at 4 Murch Lane
8095Design Influence for Southwest Boat Corporation Sou'wester Cruiser
  • Image, Photograph
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • The Ford Motor Company
  • 1937
  • Detroit MI
""Just as it had been Edsel's [Edsel Ford] idea to buy Lincoln to give the company an elegant car to match GM's Cadillac, so in the midthirties, as Ford's competitive position continued to slip, he tried to get a part of the middle-priced market through the Zephyr. The Zephyr began as the Briggs Manufacturing Company ""dream car."" which Edsel saw in prototype at the 1933 automobile show. He was excited by it, having wanted for some time a car in price and quality between the Ford and the Lincoln. He bought the rights from Briggs and then brought in Eugene T. Gregorie, a former boat designer, to carry out his vision of a sleek auto for the middle-class buyer."" - “The Fords: An American Epic” by Peter Collier and David Horowitz, p. 158-159 - illustration #40 - 1987 Apparently design direction worked both ways. ""The design (above the water line) of speed boats of the 30's, 40's and 50's was influenced by automobile design of that era."" - Interview with Charles Morrill - 10/20/08 Morrill - Charles Barrett Morrill (1934-) ""Bink was obsessed with Lincoln Zephyr cars. He stove up three within two weeks. They all had this streamlined look."" - Interview with Ralph Stanley October 20, 2008 A photograph of the Lincoln Zephyr that is supremely evocative of the design era that influenced Bink Sargent appears in “Photographs from the Collection of the Gilman Paper Company,” curated by Pierre Apraxine, with plates by Richard Benson, and notes to the plates by Lee Marks. 480 pp. 199 plates and a frontispiece. Large folio (16 by 18.25 inches), bound in original half maroon calf over linen covered boards, in a slipcase. [Verona: Stamperia Valdonega for] The White Oak Press, 1985. Limited edition of 1200. Copy Number 466 in the collection of the Southwest Harbor Public Library. See: Plate 188, Lincoln Zephyr 1936 by Grancel Fitz (1894–1963) The original photograph, ""Lincoln Zephyr with Graf Zeppelin,"" is in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987.
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""Just as it had been Edsel's [Edsel Ford] idea to buy Lincoln to give the company an elegant car to match GM's Cadillac, so in the midthirties, as Ford's competitive position continued to slip, he tried to get a part of the middle-priced market through the Zephyr. The Zephyr began as the Briggs Manufacturing Company ""dream car."" which Edsel saw in prototype at the 1933 automobile show. He was excited by it, having wanted for some time a car in price and quality between the Ford and the Lincoln. He bought the rights from Briggs and then brought in Eugene T. Gregorie, a former boat designer, to carry out his vision of a sleek auto for the middle-class buyer."" - “The Fords: An American Epic” by Peter Collier and David Horowitz, p. 158-159 - illustration #40 - 1987 Apparently design direction worked both ways. ""The design (above the water line) of speed boats of the 30's, 40's and 50's was influenced by automobile design of that era."" - Interview with Charles Morrill - 10/20/08 Morrill - Charles Barrett Morrill (1934-) ""Bink was obsessed with Lincoln Zephyr cars. He stove up three within two weeks. They all had this streamlined look."" - Interview with Ralph Stanley October 20, 2008 A photograph of the Lincoln Zephyr that is supremely evocative of the design era that influenced Bink Sargent appears in “Photographs from the Collection of the Gilman Paper Company,” curated by Pierre Apraxine, with plates by Richard Benson, and notes to the plates by Lee Marks. 480 pp. 199 plates and a frontispiece. Large folio (16 by 18.25 inches), bound in original half maroon calf over linen covered boards, in a slipcase. [Verona: Stamperia Valdonega for] The White Oak Press, 1985. Limited edition of 1200. Copy Number 466 in the collection of the Southwest Harbor Public Library. See: Plate 188, Lincoln Zephyr 1936 by Grancel Fitz (1894–1963) The original photograph, ""Lincoln Zephyr with Graf Zeppelin,"" is in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987. [show more]
10385George W. Fiske Delivering Mail to Nell Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton at Houlton, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Transportation, Carriage
  • Carroll - Nellie Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton (1871-1958)
  • Houlton ME
  • 26 Charles Street