"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
Description: "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
"THE BANGOR AND BAR HARBOR LINE - BANGOR AND BAR HARBOR SB'T CO., STEAMERS: CIMBIA, SEDGWICK, TREMONT - Only line of steamers running between Bar Harbor and Bangor. Landings made at Seal Harbor, N. E. Harbor, S.W. Harbor, Sedgwick, Deer Isle, Isleboro, Castine, Fort Point and all landings on Penobscot River. Navigating the waters of Frenchman's Bay, Blue Hill Bay, Eggemoggin Reach, Penobscot Bay and River. - SCENERY UNSURPASSED - Steamers leave Bar Harbor Daily, except Sunday, at 7 a.m., arriving at Bangor at 5 p.m. Excellent meals served on board. Send card for time tables and maps of route. BEO. H. BARBOUR, President, H.W. Barbour, Manager, F.D. Pullen, Gen'l Ticket Agt. - Office: Bangor, Me." - The advertisement appeared in A Guide to Bar Harbor published by W.H. Sherman, p. 85 - 1897
Description: "THE BANGOR AND BAR HARBOR LINE - BANGOR AND BAR HARBOR SB'T CO., STEAMERS: CIMBIA, SEDGWICK, TREMONT - Only line of steamers running between Bar Harbor and Bangor. Landings made at Seal Harbor, N. E. Harbor, S.W. Harbor, Sedgwick, Deer Isle, Isleboro, Castine, Fort Point and all landings on Penobscot River. Navigating the waters of Frenchman's Bay, Blue Hill Bay, Eggemoggin Reach, Penobscot Bay and River. - SCENERY UNSURPASSED - Steamers leave Bar Harbor Daily, except Sunday, at 7 a.m., arriving at Bangor at 5 p.m. Excellent meals served on board. Send card for time tables and maps of route. BEO. H. BARBOUR, President, H.W. Barbour, Manager, F.D. Pullen, Gen'l Ticket Agt. - Office: Bangor, Me." - The advertisement appeared in A Guide to Bar Harbor published by W.H. Sherman, p. 85 - 1897 [show more]
In 1894 Arno Preston Stanley (1865-1937) wrote a letter to his fourth cousin, Mabelle Estelle Stanley (1868-1955), daughter of Robert S. Stanley and Phoebe Jane (Gilley) Stanley, [both descended from Sans Stanley (1702-) and Mary (Charder) Stanley (1706-1748)] and asked for her hand in marriage: "Dear Mabel I love you with all my heart and I am willing to part with all on earth for your presents if you will join with me now at the present time but after you read this, and don’t see fit to join with me I will say no more about it and give up and die in despair I shall feel as if I have not a friend on earth if you say no if you choose others ways I hope you will be happy Through life and when I die I hope to meet with you in heaven if god is willing for me to please write on this peper and give me ether way you choose This is the way I feel I trust in god that we may be happy through life if you ascept please answer yes or no and give me this piece of peper back Yours Truly Arno. P. Stanley Live or die I shall think of you as a friend and one that love you well and you may think as you please" Mabelle added a penciled note, “Yes Dear,” in the space provided in his letter. They filed their intention to marry on October 25, 1894 and were married on November 3, 1894 at Cranberry Isles. Mabelle died on March 24, 1955, at the age of 86, at the Bay View Nursing Home in South Portland, Maine. She had saved the hopeful, loving letter Arno had written to her 61 years before. Her family buried her near Arno in the Stanley Cemetery No. 3 (Map 6 – Lot 1), Great Cranberry Island, Maine. Arno would have been living at his father, Enoch Boynton Stanley's house at Great Cranberry Island when he wrote the letter. Mabel's name was spelled Mabelle on her gravestone and curators use that spelling, but have left Arno's Mabel as it appears in his letter. Arno and Mabel's grandson, Ralph Warren Stanley, surmises that she was known as Mabel and that her relatives put on airs when they changed it to Mabelle on her gravestone.
Description: In 1894 Arno Preston Stanley (1865-1937) wrote a letter to his fourth cousin, Mabelle Estelle Stanley (1868-1955), daughter of Robert S. Stanley and Phoebe Jane (Gilley) Stanley, [both descended from Sans Stanley (1702-) and Mary (Charder) Stanley (1706-1748)] and asked for her hand in marriage: "Dear Mabel I love you with all my heart and I am willing to part with all on earth for your presents if you will join with me now at the present time but after you read this, and don’t see fit to join with me I will say no more about it and give up and die in despair I shall feel as if I have not a friend on earth if you say no if you choose others ways I hope you will be happy Through life and when I die I hope to meet with you in heaven if god is willing for me to please write on this peper and give me ether way you choose This is the way I feel I trust in god that we may be happy through life if you ascept please answer yes or no and give me this piece of peper back Yours Truly Arno. P. Stanley Live or die I shall think of you as a friend and one that love you well and you may think as you please" Mabelle added a penciled note, “Yes Dear,” in the space provided in his letter. They filed their intention to marry on October 25, 1894 and were married on November 3, 1894 at Cranberry Isles. Mabelle died on March 24, 1955, at the age of 86, at the Bay View Nursing Home in South Portland, Maine. She had saved the hopeful, loving letter Arno had written to her 61 years before. Her family buried her near Arno in the Stanley Cemetery No. 3 (Map 6 – Lot 1), Great Cranberry Island, Maine. Arno would have been living at his father, Enoch Boynton Stanley's house at Great Cranberry Island when he wrote the letter. Mabel's name was spelled Mabelle on her gravestone and curators use that spelling, but have left Arno's Mabel as it appears in his letter. Arno and Mabel's grandson, Ralph Warren Stanley, surmises that she was known as Mabel and that her relatives put on airs when they changed it to Mabelle on her gravestone. [show more]
The ladies probably served: Corn Chowder - "Husked Common Affliction, Lacteal Fluid" Cake - "You can't eat it and have it too." Cherry Pie - "Berries from a Tree" Apple Pie - "Eve's Temptation" Coffee - "Milkman's Friend"
Description: The ladies probably served: Corn Chowder - "Husked Common Affliction, Lacteal Fluid" Cake - "You can't eat it and have it too." Cherry Pie - "Berries from a Tree" Apple Pie - "Eve's Temptation" Coffee - "Milkman's Friend"
Architect's plans from a book of mail order church plans published by Benjamin D. Price in 1892. The small wing shown on the left in the drawing was altered slightly and built on the right in Southwest Harbor.
Description: Architect's plans from a book of mail order church plans published by Benjamin D. Price in 1892. The small wing shown on the left in the drawing was altered slightly and built on the right in Southwest Harbor.
Vessel Name - S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm II Renamed 1900 - Hohenzollern Class – Passenger Steamship Hull - Steel Masts - 4 Designed by – Build date – 1889 Launched – April 23, 1889 Built by – A.G. Vulcan Built at – Stettin, Germany Built for – North American Lloyd Steamship Company Named for – Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht von Preußen; Frederick William Victor Albert of Prussia (1859-1941) Power – Steam – Triple expansion engines, 1 screw, 2 funnels – 16 knots Gross tons – 4,773 – after 1892 rebuild – 6,661 Capacity – 1,200 passengers Length – 450’ Beam – 51’ Draught - Crew – Grounded on May 10, 1908 at Alghero, Sardinia. Refloated and sold for scrap in Italy.
Description: Vessel Name - S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm II Renamed 1900 - Hohenzollern Class – Passenger Steamship Hull - Steel Masts - 4 Designed by – Build date – 1889 Launched – April 23, 1889 Built by – A.G. Vulcan Built at – Stettin, Germany Built for – North American Lloyd Steamship Company Named for – Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht von Preußen; Frederick William Victor Albert of Prussia (1859-1941) Power – Steam – Triple expansion engines, 1 screw, 2 funnels – 16 knots Gross tons – 4,773 – after 1892 rebuild – 6,661 Capacity – 1,200 passengers Length – 450’ Beam – 51’ Draught - Crew – Grounded on May 10, 1908 at Alghero, Sardinia. Refloated and sold for scrap in Italy. [show more]
This magic lantern slide, “Maine Coast at Bar Harbor,” is an example of slides used as education tools by universities, The University of the State of New York in this case. Photograph was taken from the top of Cadillac Mountain.
Description: This magic lantern slide, “Maine Coast at Bar Harbor,” is an example of slides used as education tools by universities, The University of the State of New York in this case. Photograph was taken from the top of Cadillac Mountain.
There are several street lamps visible in the photograph - the one on the right is different from the others. The lamp post on the left is at the corner of Clark Point Road. The building with the overhang beyond it is the Odd Fellows building. The building on the right is J.C. Ralph's Studio - Optician and Jeweler - and the Post Office. A man is standing in the door of the Post Office and a man standing in front of Ralph's Studio. The photograph was taken soon after John Ralph moved his store and expanded it. “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.
Description: There are several street lamps visible in the photograph - the one on the right is different from the others. The lamp post on the left is at the corner of Clark Point Road. The building with the overhang beyond it is the Odd Fellows building. The building on the right is J.C. Ralph's Studio - Optician and Jeweler - and the Post Office. A man is standing in the door of the Post Office and a man standing in front of Ralph's Studio. The photograph was taken soon after John Ralph moved his store and expanded it. “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]