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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date Place Address Description
6780The Claremont House
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1906 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 20 Claremont Road
The Claremont House
Item:
  • 6780   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
Publisher:
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
Date:
  • 1906 c.
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 20 Claremont Road
Source:
  • Collection of the Clark Family
10935The McKinley School
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Institutional, School
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1908-12-17 PM
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
  • 175 Harbor Drive
Made in Germany
The McKinley School
Item:
  • 10935   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Structures, Institutional, School
Publisher:
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
Date:
  • 1908-12-17 PM
Place:
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 175 Harbor Drive
Description:
Made in Germany
5633The Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Civic, Library
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1900 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 338 Main Street
Mailed to: Miss Carmelita Freeman ME General Hospital, Portland, ME. Oct. 1911
The Southwest Harbor Public Library
Item:
  • 5633   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Structures, Civic, Library
Publisher:
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
Date:
  • 1900 c.
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 338 Main Street
Source:
  • The Ward Family Collection
Description:
Mailed to: Miss Carmelita Freeman ME General Hospital, Portland, ME. Oct. 1911
6099The Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Civic, Library
  • A.I. Holmes
  • 1900 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 338 Main Street
A postcard featuring the Southwest Harbor Public Library - Circa 1900
The Southwest Harbor Public Library
Item:
  • 6099   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Structures, Civic, Library
Publisher:
  • A.I. Holmes
Date:
  • 1900 c.
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 338 Main Street
Source:
  • Gift from Elsie Mae Phillips Marshall, Mrs. Roscoe C. Marshall - 1985.
Description:
A postcard featuring the Southwest Harbor Public Library - Circa 1900
6732St. Saviour's Episcopal Church and Rectory
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1906 c.
  • Bar Harbor
  • 41 Mount Desert Street
St. Saviour's Episcopal Church and Rectory
Item:
  • 6732   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
Publisher:
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
Date:
  • 1906 c.
Place:
  • Bar Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 41 Mount Desert Street
Source:
  • Collection of the Clark Family
Tags:
building
6230The Ocean House Hotel, Manset
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • W.M. Prilay, Pittsfield, Me.
  • 1908 c.
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • 5 Ocean House Road
This photograph shows the enlarged hotel before the Ocean House Annex / Cottage was moved across the road from the hotel.
The Ocean House Hotel, Manset
Item:
  • 6230   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
Publisher:
  • W.M. Prilay, Pittsfield, Me.
Date:
  • 1908 c.
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 5 Ocean House Road
Description:
This photograph shows the enlarged hotel before the Ocean House Annex / Cottage was moved across the road from the hotel.
12736Lafayette National Park - Precipice Path, Champlain Mountain, Bar Harbor, Me.
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Hiking Trail
  • Places, Mountain
  • Curt Teich Co., Chicago, Illinois
  • 1908 c.
  • Acadia National Park, Lafayette National Park
  • Precipice Trail
Media: Tinted halftone Mailed to: Mrs. Dora Ward B.H. Hospital Bar Harbor, Maine Dec. 3, 1925 Signed: Mrs. Sargent Hull’s Cove Mailed to: Miss Lottie King Manset, Maine Signed: Easter Greeting from E.F. Ward Apr. 15, 1911
Lafayette National Park - Precipice Path, Champlain Mountain, Bar Harbor, Me.
Item:
  • 12736   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Places, Hiking Trail
  • Places, Mountain
Publisher:
  • Curt Teich Co., Chicago, Illinois
Date:
  • 1908 c.
Place:
  • Acadia National Park, Lafayette National Park
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • Precipice Trail
Source:
  • The Ward Family Collection
Description:
Media: Tinted halftone Mailed to: Mrs. Dora Ward B.H. Hospital Bar Harbor, Maine Dec. 3, 1925 Signed: Mrs. Sargent Hull’s Cove Mailed to: Miss Lottie King Manset, Maine Signed: Easter Greeting from E.F. Ward Apr. 15, 1911
6723Anemone Cave - Acadia National Park
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places
  • Chisholm Brothers, Portland, Maine
  • 1905-06-02
  • Acadia National Park
  • Schooner Head
Anemone Cave - Acadia National Park
Item:
  • 6723   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Places
Publisher:
  • Chisholm Brothers, Portland, Maine
Date:
  • 1905-06-02
Place:
  • Acadia National Park
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • Schooner Head
Source:
  • Collection of the Clark Family
10731Site of the old Durgain Wharf, Manset
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1908 PM
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • 37 Shore Road
Printed in Germany
Site of the old Durgain Wharf, Manset
Item:
  • 10731   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Places
Publisher:
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
Date:
  • 1908 PM
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 37 Shore Road
Description:
Printed in Germany
12460View near Somes Sound, Southwest Harbor, So. West Harbor, Me.
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Sound
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • The Robbins Bros. Co., Boston, Mass. and Germany
  • 1909-07-02
  • Mount Desert
  • Somes Sound
Contrast the postcard view, titled "Entrance Somes Sound, North East Harbor, Me." in SWHPL 7010 with that of SWHPL 12460, which bears the title, "View near Somes Sound, So. West Harbor, Me." Both cards show the Nathaniel Gott House on Greenings Island. The image in SWHPL 12460 would be to the left or south of that in SWHPL 7010 if viewed from the water near Sutton Island. The title is misprinted on this card. It reads, "View near Somers Sound, So. West Harbor, Me." "Gladys" mailed the card to Miss Nena Reed in Seal Harbor from Center, Tremont, Maine on July 2, 1909.
View near Somes Sound, Southwest Harbor, So. West Harbor, Me.
Item:
  • 12460   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Places, Sound
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
Publisher:
  • The Robbins Bros. Co., Boston, Mass. and Germany
Date:
  • 1909-07-02
Place:
  • Mount Desert
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • Somes Sound
Description:
Contrast the postcard view, titled "Entrance Somes Sound, North East Harbor, Me." in SWHPL 7010 with that of SWHPL 12460, which bears the title, "View near Somes Sound, So. West Harbor, Me." Both cards show the Nathaniel Gott House on Greenings Island. The image in SWHPL 12460 would be to the left or south of that in SWHPL 7010 if viewed from the water near Sutton Island. The title is misprinted on this card. It reads, "View near Somers Sound, So. West Harbor, Me." "Gladys" mailed the card to Miss Nena Reed in Seal Harbor from Center, Tremont, Maine on July 2, 1909. [show more]
7022Public Library, Ellsworth, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Civic, Library
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1906 c.
  • Ellsworth ME
  • State Street
Public Library, Ellsworth, Maine
Item:
  • 7022   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Structures, Civic, Library
Publisher:
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
Date:
  • 1906 c.
Place:
  • Ellsworth ME
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • State Street
Tags:
tinted
6822The Methodist Church and Parsonage, Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1906 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 19 - 20 Wesley Avenue
Printed in Frankfurt On Main, Germany
The Methodist Church and Parsonage, Southwest Harbor
Item:
  • 6822   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
Publisher:
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
Date:
  • 1906 c.
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 19 - 20 Wesley Avenue
Tags:
parsonage, building, church
Description:
Printed in Frankfurt On Main, Germany
7020State Street, Ellsworth, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Other Structures
  • J.A. Thompson
  • 1906 PM
State Street, Ellsworth, Maine
Item:
  • 7020   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Structures, Other Structures
Publisher:
  • J.A. Thompson
Date:
  • 1906 PM
State:
  • ME
Tags:
street, people, horse, carriage, building
7493Hammond Street, Bangor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Town
  • O. Crosby Bean Souvenir Goods, Bangor, Maine
  • 1906 PM
  • Bangor ME
Made in Germany for O. Crosby Bean, Bangor, Maine.
Hammond Street, Bangor, Maine
Item:
  • 7493   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Places, Town
Publisher:
  • O. Crosby Bean Souvenir Goods, Bangor, Maine
Date:
  • 1906 PM
Place:
  • Bangor ME
State:
  • ME
Tags:
building, street
Description:
Made in Germany for O. Crosby Bean, Bangor, Maine.
9505Paradise Cove, Somes Sound, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Landscape
  • Ralph - John C. Ralph (1868-1949)
  • 1905 c.
  • Mount Desert, Sound
Mailed to: Miss Frances King Manset, Maine Text reads: “Glad your mother is better. Will write soon. Love to yourself and mother. M. W.” Nov. 9, 1905 Mailed to: Miss Lottie King Manset, Maine Sep. 2, 1906
Paradise Cove, Somes Sound, Maine
Item:
  • 9505   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Places, Landscape
Creator:
  • Ralph - John C. Ralph (1868-1949)
Date:
  • 1905 c.
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Sound
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • The Ward Family Collection
Description:
Mailed to: Miss Frances King Manset, Maine Text reads: “Glad your mother is better. Will write soon. Love to yourself and mother. M. W.” Nov. 9, 1905 Mailed to: Miss Lottie King Manset, Maine Sep. 2, 1906
6850Sabin Woolworth Colton Cottage, "Faraway," Greening Island
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • 1906
  • Southwest Harbor, Greening Island
Postcard has hand-written message "Aug 20, 1906 Mary Thanks for the card. When are you coming home? Yours with love L.V.M."
Sabin Woolworth Colton Cottage, "Faraway," Greening Island
Item:
  • 6850   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
Date:
  • 1906
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor, Greening Island
State:
  • ME
Description:
Postcard has hand-written message "Aug 20, 1906 Mary Thanks for the card. When are you coming home? Yours with love L.V.M."
10052View of Eden, Maine with a Weir in the Foreground
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Town
  • Detroit Photographic Co.
  • 1903
  • Bar Harbor, Eden
View of Eden, Maine with a Weir in the Foreground
Item:
  • 10052   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Places, Town
Publisher:
  • Detroit Photographic Co.
Date:
  • 1903
Place:
  • Bar Harbor, Eden
State:
  • ME
Tags:
weir, tinted
10706Panoramic View of Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Town
  • Bradley - Henry Lee Bradley (1875-1940)
  • 1903
  • Bar Harbor, Eden
Panoramic View of Bar Harbor, Maine
Item:
  • 10706   
Accession #:
  • 1034
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Places, Town
Creator:
  • Bradley - Henry Lee Bradley (1875-1940)
Date:
  • 1903
Place:
  • Bar Harbor, Eden
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Miles W. Weaver Postcard Collection
7517Village of North Haven, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Town
  • G.W. Morris, Portland, Maine
  • 1906
  • North Haven ME
Printed in Germany
Village of North Haven, Maine
Item:
  • 7517   
Accession #:
  • 1023
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Places, Town
Publisher:
  • G.W. Morris, Portland, Maine
Date:
  • 1906
Place:
  • North Haven ME
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Eleanor R. Mayo Collection
Description:
Printed in Germany
11561View from the Newport House at Bar Harbor and the Mount Desert Reading Room
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • Private Mailing Card Authorized by Act of Congress of May 19, 1898
  • 1900 PM
  • Bar Harbor, Eden
View from the Newport House at Bar Harbor and the Mount Desert Reading Room
Item:
  • 11561   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
Creator:
  • Private Mailing Card Authorized by Act of Congress of May 19, 1898
Date:
  • 1900 PM
Place:
  • Bar Harbor, Eden
State:
  • ME
6713View of Somes Sound, Southwest Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Harbor
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1906 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
View of Somes Sound, Southwest Harbor, Maine
Item:
  • 6713   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Places, Harbor
Publisher:
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
Date:
  • 1906 c.
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Collection of the Clark Family
6716Eastern Maine General Hospital and Penobscot River, Bangor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1907 c.
  • Bangor ME
Eastern Maine General Hospital and Penobscot River, Bangor, Maine
Item:
  • 6716   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Places
Publisher:
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
Date:
  • 1907 c.
Place:
  • Bangor ME
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Collection of the Clark Family
6722Steamer Norumbega at Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1906 c.
  • Bar Harbor
Steamer Norumbega at Bar Harbor, Maine
Item:
  • 6722   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
Publisher:
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
Date:
  • 1906 c.
Place:
  • Bar Harbor
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Collection of the Clark Family
6729Hotel Florence and Village Green, Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1906 c.
  • Bar Harbor
“…the…Hotel Porcupine, later the Florence (1887; burned, 1918), a Main Street, five-story rectangular block with Shingle-style features and a strong sense of verticality represented by its stacked window bays, bay roof caps, steep-pitched roof planes, and tall, corbelled brick chimneys…represented [with the larger Malvern Hotel] an impressive conclusion to Bar Harbor’s opulent Victorian hotel era.” - “Summer By The Seaside: The Architecture of New England Coastal Resort Hotels, 1820-1950” by Bryant F. Tolles, Jr., p. 165, 170, University Press of New England – 2008 - An excellent study including information about The Island House in Southwest Harbor and its place in the range of hotels on the island during this period along with a very complete history of many of the Bar Harbor hotels. "For the origins and summary of the Bar Harbor hotel scene and the social life that surrounded it, including the first visit of the fleet to Bar Harbor see – “Bar Harbor: The Hotel Era, 1868-1880” by Richard A. Savage, Chapter 17, p. 226 in “Maine – A History Through Selected Readings” edited by David C. Smith and Edward O. Schriver – 1985 The article originally appeared in the “Maine Historical Society Newsletter,” Vol. 10, No.4, May 1971, pp. 101-121 For the complete story of the Leightons and Maine postcards see: ""Greetings from Maine: A Postcard Album"" by R. Brewster Harding, published by Old Port Publishing Co., Portland, 1975 - ""Turn of the Century Views of America's Pine Tree State as recorded by Portland's Picture Postcard Pioneers, Chisholm Bros., the Hugh C. Leighton Co., the Geo. W. Morris Co. and others 1888-1915. This book appears to be the source for other published information on the subject."
Hotel Florence and Village Green, Bar Harbor, Maine
Item:
  • 6729   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
Publisher:
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
Date:
  • 1906 c.
Place:
  • Bar Harbor
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Collection of the Clark Family
Description:
“…the…Hotel Porcupine, later the Florence (1887; burned, 1918), a Main Street, five-story rectangular block with Shingle-style features and a strong sense of verticality represented by its stacked window bays, bay roof caps, steep-pitched roof planes, and tall, corbelled brick chimneys…represented [with the larger Malvern Hotel] an impressive conclusion to Bar Harbor’s opulent Victorian hotel era.” - “Summer By The Seaside: The Architecture of New England Coastal Resort Hotels, 1820-1950” by Bryant F. Tolles, Jr., p. 165, 170, University Press of New England – 2008 - An excellent study including information about The Island House in Southwest Harbor and its place in the range of hotels on the island during this period along with a very complete history of many of the Bar Harbor hotels. "For the origins and summary of the Bar Harbor hotel scene and the social life that surrounded it, including the first visit of the fleet to Bar Harbor see – “Bar Harbor: The Hotel Era, 1868-1880” by Richard A. Savage, Chapter 17, p. 226 in “Maine – A History Through Selected Readings” edited by David C. Smith and Edward O. Schriver – 1985 The article originally appeared in the “Maine Historical Society Newsletter,” Vol. 10, No.4, May 1971, pp. 101-121 For the complete story of the Leightons and Maine postcards see: ""Greetings from Maine: A Postcard Album"" by R. Brewster Harding, published by Old Port Publishing Co., Portland, 1975 - ""Turn of the Century Views of America's Pine Tree State as recorded by Portland's Picture Postcard Pioneers, Chisholm Bros., the Hugh C. Leighton Co., the Geo. W. Morris Co. and others 1888-1915. This book appears to be the source for other published information on the subject." [show more]
6870Steamer J.T. Morse
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1908 PM
Steamer J.T. Morse
Item:
  • 6870   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
Publisher:
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
Date:
  • 1908 PM
State:
  • ME