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6992Garden at Blaireyrie, Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Garden
  • Valentine & Sons Publishing Co.
See “Bygone Bar Harbor: A Postcard Tour of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park” by Earl Brechlin, p. 29 - 2002 See online - “Blair Eyrie 1894-1917”, Garden Club of America Collection, Smithsonian Archives, July 2002, Accessed online 02/12/20010; http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!246644!0 See - “American Country Homes and Their Gardens” By John Cordis Baker, 1906, Chapter – “Garden at Blair Eyrie, The Estate of DeWitt Clinton Blair, Esq., Bar Harbor, Me. - Andrews Jaques & Rantoul Architects” - p. 13. Published for W.H. Sherman, Bar Harbor, Maine.
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See “Bygone Bar Harbor: A Postcard Tour of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park” by Earl Brechlin, p. 29 - 2002 See online - “Blair Eyrie 1894-1917”, Garden Club of America Collection, Smithsonian Archives, July 2002, Accessed online 02/12/20010; http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!246644!0 See - “American Country Homes and Their Gardens” By John Cordis Baker, 1906, Chapter – “Garden at Blair Eyrie, The Estate of DeWitt Clinton Blair, Esq., Bar Harbor, Me. - Andrews Jaques & Rantoul Architects” - p. 13. Published for W.H. Sherman, Bar Harbor, Maine. [show more]
6720View of Steamer Camden Entering the Penobscot River Near Winterport, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
14364Sketches of Brooks History
  • Publication, Book
  • Places, Town
  • Norwood - Seth Wademere Norwood (1878-1966)
  • Sam Teddy Publishing (2013)
This book was originally published in 1935 and was reprinted 2013 to bring to the newer generations the rich history of the Brooks community specifically, and that of Waldo County generally. This publication includes 50 chapters starting with the Muscongus Grant (Waldo Patent) and culminating with Tombstone Inscriptions, References, and an Appendix of Birth, Marriages and Deaths from 1930 to 1934.
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This book was originally published in 1935 and was reprinted 2013 to bring to the newer generations the rich history of the Brooks community specifically, and that of Waldo County generally. This publication includes 50 chapters starting with the Muscongus Grant (Waldo Patent) and culminating with Tombstone Inscriptions, References, and an Appendix of Birth, Marriages and Deaths from 1930 to 1934.
13295Greetings from Maine: A Postcard Album
  • Publication, Book
  • Places
  • Harding, R. Brewster
  • Maine: Old Port Publishing Co., 1975
13292Lost Bar Harbor
  • Publication, Book
  • Places, Town
  • Helfrich - Helfrich, G. F
  • O'Neil - Gladys O'Neil
  • Maine: Down East Books, 2015
From the 1880s to the end of World War I, the fashionable resort of Bar Harbor attracted thousands of summer visitors with the money and leisure to pursue "the simple life on a grand scale," as A. Atwater Kent put it. They came to rusticate, dance, sail, picnic, flirt--and they did it all with style. Many relaxed at Bar Harbor's lavish hotels, while others built even more lavish and fanciful "cottages" for their own summer retreats. That dazzling era is just a memory now. The Depression and World War II undermined the summer colony, and the Great Fire of 1947 dealt the final blow. Those summer homes and hotels that survived the blaze generally succumbed to changing times, and only a handful stand today. Eighty-six vanished summer palaces are pictured in Lost Bar Harbor. Many never before published photographs from the Bar Harbor Historical Society are supplemented by lively text describing the estates and their colorful inhabitants. It is the most comprehensive collection of early Bar Harbor photographs ever assembled, providing an unparalleled glimpse of one of the world's great resort communities.
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From the 1880s to the end of World War I, the fashionable resort of Bar Harbor attracted thousands of summer visitors with the money and leisure to pursue "the simple life on a grand scale," as A. Atwater Kent put it. They came to rusticate, dance, sail, picnic, flirt--and they did it all with style. Many relaxed at Bar Harbor's lavish hotels, while others built even more lavish and fanciful "cottages" for their own summer retreats. That dazzling era is just a memory now. The Depression and World War II undermined the summer colony, and the Great Fire of 1947 dealt the final blow. Those summer homes and hotels that survived the blaze generally succumbed to changing times, and only a handful stand today. Eighty-six vanished summer palaces are pictured in Lost Bar Harbor. Many never before published photographs from the Bar Harbor Historical Society are supplemented by lively text describing the estates and their colorful inhabitants. It is the most comprehensive collection of early Bar Harbor photographs ever assembled, providing an unparalleled glimpse of one of the world's great resort communities. [show more]
13293Bygone Bar Harbor - A Postcard Tour of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park
  • Publication, Book
  • Places
  • Brechlin - Earl Brechlin
  • Maine: Down East Books, 2002
Together, the pictures and text evoke the spirit of the Golden Age of Bar Harbor, with all the accoutrements of the rich and famous robber barons who summered there. Included are images of steamships and railroads; the summer homes, or cottages, and their gardens; the fabulous grand hotels; people in period dress in leisure pursuits; and the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1947, as well as views of the town and harbor and Acadia National Park.
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Together, the pictures and text evoke the spirit of the Golden Age of Bar Harbor, with all the accoutrements of the rich and famous robber barons who summered there. Included are images of steamships and railroads; the summer homes, or cottages, and their gardens; the fabulous grand hotels; people in period dress in leisure pursuits; and the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1947, as well as views of the town and harbor and Acadia National Park.
6857View From The Moorings, Manset
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Places, Shore
  • Luther S. Phillips, Bangor, Maine
6860Jesuit Field on Fernald Point
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Places, Shore
  • Places, Sound
  • Luther S. Phillips, Bangor, Maine
9461Surf. So. West Harbor, Me.
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Shore
  • G.W. Morris, Portland, Maine
Published in Saxony.
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Published in Saxony.
9517Looking East from Hotel Islesford, Islesford, ME
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Places, Town
  • Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
15871Norumbega Mountain
  • Reference
  • Places, Mountain
15875Baker Island Dance Floor
  • Reference
  • Places, Shore
The Baker Island “Dance Floor,” is a series of huge flat slabs of granite found on the south shore, where area-islanders would hold dances on warm summer evenings. Many visitors come here for an “off the beaten path” experience and because of its unique and pleasant setting. “I believe the Thorpe family was instrumental in forming a corporation to purchase a plot of land on Baker’s Island where the dance floor ledges are located to protect the site. When the tremendous sea during a violent storm moved and tipped the large flat rocks out of place a crew of men was sent out to jack them back level.” – The Stanleys of Cranberry Isles…and Other Colorful Characters, Fisheries of Cranberry Island Chapter
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The Baker Island “Dance Floor,” is a series of huge flat slabs of granite found on the south shore, where area-islanders would hold dances on warm summer evenings. Many visitors come here for an “off the beaten path” experience and because of its unique and pleasant setting. “I believe the Thorpe family was instrumental in forming a corporation to purchase a plot of land on Baker’s Island where the dance floor ledges are located to protect the site. When the tremendous sea during a violent storm moved and tipped the large flat rocks out of place a crew of men was sent out to jack them back level.” – The Stanleys of Cranberry Isles…and Other Colorful Characters, Fisheries of Cranberry Island Chapter [show more]
14365Hunnewell - Popham Beaches
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  • Places
14375Southwest Harbor Maps for Research
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  • Places
These annotated maps are combined here for research and reference.
Description:
These annotated maps are combined here for research and reference.
14376Pará, Brazil
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  • Places
14378Samuel de Champlain's Map of the Coast of North America from Western Nova Scotia to Cape Cod - 1607
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  • Places
Descripsion Des Costs & Isles De La Nouvelle France, Faict et Observes par Le Sr. de Champlain - 1607 "This unique exploration document, originally intended for presentation to the king of France, was compiled by Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635), founder of New France. One of the great cartographic treasures of America, it provides the first thorough delineation of the New England and Canadian coast from Cape Sable to Cape Cod. It shows Port Royal; Frenchman's Bay; the St. John, St. Croix, Penobscot, and Kennebec Rivers; and many offshore islands--including Mount Desert, which Champlain himself named. The place names and coast line correspond closely to Champlain's narrative in his Voyages, published in 1613." - “Samuel de Champlain’s 1607 Map,” Library of Congress site, 07/27/2010, Accessed online 11/24/13; http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr009.html
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Descripsion Des Costs & Isles De La Nouvelle France, Faict et Observes par Le Sr. de Champlain - 1607 "This unique exploration document, originally intended for presentation to the king of France, was compiled by Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635), founder of New France. One of the great cartographic treasures of America, it provides the first thorough delineation of the New England and Canadian coast from Cape Sable to Cape Cod. It shows Port Royal; Frenchman's Bay; the St. John, St. Croix, Penobscot, and Kennebec Rivers; and many offshore islands--including Mount Desert, which Champlain himself named. The place names and coast line correspond closely to Champlain's narrative in his Voyages, published in 1613." - “Samuel de Champlain’s 1607 Map,” Library of Congress site, 07/27/2010, Accessed online 11/24/13; http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr009.html [show more]
14384Tracy Cove, Southwest Harbor
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  • Places
14417North Haven and Vinal Haven, Maine
  • Reference
  • Places, Island
14740Baddeck, Nova Scotia
  • Reference
  • Places, Town
A small village on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia
Description:
A small village on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia
2754The Barque of Barque Beach in Bernard
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  • Places, Shore
13867Otter Cove
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  • Places
13868Motley's Pond, Dedham, Massachusetts
  • Reference
  • Places, Lake
Motley Pond is a small pond on the Charles River in Dedham, Massachusetts.
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Motley Pond is a small pond on the Charles River in Dedham, Massachusetts.
13873Robinson Mountain, later Acadia Mountain
  • Reference
  • Places, Mountain
Robinson Mountain had been renamed Acadia Mountain in 1918, but was called Robinson Mountain by people who lived on Mount Desert Island for many years.
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Robinson Mountain had been renamed Acadia Mountain in 1918, but was called Robinson Mountain by people who lived on Mount Desert Island for many years.
13879Dog Mountain
St. Sauveur Mountain
  • Reference
  • Places, Mountain
Dog Mountain
St. Sauveur Mountain
13887Arnold Arboretum
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  • Places