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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date Place Address Description
12224A. Bird Cough, Fine Groceries and Provisions
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Store
  • 1902-08-12
  • Bar Harbor
  • 26 Cottage Street
6058A.C. Smith's Store and House
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Store
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Neal - George Arthur Neal (1872-1939)
  • 1900 c.
  • Swans Island
6019A.C. Smith's Store and House
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Store
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Neal - George Arthur Neal (1872-1939)
  • 1900 c.
  • Swans Island
Owned by Smith - Andrew C. Smith (1857-), the store was torn down in 1949. The house is now [2017] owned by summer residents.
Description:
Owned by Smith - Andrew C. Smith (1857-), the store was torn down in 1949. The house is now [2017] owned by summer residents.
10134Advertisement for Jordan Pond House
  • Document, Advertising, Advertisement
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • 1909
  • Acadia National Park
  • Jordan Pond
7003Asticou Inn, Asticou, Mount Desert Island
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Sherman
  • 1909 PM
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
7416Clifton House Hotel, Northeast Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • 1907
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
6188Dr. Willis Watson's Store, Bernard, Maine
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Store
  • Neal - George Arthur Neal (1872-1939)
  • 1900 c.
  • Tremont, Bernard
3024Famous Hotel's End - Rodick House
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • 1906
  • Bar Harbor
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."
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]
5567Jesse Newell Mills on the Fence at The Lindens
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • 1904 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 118 Clark Point Road
6727Malvern Hotel, Cottages, Kebo Street, Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • The American News Company, New York
  • 1908 PM
  • Bar Harbor
6042North from The Castle
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Neal - George Arthur Neal (1872-1939)
  • 1900 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
View from the Claremont hotel shows High Road Congregational Church and Dirigo Hotel.
Description:
View from the Claremont hotel shows High Road Congregational Church and Dirigo Hotel.
16091Ocean House, Southwest Harbor, Maine.
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • 1905-08-25
  • Southwest Harbor
Mailed to: Mr. William H. Rea Pembroke, Me. From: Lottie R. King
Description:
Mailed to: Mr. William H. Rea Pembroke, Me. From: Lottie R. King
6025Ocean View Hotel, Swans Island
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Neal - George Arthur Neal (1872-1939)
  • 1900 c.
  • Swans Island
6026Ocean View Hotel, Swans Island
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Neal - George Arthur Neal (1872-1939)
  • 1900 c.
  • Swans Island
6048Ocean View Hotel, Swans Island
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Neal - George Arthur Neal (1872-1939)
  • 1900 c.
  • Swans Island
8099Perry Warrington Richardson's Store, Bass Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Store
  • 1902 c.
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
  • 4 Granville Road
10721S. W. Newman Groceries and Post Office, Manset, Maine
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Post Office
  • Structures, Commercial, Store
  • 1900 c.
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
16114Sea Side Inn, Seal Harbor, Mount Desert Island, Maine,
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Inn
  • W.H. Sherman, Bar Harbor, Maine
  • 1907-11-14
  • Mount Desert, Seal Harbor
Mailed to: Mrs. J.A. Freeman S.W. Harbor, Me. Signed: Abbie
Description:
Mailed to: Mrs. J.A. Freeman S.W. Harbor, Me. Signed: Abbie
6050Simeon H. Sim Mayo and his Bicycle Shop, Southwest Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Store
  • Neal - George Arthur Neal (1872-1939)
  • 1900 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 47 Clark Point Road
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
7776Simeon Holden Mayo's Bicycle Shop in Southwest Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Store
  • Neal - George Arthur Neal (1872-1939)
  • 1900 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 47 Clark Point Road
6934St. Sauveur Hotel
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1907
  • Bar Harbor, Eden
10910S.W. Newman Groceries and Manset Post Office
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Post Office
  • Structures, Commercial, Store
  • 1905 c.
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
12070The Ashmont Hotel / Freeman Cottage / Freeman House / Freeman Annex
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Neal - George Arthur Neal (1872-1939)
  • 1900 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 371 Main Street