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12446Otter Cliff - Before 1905
  • Image, Print, Relief Print, Wood Engraving
  • Places, Shore
  • Wildnauer - Max George Wildnauer (1858-1922)
  • 1905 before
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
  • Otter Cliffs
Otter Cliff - Before 1905
Item:
  • 12446   
Type:
  • Image, Print, Relief Print, Wood Engraving
Subject:
  • Places, Shore
Creator:
  • Wildnauer - Max George Wildnauer (1858-1922)
Date:
  • 1905 before
Place:
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • Otter Cliffs
Tags:
engraving
12073Street - George Edward Street (1835-1903)
  • Image, Print, Intaglio Print, Engraving
  • People
  • 1902 c.
Street - George Edward Street (1835-1903)
Item:
  • 12073   
Type:
  • Image, Print, Intaglio Print, Engraving
Subject:
  • People
Date:
  • 1902 c.
Tags:
engraving
9467View from Stanley House Dock, Manset, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Places, Shore
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Friendship Sloop
  • C.E. Cook, Bangor, Maine
  • 1905 c.
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
The vessel with sails up, coming into the dock, is a Maine Sloop Boat. Hand written note says "Many thanks for the box will write to and Edith soon. Lovingly, Mrs. Emery"
View from Stanley House Dock, Manset, Maine
Item:
  • 9467   
Accession #:
  • 1034
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
Subject:
  • Places, Shore
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Friendship Sloop
Publisher:
  • C.E. Cook, Bangor, Maine
Date:
  • 1905 c.
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Miles W. Weaver Postcard Collection
Description:
The vessel with sails up, coming into the dock, is a Maine Sloop Boat. Hand written note says "Many thanks for the box will write to and Edith soon. Lovingly, Mrs. Emery"
7018The Jordan Pond House
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • 1904
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
  • Jordan Pond
The Jordan Pond House
Item:
  • 7018   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
Subject:
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
Date:
  • 1904
Place:
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 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
Asticou Inn, Asticou, Mount Desert Island
Item:
  • 7003   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
Subject:
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
Creator:
  • Sherman
Date:
  • 1909 PM
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
State:
  • ME
6839Main Street. Southwest Harbor - Looking South to the Post Office, Ashmont Hotel and Holmes House
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Places, Town
  • Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
  • 1905 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 363 Main Street
The first building at left (363 Main Street) also housed Mayo's Ice Cream Parlor. There is a surveyor working at the edge of the road. The second building on the left, “The Ashmont” hotel at 371 Main Street was built in 1884.
Main Street. Southwest Harbor - Looking South to the Post Office, Ashmont Hotel and Holmes House
Item:
  • 6839   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
Subject:
  • Places, Town
Publisher:
  • Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
Date:
  • 1905 c.
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 363 Main Street
Source:
  • Collection of Meredith Rich Hutchins
Description:
The first building at left (363 Main Street) also housed Mayo's Ice Cream Parlor. There is a surveyor working at the edge of the road. The second building on the left, “The Ashmont” hotel at 371 Main Street was built in 1884.
6785View of the Head of Southwest Harbor from Manset
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Places, Harbor
  • Places, Shore
  • Places, Town
  • Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
  • 1904 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
"Dick: that is my house with the arrow over it. the place has changed some since that was taken. on that wharf there is a large factory now and eleven houses down there in the field. [on face of postcard] [on reverse of postcard] To Mr. Dexter Fowler, 56 Pine Street, Bath, Maine. Dear Friend Dick – I guess you thought I had forgotten you. But I should say not. I am a great fellow to put off writing. Have they had any fights at the shop since I left: I arrived home Sat. and went to work Wed. Raymond Whitmore, Southwest Harbor"
View of the Head of Southwest Harbor from Manset
Item:
  • 6785   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
Subject:
  • Places, Harbor
  • Places, Shore
  • Places, Town
Publisher:
  • Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
Date:
  • 1904 c.
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Description:
"Dick: that is my house with the arrow over it. the place has changed some since that was taken. on that wharf there is a large factory now and eleven houses down there in the field. [on face of postcard] [on reverse of postcard] To Mr. Dexter Fowler, 56 Pine Street, Bath, Maine. Dear Friend Dick – I guess you thought I had forgotten you. But I should say not. I am a great fellow to put off writing. Have they had any fights at the shop since I left: I arrived home Sat. and went to work Wed. Raymond Whitmore, Southwest Harbor" [show more]
9400The Hotel Holmes and A.I. Holmes Store
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
  • 1904 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
The photograph shows the Hotel Holmes and part of the Holmes Store on the left. Postcard Details: Date: c.1909 Media: Real Photo Title: Holmes House, Southwest Harbor, ME. Subject: Holmes Store and Hotel Holmes Photographer: Unknown Publisher: Eastern Illustrating Co., Belfast, Maine Number: 28
The Hotel Holmes and A.I. Holmes Store
Item:
  • 9400   
Accession #:
  • 1034
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
Subject:
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
Publisher:
  • Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
Date:
  • 1904 c.
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Miles W. Weaver Postcard Collection
Description:
The photograph shows the Hotel Holmes and part of the Holmes Store on the left. Postcard Details: Date: c.1909 Media: Real Photo Title: Holmes House, Southwest Harbor, ME. Subject: Holmes Store and Hotel Holmes Photographer: Unknown Publisher: Eastern Illustrating Co., Belfast, Maine Number: 28
5680Main Street Looking North - Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Places, Town
  • 1908 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Main Street
Buildings on the Left: The J.C. Ralph Building is the first structure. One of the old street lights and the Southwest Harbor Public Library wall are visible beyond the Ralph building. The building after the library property is the Freeman J. Lurvey building - now 334 Main Street. Buildings on the Right: The rustic porch of the later demolished Elisha Crane House is visible on corner of Clark Point Road. The sign for what is now Clark Point Road refers to Steamboat Wharf, which is now part of the US Coast Guard property at the end of Clark Point Road. The horse drinking fountain is in the street in front of it. The Southwest Harbor School House as Harmon Block is the large white block-like building. The bell tower on the old Freeman Grammar School, now Harbor House, can be seen behind the Harmon Block. The small building at the far right was the George Gilley plumbing shop (later The Gilley Plumbing Company) at what is now 315 Main Street.
Main Street Looking North - Southwest Harbor
Item:
  • 5680   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
Subject:
  • Places, Town
Date:
  • 1908 c.
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • Main Street
Description:
Buildings on the Left: The J.C. Ralph Building is the first structure. One of the old street lights and the Southwest Harbor Public Library wall are visible beyond the Ralph building. The building after the library property is the Freeman J. Lurvey building - now 334 Main Street. Buildings on the Right: The rustic porch of the later demolished Elisha Crane House is visible on corner of Clark Point Road. The sign for what is now Clark Point Road refers to Steamboat Wharf, which is now part of the US Coast Guard property at the end of Clark Point Road. The horse drinking fountain is in the street in front of it. The Southwest Harbor School House as Harmon Block is the large white block-like building. The bell tower on the old Freeman Grammar School, now Harbor House, can be seen behind the Harmon Block. The small building at the far right was the George Gilley plumbing shop (later The Gilley Plumbing Company) at what is now 315 Main Street. [show more]
6703Pemaquid Light
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • Boston Post Card Co.
  • 1907
  • Pemaquid ME
Pemaquid Light
Item:
  • 6703   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
Subject:
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
Publisher:
  • Boston Post Card Co.
Date:
  • 1907
Place:
  • Pemaquid ME
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Collection of the Clark Family
Tags:
tinted
6895Seal Cove
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Places, Harbor
  • 1907 PM
Handwritten inscription says: "This is what we should have seen if we could have seen when we took our drive. I hope you didn't get too tired with your trip up and that it was a pleasant one. Shall see you soon. It is beautiful here now. W.D. Sept. 17, 1907"
Seal Cove
Item:
  • 6895   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
Subject:
  • Places, Harbor
Date:
  • 1907 PM
State:
  • ME
Description:
Handwritten inscription says: "This is what we should have seen if we could have seen when we took our drive. I hope you didn't get too tired with your trip up and that it was a pleasant one. Shall see you soon. It is beautiful here now. W.D. Sept. 17, 1907"
7021Hard Wood Factory, Ellsworth, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Structures, Factory, Sawmill Building
  • 1909 PM
Handwritten inscription says: "Please forgive me for not writing but will in a few days. Etta"
Hard Wood Factory, Ellsworth, Maine
Item:
  • 7021   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
Subject:
  • Structures, Factory, Sawmill Building
Date:
  • 1909 PM
State:
  • ME
Description:
Handwritten inscription says: "Please forgive me for not writing but will in a few days. Etta"
16567The Indian Village, Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • People
  • Places, Camp
  • Arthur Livingston, New York
  • 1903-08-12
  • Bar Harbor
Front reads: "U.S.S. Baltimore at Bar Harbor, ME. Mom Son Girl." Sent to: Mr. William H. Gillian Elm St., Newport, Rhode Island
The Indian Village, Bar Harbor
Item:
  • 16567   
Accession #:
  • 2069
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
Subject:
  • People
  • Places, Camp
Publisher:
  • Arthur Livingston, New York
Date:
  • 1903-08-12
Place:
  • Bar Harbor
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Donation of Elliot Santavicca
Description:
Front reads: "U.S.S. Baltimore at Bar Harbor, ME. Mom Son Girl." Sent to: Mr. William H. Gillian Elm St., Newport, Rhode Island
16104Western Mountain, Seal Cove, Maine.
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Places, Mountain
  • 1906-07-25
  • Tremont, Seal Cove
Mailed to: Miss Lottie King Manset, Maine
Western Mountain, Seal Cove, Maine.
Item:
  • 16104   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
Subject:
  • Places, Mountain
Date:
  • 1906-07-25
Place:
  • Tremont, Seal Cove
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • The Ward Family Collection
Description:
Mailed to: Miss Lottie King Manset, Maine
16107The Sound.
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Places, Sound
  • 1906-06-24
  • Mount Desert, Sound
Mailed to: Miss Fannie King Manset, Maine Text read: “Dear Fannie: - Will send you another card. Kate is about read to leave for Isle au Haut. I send my love to you. Ms. Lillian Robbins”
The Sound.
Item:
  • 16107   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
Subject:
  • Places, Sound
Date:
  • 1906-06-24
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Sound
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • The Ward Family Collection
Description:
Mailed to: Miss Fannie King Manset, Maine Text read: “Dear Fannie: - Will send you another card. Kate is about read to leave for Isle au Haut. I send my love to you. Ms. Lillian Robbins”
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
7001Sea Cliff Drive, Seal Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1906 c.
  • Mount Desert, Seal Harbor
Post card of Sea Cliff Drive, now Cooksey Drive.
Sea Cliff Drive, Seal Harbor, Maine
Item:
  • 7001   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Places
Publisher:
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
Date:
  • 1906 c.
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Seal Harbor
State:
  • ME
Description:
Post card of Sea Cliff Drive, now Cooksey Drive.
7004Cottage Street, Northeast Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Town
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1906 PM
Cottage Street, Northeast Harbor, Maine
Item:
  • 7004   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Places, Town
Publisher:
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
Date:
  • 1906 PM
State:
  • ME
7005Neighborhood House, Northeast Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Civic, Community Center
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1908 PM
Neighborhood House, Northeast Harbor, Maine
Item:
  • 7005   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Structures, Civic, Community Center
Publisher:
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
Date:
  • 1908 PM
State:
  • ME