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16049Mt. Desert Island, Maine, The Bubbles
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Mountain
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1906-10-09
  • Acadia National Park
Sent to: Mrs. William Ward, Manset, Maine.
Description:
Sent to: Mrs. William Ward, Manset, Maine.
7019Jordan Pond and the Bubbles View
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1906 c.
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
  • Jordan Pond
Before Park Creation in 1916
Description:
Before Park Creation in 1916
12728Eagle Lake from Currens Cove
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Lake
  • Vessels, Boat, Canoe
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
  • Eagle Lake
Tinted Halftone Postcard. Made in Germany. Date: Before 1909 – possibly an excellent fake of an old postcard Size: 5. .4375” x 3. .4375” Subject: Eagle Lake – Ice Harvest Photographer: Unknown Publisher: Hugh C. Leighton Company Original Printer: Unknown printer in Germany Divided Back: Y Bordered: N Mailed: N Postage: One Cent – Two Cents foreignNumber: 27277 Postmarked: N "The device [wheels in a wood structure] set in a cove at the northwest corner of the lake, is part of a conveyor owned by a company that harvested ice from the lake until the 1950s. Part of the sluiceway remains on the lake bottom and can be seen when the light is right and the water low." - “Bygone Bar Harbor: A Postcard Tour of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park” by Earl Brechlin, 2002, p. 58.
Description:
Tinted Halftone Postcard. Made in Germany. Date: Before 1909 – possibly an excellent fake of an old postcard Size: 5. .4375” x 3. .4375” Subject: Eagle Lake – Ice Harvest Photographer: Unknown Publisher: Hugh C. Leighton Company Original Printer: Unknown printer in Germany Divided Back: Y Bordered: N Mailed: N Postage: One Cent – Two Cents foreignNumber: 27277 Postmarked: N "The device [wheels in a wood structure] set in a cove at the northwest corner of the lake, is part of a conveyor owned by a company that harvested ice from the lake until the 1950s. Part of the sluiceway remains on the lake bottom and can be seen when the light is right and the water low." - “Bygone Bar Harbor: A Postcard Tour of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park” by Earl Brechlin, 2002, p. 58. [show more]
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
12500Pickering Square, Bangor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Town
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1907 PM
  • Bangor ME
Printed in Germany
Description:
Printed in Germany
6722Steamer Norumbega at Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1906 c.
  • 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]
6871Steamer Norumbega, Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1918
  • Bar Harbor
6769Sidewheel Steamer Frank Jones Leaving Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1904 c.
  • Bar Harbor
Printed in Germany
Description:
Printed in Germany
6505Steamer Sappho at Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1894 c.
  • Bar Harbor
Printed in Frankfurt on Main, Germany
Description:
Printed in Frankfurt on Main, Germany
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
16064War “Ships” in Harbor, Bar Harbor, ME
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Vessels, Ship
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • Bar Harbor
16070The De Gregoire, Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • Bar Harbor
16147Seal Harbor, Maine.
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Harbor
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1905 c.
  • Bar Harbor
Mailed to: Miss Lottie King Manset, Maine, Oct. 23, 1905 Mailed to: Mr. Nahum Haynes West Trenton, Maine. Nov. 11, 1907
Description:
Mailed to: Miss Lottie King Manset, Maine, Oct. 23, 1905 Mailed to: Mr. Nahum Haynes West Trenton, Maine. Nov. 11, 1907
9526War Ships in Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Harbor
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1907 PM
  • Bar Harbor, Eden
Printed in Frankfurt on Main, Germany
Description:
Printed in Frankfurt on Main, Germany
9520View of War "Ships" in Harbor, Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Harbor
  • Places, Town
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1907 c.
  • Bar Harbor, Eden
Printed in Frankfurt on Main, Germany
Description:
Printed in Frankfurt on Main, Germany
6934St. Sauveur Hotel
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1907
  • Bar Harbor, Eden
6994Building of Arts, Eden
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Civic, Performing Arts, Theater
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1908 PM
  • Bar Harbor, Eden
6721Steamer City of Rockland at the Eastern Steamship Company Wharf, Belfast, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • Belfast ME
7022Public Library, Ellsworth, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Civic, Library
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1906 c.
  • Ellsworth ME
  • State Street
6709Hancock Maine, Main Street looking West
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Town
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1908 PM
  • Hancock ME
Made In Germany
Description:
Made In Germany
6762Sargeant Drive
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1911 c.
  • Mount Desert
Printed in Germany
Description:
Printed in Germany
16148Mt. Desert, Me. The Old Mill.
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Factory, Sawmill Building
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1909 c.
  • Mount Desert
Mailed to: Mrs. Emily W. Haynes 12 High Street, Brewer, Maine. May 11, 1909 Mailed to: Miss Freeman Southwest Harbor, Maine, Post Office.
Description:
Mailed to: Mrs. Emily W. Haynes 12 High Street, Brewer, Maine. May 11, 1909 Mailed to: Miss Freeman Southwest Harbor, Maine, Post Office.
16149Mt. Desert, Me. Echo Hill.
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • People
  • Places, Road
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1907 c.
  • Mount Desert
Mailed to: Mrs. Eldora Ward Manset, Me. Text reads: "That post card looks very nice in my large collection. Many thinks but please sign your whole name again so I won't have to guess all day. C.M.W."
Description:
Mailed to: Mrs. Eldora Ward Manset, Me. Text reads: "That post card looks very nice in my large collection. Many thinks but please sign your whole name again so I won't have to guess all day. C.M.W."
11556View of Northeast Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Harbor
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1912 PM
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor