Description: Varying sized of white paper with blue type. Larger sheet reads "Beatrix Farrand Landscape Gardener Reef Point Bar Harbor, Maine". Smaller sheets read "Reef Point Bar Harbor, Maine". Last pieces of stationary in which Farrand refers to herself as "Landscape Gardener".
The Max Farrand Memorial Fund, Bar Harbor, Maine. Copyright, 1953, by Reef Point Gardens Corporation.
Date:
1953-06
Description: Pamphlet titled "Reef Point Gardens Bulletin" published by the Max Farrand Memorial Fund, Bar Harbor Maine in June 1953. Vol. I, No. 10. Has a black and white image of a flower in a vase titled "Hybrid Tea Rose Innocence". Photograph by Sewall Brown.
Description: Silver plate gifted to the Bar Harbor gardening club by Beatrix Farrand to be the award for the best single roses category, then given to Mary Hodgkins as an prize for her single rose. Text engraved on plate reads: "A gift to the Bar Harbor Garden Club from Beatrix Farrand owner of Reef Point Gardens An award to be given annually for the best exhibit of Single Roses 1953"
Description: Wood and metal telescope (.03) and wood case (.01) presented to Captain Richard Hamor for assisting the British ship "Dominica" when it had caught fire on August 3rd, 1860. Corresponding letter(.02) is from the Royal Admiralty explaining the incident and how Richard Hamor and Aaron S. Lanfor both were awarded telescopes in thanks for their help. It is addressed to R.W. Gillen and dated 8th August, 1958.
Description: Painted black wood toy train with an attached train car. Engine car is black with six red wheels and yellow detail of the silhouette of conductor and the text: "1492 BHRR". Second car has four red wheels and carries nine blocks of wood suspended on a wooden pole. The two sections are attached with a small metal hook.
Description: Framed newspaper article regarding actress Annette Kellerman and the 1952 movie "Million Dollar Mermaid" about Kellerman's life in which actress Esther Williams portrays Kellerman. Clipping has two photos, one showing Esther Williams and Annette Kellerman looking at a sketch of a Kellerman inspired bathing suit and the second photo depicts Williams in the bathing suit.
Description: Portrait of Mary Roberts Rinehart. Color print of painting by Howard Chandler Christy. Matted and framed in a gilded frame. Framed with portrait is an (unrelated) illustrated birthday card for Ted Faulkenstrom, Rinehart's chauffeur, signed "and much love, from Mary Roberts Rinehart".
Description: A photo of Bar Harbor grade school students attending school at temporary classrooms during construction of the new school building. Identified in photo: First row: John Higgins, Danny Bryard, Artie Young, unknown, unknown, Carl Runner, Donnie Farrell, unknow, Bob Buggell, Ginny Moore Second row: unknown, Sharon Foss, Diane Dickensen, Nancy Higgins, Patty Emery, Sharon Clough, Abbie Robinson, Martha Goodwin, Barbara Weymouth, Helen Bowker 3rd row: Alice Young, Jean Iverson, Ron Jordan, Roy Snell, Joan Jordan, Jun Power, Ann Dollicer, Barbara Grant, Joe Lafrance, unknown, Betty Robbins, Norma Wilbur, Raye Cunningham 4th Row: Crystal Emery, Patty Burr, Denice Smith, Richard Webber, Barbara Leighton, Bobby Jucius, Walter Hooper, Dick Savage, Bill Fenton, Ralph Colson, Jack Russell Back Row: Billy Salisbury, unknown, unknown, Sally Higgins, Susan Joyce, Mary Ingalls, Mary Cleaves, Philip Chase [show more]