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167Casino Trick Skating Advertisement Card
  • Document, Advertising, Advertising Card
  • Structures, Commercial, Commercial Structures
  • Herald Press, Bar Harbor
  • 1883-07
Description:
Beige card with black text across entire face. Advertisement for Messrs. Battey and Hacker Tick and Fancy Skating at the Bar Harbor Casino on Wednesday, July 25th, 1883.
166Roller Skating Advertisement Card
  • Document, Advertising, Advertising Card
  • Structures, Commercial, Commercial Structures
Description:
Beige card with red illustration and black text. Advertisement for the roller skating rink in Bar Harbor. Illustration depicts two people in floppy hats holding onto rope. Top text in red reads: "The Sea! The Sea! The Beautiful, See?" Bottom black text reads: "Bar Harbor Roller Skating Rink, 'Not the Tent' Prices Reduced."
1012Cigarette Silk
  • Document, Advertising, Advertising Card, Tobacco Card
  • Places, Town
  • Tokio Cigarette Company
  • 1900 c
Description:
Small patch of fabric with the illustration of a woman in a green dress and hat with a parasol leaning against a wood railing. On top reads: "Factory No. 646. First Dist. N.Y." and below reads" 12 Bar Harbor" Part of a collection of "Cigarette Silks" put out by the Tokio Cigarette Company called "Bathing Beauties" depicting various women at different beaches around the U.S.
218Bar Harbor Horse Show Poster, 1910
  • Document, Advertising, Poster
  • People
  • Structures, Civic, Cultural & Recreational Structures
  • 1910-08
Description:
Poster for the Bar Harbor Horse Show. Poster is a Charles W. Holmes Lithograph depicting a woman with a light blue bonnet holding a parasol and holding a horse's face to her own. The Horse is poking its head out of a circle in the blank background of the print. Text of the poster reads: "Bar Harbor Horse Show Aug. 23, 24, 25 1910" In the lower left hand corner is the phrase "When Thoroughbreds Meet" and above that, next to the parasol tip, is Holmes' signature "Chas. W. Holmes". [show more]
29George B. Dorr Caricature Cartoon by Ralph Yardley
  • Document, Cartoon
  • People
  • Ralph Yardley
  • 1924-03-08
Description:
Pencil drawing by Ralph Yardley from Stockholm Record. Represents George B Dorr with caption: "George B Dorr may be a bachelor but he's married to Lafayette Park".
28George B. Dorr's Harvard Diploma
  • Document, Certificate
  • People
  • 1874
Description:
Framed diploma; Bachelor of Arts in Latin degree to George Bucknam Dorr.
180Binder of Bar Harbor Swimming Club Stock Certificates
  • Document, Financial, Stock Certificate
  • Structures, Civic, Cultural & Recreational Structures
  • 1901
Description:
Large binder containing certificates for membership to the Bar Harbor Swimming Club.
1067Bangor and Bar Harbor Steamboat Stock Certificate
  • Document, Financial, Stock Certificate
  • Businesses, Transportation Business
  • 1895-12-19
Description:
Certificate for six shares of the Bangor & Bar Harbor Steamboat Co. made out to a Miss Roberts on December 19, 1895.
175Dance Card for Islesford Casino
  • Document, List, Dance Card
  • none
  • Isleford Casino
  • 1894
Description:
Dance card for the Isleford Casino with ten dances and nine of them are reserved as well as three "extras" at the bottom.
19Old Farm Guestbook
  • Document, List, Guestbook
  • People
  • 1880 c
Description:
Black leather guestbook with thin gilded trim. Used at George B Dorr's estate, Oldfarm. Has notes from George B Dorr's guests.
1243Decorative China Plate
  • Document, Memorabilia, Commemorative, Commemorative Plate
  • Places, Town
  • 1920 - 1940 c
Description:
China plate with umber illustrations of Bar Harbor from Malvern Hill.
1244Decorative China Plate
  • Document, Memorabilia, Commemorative, Commemorative Plate
  • Places, Town
  • 1920 - 1940 c
Description:
China plate with blue illustration of Bar Harbor from Malvern Hill.
346Kronprinzessin Cecilie Railing Piece
  • Document, Memorabilia, Souvenir
  • Vessels, Boat
  • 1940 c.
Description:
Block of railing from the German liner ship the Kronprinzessin Cecilie. Gold plaque attached says "Teakwood Rail from the U.S.S. Mount Vernon 1917 - 1940". The Kronprinzessin Cecilie was given the name U.S.S. Mount Vernon when it was seized by the U.S. government at the start of WWI.
215"Maine Summer Visitors Day" Pamphlet
  • Document, Pamphlet
  • none
  • 1935-08-16
Description:
Green ink on white card stock. Program for "Maine Summer Visitors Day". Cover text reads: "Maine Summer Visitors Day Bar Harbor Maine Friday Aug. 16, 1935". Names featured in Program: Bishop Willian A. Lawrence Governor Louis J. Brann Walter Damrosch Ed Wynn Camella Ponselle George W. Wickersham Dorothy Robbins Margaret Sittig William A. Brady Doris Doe Edith Barrett Clarence Chamberlain Ruth Nichols Mitzie Green Mary Rogers Robert Fechner Mary Roberts Rinehart Henry Morganthau Keenan Wynn Owen Davis Arthur Byron Grace George Kenneth Roberts Arthur Train Bill Cunningham Charles Harrison Madame Rosa Zulalian Major Gen. Philip B. Fleming Dexter P. Cooper Capt. Donald J. Leehay Capt. John W. Lord Kenneth Wright Robert Trout [show more]
111"Reef Point Gardens Bulletin" Pamphlet
  • Document, Pamphlet
  • People
  • Places, Garden
  • The Max Farrand Memorial Fund, Bar Harbor, Maine. Copyright, 1953, by Reef Point Gardens Corporation.
  • 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.
176Play Program for "The Enchantress of Streams"
  • Document, Program, Theater Program
  • none
  • 1912
Description:
Play program with illustration of two women playing instruments. Play is written by Mrs. Christian Hemmick, better known as Alice Pike Barney. Text reads: "The Enchantress of Streams. A Wordless Greed Idyl of Descriptive Dances and Pantomime. Composed, Taught and Managed by Mrs. Christian Hemmick" Written in black pen on bottom of cover is the date 1912
179Bar Harbor Club Rule Book, 1930
  • Document, Rules
  • none
  • Bar Harbor Club
  • 1930
Description:
Hardcover green book with thirty pages detailing the specific regulations regarding membership and guests of the Bar Harbor Club.
375Painting of Steamship Kronprinzessin Cecilie
  • Image, Art, Painting
  • Vessels, Boat
  • 1914
Description:
Reprint of a painting portraying fisherman & boat, a woman & boy with nets & row boat in foreground and in the background the SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie. Has name of the ship on bottom of frame.
440"The Bar Harbor Fire" Oil Painting by Howe Duane Higgins
  • Image, Art, Painting
  • Places, Island
  • Higgins - Howe Duane Higgins (1894 - 1974)
  • 1950 c
Description:
Panoramic view of the 1947 Bar Harbor fire painted by Howe Duane Higgins and framed in a ornate gilded frame.
438Watercolor Painting "Bass Cottage"
  • Image, Art, Painting
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
Description:
Watercolor painting of the summer cottage "Bass Cottage" with a dedication on the lower left which reads: "Love Roy and Helene" and has the artist signature "Hallowell" on the lower right.
32Mary Ward Dorr Portrait
  • Image, Art, Picture, Portrait
  • People
  • 1850 c
Description:
Charcoal and pencil portrait of Mary Ward Dorr (George B. Dorr's mother).
47Mary Roberts Rinehart Portrait and Card
  • Image, Art, Picture, Portrait
  • People
  • Painting by Howard Chandler Christy
  • 1880 - 1950 c
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".
247Rip Rap Dog Portrait
  • Image, Art, Picture, Portrait
  • Nature, Animals
  • 1900 - 1920 c
Description:
Framed oil painting of Rip Rap, the Springer Spaniel stud dog who was a descendant of champion dogs.
60Stereoscopic view of the Jayne Cottage
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • Emery - Ernest E. Emery (1849-1933)
  • 1890 c.
Description:
Stereoscopic view of the Jayne Cottage, off Cleftstone Road, Bar Harbor. The Jayne Cottage was designed in the Shingle Style by Boston architect William Ralph Emerson and built in 1887-1888. The original owner was Dr. Horace Jayne. The house burned in 1947. This stereoscopic view is stamped E. Emery, Bar Harbor, Maine and is labeled Mrs. Jayne.
2Downtown Bar Harbor Proposed Beautification - West End Drug
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Island
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Beatrix Farrand
Description:
Celebrated landscape architect, Beatrix Farrand commissioned a watercolor artist (unknown) to produce scenes of downtown Bar Harbor with her recommendations to the Village Improvement Association for beautifying the downtown with trellises, window boxes, plants, and flowers. Farrand's recommendations were never carried out. West End Drug building & delivery wagon on Main Street