Description: Beatrix Farrand's black leather portfolio with matching leather insert. Portfolio has tabs which are labeled "Unanswered", "Answered", "Unpaid", and "Paid". Outside of both the portfolio and insert are initialed "BJ" for Beatrix Jones, her maiden name. Small paper envelope labeled "key" contains the small key which goes to the portfolio. Portfolio "A" (.01), Portfolio "B" (.02), Key (.03) [show more]
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".
Description: Vertical postcard, colorized image of George B. Dorr standing on a rocky outcrop at Hunter's Beach. Caption on card reads "Cleft at Hunter's Beach, Bar Harbor, ME".
Description: Three framed black and white postcards of various scenes from the movie "The Queen of the Sea". Postcard in upper righthand corner depicts actress, probably Annette Kellerman, dressed as a mermaid laying on rocky shore. Below that is a postcard depicting a child actress dressed in white toga in a rock crevasse. Third postcard depicts an actor dressed in furs, a round helmet, and sandals standing next to a boat. Text of this postcard reads: "A Boreas Guard in Annette Kellerman's picture Queen of the Sea. August 19, 1917". "The Queen of the Sea" was released in 1918 and was filmed on Mount Desert Island. It starred Annette Kellerman as Merilla the Queen of the Sea. [show more]
Description: Silver inkwell with an engraving of the SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie and the name "Cecilie" engraved under. Inkwell belonged to SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie, a German ocean liner which came to Bar Harbor August 5, 1914.
Description: Peau De Soie satin dress with pleated knit neckline and train scrapes and veil. Worn by Dorothy Frances Brewer Erikson in her wedding to Gordon I. Erickson in 1943.
Object, Water Transporation, Boat Paddle, Canoe Paddle
Subject:
none
Date:
1900-08
Description: Canoe paddle used by Llewellyn Barry when competing and winning the Mt. Desert Canoe Club Race, August of 1900. "Barry" is written on the paddle handle.
Description: Green umbrella with ivory handle. Prized possession of George B. Dorr. Originally owned by theologian and famed scholar Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758).
Description: Large birch bark basket with various boarder designs going along top and bottom edge. Created by Sabattis Tomah, son of Passamaquoddy artist Tomah Joseph.