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| Hank Grindle and Woman in Truck Photograph, 1977 Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Hank Grindle and Woman in Truck Photograph, 1977 Jesup Memorial Library Description: Hank Grindle talking to an unidentified woman driving a truck during the summer of 1977. People Mentioned: Hank Grindle Color | ||
| The Bar Harbor Express Between Bangor, Maine and Boston, Massachusetts Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Bar Harbor Express Between Bangor, Maine and Boston, Massachusetts Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Printed in Germany | ||
| Railroad Station from the Bridge in Truro, Nova Scotia Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Railroad Station from the Bridge in Truro, Nova Scotia Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Buckboard Party to The Caves Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Buckboard Party to The Caves Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Unknown Building with 1911 Ford Model T Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Unknown Building with 1911 Ford Model T Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The automobile is probably a 1911 Ford Model T with acetelyne head lamps. | |||
| Unknown Man and Coupe Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Unknown Man and Coupe Southwest Harbor Public Library | |||
| Rand, McNally & Co.'s indexed county and railroad pocket map and shippers' guide of Maine ... Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Rand, McNally & Co.'s indexed county and railroad pocket map and shippers' guide of Maine ... Northeast Harbor Library Description: Indexed county and railroad map and shippers' guide to Maine | ||
| Toot 'N' Be Darned Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Toot 'N' Be Darned Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: American Horse Breeder Publishing Co. postcard with hand written local inscription Number 5903. According to Jeff Beaumont, the car in the illustration is a 1906 Rambler. "In Mt. Desert, Tremont and Southwest Harbor nearly all the voters have signed the petitions while in the town of Eden [Bar Harbor] more than half of the voters have signed and a number of names are being added to the list each day. As is well known, practically every summer visitor to the island favors the absolute prohibition of automobiles on the island. The island of Mt. Desert is a dead end, so to speak, and an automobile could cover the whole island in a few hours, making no incentive for a prolonged stay. Yet a great deal of damage could be accomplished in a few hours in such a place as this where practically the entire summer population passes a large portion of each day in driving. The horses are not city broke and the numerous accidents that have already occurred here through the use of autos furnish a good specimen of what would happen were their use more common." - The Bar Harbor Record, December 30, 1908, quoted in the Bar Harbor Times, “Times Past” column by Deborah Dyer, January 1, 2009 See SWHPL 7484 for a photograph of Simeon "Sim" Holden Mayo breaking the rules and driving his automobile in Bar Harbor in 1908. [show more] | ||
| A Buckboarding Party at the Bluffs - Echo Lake Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  A Buckboarding Party at the Bluffs - Echo Lake Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The buckboard is stopped on the road between Southwest Harbor and Somesville, now Route 102. The view is looking west across Echo Lake to Beach Cliffs. | |
| Ralph Stanley's First Lobster Boat Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Ralph Stanley's First Lobster Boat Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Automobiles Left to Right: Unknown Unknown truck 1949-1950 Ford wood panelled station wagon 1950-1951 Pontiac sedan Unknown truck 1950 Plymouth 4-door sedan | ||
| Maine Central Railroad Advertisement Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Maine Central Railroad Advertisement Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Advertisement appearing in "A Guide to Bar Harbor" published by W.H. Sherman | ||
| Letter to Jerome H. Knowles from John S. Melcher Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Letter to Jerome H. Knowles from John S. Melcher Northeast Harbor Library Description: Concerning the recommended use of the roads for automobiles in Mount Desert and how to compromise with Southwest Harbor etc. | |||
| Viola A. Marshall Murphy - Mrs. John Tyler Murphy and Children Shopping in Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Viola A. Marshall Murphy - Mrs. John Tyler Murphy and Children Shopping in Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The Murphys were in Southwest Harbor, shopping on Clark Point Road. Perry "Ped" L. Sargent's livery stable is on the left and R.M. Norwood's carpentry shop is the large building at the back of the photograph. Marjorie is bringing her little brother a cookie. | ||
| Dr. Willis Watson's Automobile Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Dr. Willis Watson's Automobile Southwest Harbor Public Library | |||
| Dr. Willis Watson's Automobile Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Dr. Willis Watson's Automobile Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Cars and Drivers Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Cars and Drivers Northeast Harbor Library Description: CD of Northeast Harbor cars and drivers compiled by Robert Pyle. | |||
| Bill from Maine Central Railroad 1926 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Bill from Maine Central Railroad 1926 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Business Bill, Maine Central Railroad charges W. Stanley 66 cents to deliver 1 ?gallon of paint from Boston to Southwest Harbor, 16 Apr 1926 | ||
| Philomena Manchester Photograph Album - Automobiles Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Philomena Manchester Photograph Album - Automobiles Northeast Harbor Library Description: Photographs of automobiles from the 1920's. Fred Foster is mentioned in one photograph. Box 2 (MAN 86) | ||||
| Green Mountain Railway: Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Green Mountain Railway: Northeast Harbor Library Description: Essay by high school student Jessica Sattler submitted to the Island History Journal for possible publication. History of the development of the rail line up Green (Cadillac) Mountain and its dismantlement. Green Mountain Cog Railway 1883-1890 Now on Mount Washington | ||
| Letter from Bishop Doane to Jerome Knowles Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Letter from Bishop Doane to Jerome Knowles Northeast Harbor Library Description: December 15, 1906 Letter about a rumored automobile being used on the island in Bar Harbor and the legal proceedings about automobile use on Mount Desert Island. | ||
| Amos Sinclair, Nora Sinclair, Noreva Sinclair / Ice Wagon Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Amos Sinclair, Nora Sinclair, Noreva Sinclair / Ice Wagon Northeast Harbor Library Description: Photocopies of originals: 1: Amos Sinclair with his wife Noreva and daughter Nora 2. Amos Sinclair's Ice Wagon | |||
| Dan McEachern, Nathan Fennelly, Clair McBride Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Dan McEachern, Nathan Fennelly, Clair McBride Northeast Harbor Library Description: Shows McEachern & Fennelly in back seat, unnamed dog & McBride in front (McBride driver), in circa 1915 REO touring car. | |||
| 1956 Cadillac Ambulance Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  1956 Cadillac Ambulance Northeast Harbor Library | ||||
| Maine Central Railroad, map Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Buckboard Riding Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Buckboard Riding Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: "The other outdoor sport of the time was buckboard riding. There were several livery stables here… In the afternoon, summer visitors…would hire these buckboards, first having to send a small boy with the message because there were no telephones then, and would drive to all parts of the island - Bar Harbor, Jordan Pond, Bubble Pond, and even to the western side of the island. People were so keen on driving that they would sometimes take the "J.T. Morse" in the afternoon to Southwest Harbor, hire a team there, and drive all around the western side of the island. Then they would hire some kind of motorboat to bring them back from the Claremont House in the early evening." - Mount Desert - An Informal History Edited by Gunnar Hansen, section written by Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, p. 182-3 - 1989. "The buckboard deserves particular mention, as being the vehicle best suited to the roads of the island. The first buckboard was rudely fashioned out of two pairs of wheels with a couple of planks stretched between them, and seats nailed or tied on the planks. But it has developed wonderfully, and some of the buckboards of the present day are marvels of the builder's and painter's arts. Many of them are now shipped to all parts of the country for people who have first seen the vehicle here. The gentle swaying motion of the board while traveling at full speed over the hilly roads is simply delightful; and no person who has ever ridden on one wishes to use any other kind of vehicle during his stay." - A Guide to Bar Harbor published by W.H. Sherman, p. 34 - 1897. “Early buckboards were constructed out of two pairs of wheels with wooden planks attached between them. One to four seats were commonly attached to the planks. The crude buckboard evolved into the more refined examples that survive today… A buckboard ride is amazingly comfortable because of the spring action of the planks away from the axles. – Charles Morrill 11/04/07. Before the arrival of buckboards a wagon ride was a bumpy affair. In the 1820s, the Abbot Downing Company of Concord, New Hampshire developed a system whereby the bodies of stagecoaches were supported on leather straps called "thoroughbraces", which gave a swinging motion instead of the jolting up and down of a spring suspension (the stagecoach itself was sometimes called a "thoroughbrace") - Wikipedia. “At the four corners of the frame [of a Concord coach] were firmly braced S-shaped iron standards. At the upper ends these connected with the iron “shackles” that held the heavy leather straps, or thorough braces, on which the body of the coach rested.” - “Wagons, Mules and Men: How the Frontier Moved West” by Nick Eggenhofer, published by Hastings House Publishers - 1961 - p. 161. “The invention and perfection of the steel spring brought out a rash of vehicles designed for short-distance travel… In the post-Civil War period especially, spring carriages were produced in mounting proportions, with the buggy and the surrey most popular and numerous and the phaeton a close third; in the West, the buckboard rivaled the buggy in popularity.” - “Wagons, Mules and Men: How the Frontier Moved West” by Nick Eggenhofer, published by Hastings House Publishers - 1961 - p. 131 The buckboard “had a slatted bottom, which acted as a kind of spring, besides having a spring seat.” - “Wagons, Mules and Men: How the Frontier Moved West” by Nick Eggenhofer, published by Hastings House Publishers - 1961 - p. 133 In their heyday, it was not uncommon to see dozens of buckboards parked “at the ready” near resort hotels, train depots and ferry piers. The majority of tourists arrived by steamship and needed transportation once on Mount Desert Island. Buckboards pulled by up to four horses were available for hire at most livery stables. These stables quickly realized transporting groups of as many as twelve tourists around beautiful Mount Desert Island was lucrative business. These horse-drawn tours continued longer here than at most resort communities because cars were banned from Mount Desert Island until 1915.” - “Collection Corner: Bar Harbor Buckboard” by Greg Cuffey - “Down The Lane” Skyline Farm Newsletter, June-September 2006, Accessed online 11/01/07; http://www.skylinefarm.org/newsletter.asp W.H. & H.E. Davis were brothers who took over their father’s business in 1880. They made a specialty of “improved” buckboards. In addition to their workshop in Ellsworth, the Davis brothers had premises in Bar Harbor, a fashionable summer resort. [show more] |