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Item Title Type Subject Description Creator Date Property Name Street Pages Medium Condition
5196Sea Street, Northeast Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Town
  • Transportation, Automobile
Winter scene looking toward harbor on Sea St. with Plymouth beach wagon stuck in snow on unplowed road.
  • Alan Knox
  • late 1930's
Sea Street, Northeast Harbor
Item:
  • 5196   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Places, Town
  • Transportation, Automobile
Creator:
  • Alan Knox
Date:
  • late 1930's
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Collection:
  • Photograph
Object ID:
  • Photo 1617
Location:
  • Photograph Filing Cabinet
Description:
Winter scene looking toward harbor on Sea St. with Plymouth beach wagon stuck in snow on unplowed road.
5756Buckboard on Carriage Road
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Carriage Road
  • Transportation, Carriage
Horse-drawn buckboard on a Carriage Road. Roy Salisbury Collection
  • July 1942
  • 1 photograph
Buckboard on Carriage Road
Item:
  • 5756   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Places, Carriage Road
  • Transportation, Carriage
Date:
  • July 1942
Place:
  • Acadia National Park
Collection:
  • Photograph
Object ID:
  • Photo 2142 RS
Location:
  • Photograph Filing Cabinet
Pages:
  • 1 photograph
Description:
Horse-drawn buckboard on a Carriage Road. Roy Salisbury Collection
4218Road watering cart maintained by the Village Improvement Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Transportation, Carriage
Horse-drawn cart. Location: Head of Sea Street in front of old Manchester home. Building at left is the Gaynor Hotel, which stood on the site of the present Holmes store and burned, 1910. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
  • Julia G. Manchester
  • July 1898
  • photograph, glass plate negative
Road watering cart maintained by the Village Improvement Society
Item:
  • 4218   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Transportation, Carriage
Creator:
  • Julia G. Manchester
Date:
  • July 1898
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Collection:
  • Photograph
Object ID:
  • Photo 0220 JM, GPN 0140 JM
Location:
  • Photograph Filing Cabinet
Medium:
  • photograph, glass plate negative
Description:
Horse-drawn cart. Location: Head of Sea Street in front of old Manchester home. Building at left is the Gaynor Hotel, which stood on the site of the present Holmes store and burned, 1910. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
5889Main Street and Post Office, Seal Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Town
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Post Office
  • Transportation, Railroad
Main Street and Post Office, Seal Harbor, Maine.
  • early 1900s
Main Street and Post Office, Seal Harbor, Maine
Item:
  • 5889   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Places, Town
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Post Office
  • Transportation, Railroad
Date:
  • early 1900s
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Seal Harbor
Collection:
  • Postcard
Object ID:
  • Post 0082
Location:
  • Postcard Box 1 top of photograph filing cabinet
Description:
Main Street and Post Office, Seal Harbor, Maine.
5792Amos Sinclair, Nora Sinclair, Noreva Sinclair / Ice Wagon
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Transportation, Wagon
Photocopies of originals: 1: Amos Sinclair with his wife Noreva and daughter Nora 2. Amos Sinclair's Ice Wagon
  • early 1900
  • 2
  • photocopies
  • good
Amos Sinclair, Nora Sinclair, Noreva Sinclair / Ice Wagon
Item:
  • 5792   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • People
  • Transportation, Wagon
Date:
  • early 1900
Collection:
  • Photograph
Object ID:
  • Photo 2178
Location:
  • Photograph Filing Cabinet
Pages:
  • 2
Medium:
  • photocopies
Condition:
  • good
Description:
Photocopies of originals: 1: Amos Sinclair with his wife Noreva and daughter Nora 2. Amos Sinclair's Ice Wagon
7177Stanley's Fish Market, Northeast Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Market Business
  • People
  • Transportation, Automobile
David Stanley ran Stanley's Fish Market in Northeast Harbor. Photos 2188 a-f: Stanley's Fish Market Photo 2188 g: woody (Plymouth or Buick) from about 1950's.
  • Brenda Perry
  • ca. 1996
  • 5 photographs
  • good
Stanley's Fish Market, Northeast Harbor
Item:
  • 7177   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Market Business
  • People
  • Transportation, Automobile
Creator:
  • Brenda Perry
Date:
  • ca. 1996
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Collection:
  • Photograph
Object ID:
  • Photo 2188
Location:
  • Photograph Filing Cabinet
Pages:
  • 5 photographs
Condition:
  • good
Description:
David Stanley ran Stanley's Fish Market in Northeast Harbor. Photos 2188 a-f: Stanley's Fish Market Photo 2188 g: woody (Plymouth or Buick) from about 1950's.
5045Main Street, Northeast Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Town
  • Transportation, Automobile
Enlargement of a smaller Photograph looking south on Main Street, Northeast Harbor with the Pastime Theater on the right, and kiosk in center of road. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions
  • ca. 1939
  • 1 photograph
Main Street, Northeast Harbor
Item:
  • 5045   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Places, Town
  • Transportation, Automobile
Date:
  • ca. 1939
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Collection:
  • Photograph
Object ID:
  • Photo 1437
Location:
  • Photograph Filing Cabinet
Pages:
  • 1 photograph
Description:
Enlargement of a smaller Photograph looking south on Main Street, Northeast Harbor with the Pastime Theater on the right, and kiosk in center of road. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions
5166Clifton Dock, Northeast Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
  • Transportation, Carriage
Spurling & Ladd boat slip, later known as Clifton Dock, show people and horse-drawn carriage on the ramps. See also item 4865 (photo 1219)
  • ca. 1914
Clifton Dock, Northeast Harbor
Item:
  • 5166   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
  • Transportation, Carriage
Date:
  • ca. 1914
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Collection:
  • Photograph
Object ID:
  • Photo 1588
Location:
  • Photograph Filing Cabinet
Description:
Spurling & Ladd boat slip, later known as Clifton Dock, show people and horse-drawn carriage on the ramps. See also item 4865 (photo 1219)
4865Clifton Dock, Northeast Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Panorama
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
  • Transportation, Carriage
Bear Island in center. Sutton Island to back left. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
  • ca. 1900
  • 1 photograph (panoramic)
Clifton Dock, Northeast Harbor
Item:
  • 4865   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Panorama
Subject:
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
  • Transportation, Carriage
Date:
  • ca. 1900
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Collection:
  • Photograph
Object ID:
  • Photo 1219
Location:
  • Photograph Filing Cabinet
Pages:
  • 1 photograph (panoramic)
Description:
Bear Island in center. Sutton Island to back left. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
5153Asticou Inn
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Inn
  • Transportation, Carriage
Showing north side and front of Asticou Inn with horse-drawn carriage at entrance.
  • ca. 1900
Asticou Inn
Item:
  • 5153   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Inn
  • Transportation, Carriage
Date:
  • ca. 1900
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Collection:
  • Photograph
Object ID:
  • Photo 1574
Location:
  • Photograph Filing Cabinet
Description:
Showing north side and front of Asticou Inn with horse-drawn carriage at entrance.
2116Automobiles - The Mount Desert Town Meeting
  • Publication, Literary, Poem
  • Other, Poetry
  • Transportation, Automobile
Copy of a poem by Herbert Weir Smyth, Harvard professor, about the vote of residents of Mount Desert banning automobiles in the town. This was published August 23, 1913 in Bar Harbor Life. See also item 1564
  • Herbert Weir Smyth
  • 8/23/1913
  • 3
  • photocopy
Automobiles - The Mount Desert Town Meeting
Item:
  • 2116   
Type:
  • Publication, Literary, Poem
Subject:
  • Other, Poetry
  • Transportation, Automobile
Creator:
  • Herbert Weir Smyth
Date:
  • 8/23/1913
Place:
  • Mount Desert
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0630
Location:
  • General Collection Box 20
Pages:
  • 3
Medium:
  • photocopy
Description:
Copy of a poem by Herbert Weir Smyth, Harvard professor, about the vote of residents of Mount Desert banning automobiles in the town. This was published August 23, 1913 in Bar Harbor Life. See also item 1564
2118Letter to Jerome H. Knowles from John S. Melcher
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Transportation, Automobile
Concerning the recommended use of the roads for automobiles in Mount Desert and how to compromise with Southwest Harbor etc.
  • 2/10/1911
  • 2
  • typescript
Letter to Jerome H. Knowles from John S. Melcher
Item:
  • 2118   
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
Subject:
  • Transportation, Automobile
Date:
  • 2/10/1911
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0632
Location:
  • General Collection Box 20
Pages:
  • 2
Medium:
  • typescript
Description:
Concerning the recommended use of the roads for automobiles in Mount Desert and how to compromise with Southwest Harbor etc.
5558Cars and Drivers
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
  • Transportation, Automobile
CD of Northeast Harbor cars and drivers compiled by Robert Pyle.
  • 2008
Cars and Drivers
Item:
  • 5558   
Type:
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
Subject:
  • People
  • Transportation, Automobile
Date:
  • 2008
Collection:
  • Oral History
Object ID:
  • Oral History 0063
Location:
  • CD Box 1
Description:
CD of Northeast Harbor cars and drivers compiled by Robert Pyle.
1591Green Mountain Railway:
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Transportation, Railroad
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
  • Jessica Sattler
  • 2001
  • 11
Green Mountain Railway:
Item:
  • 1591   
Type:
  • Document, Other Documents
Subject:
  • Transportation, Railroad
Creator:
  • Jessica Sattler
Date:
  • 2001
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0103
Location:
  • General Collection Box 4
Pages:
  • 11
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
7101Maine Central Railroad 1940-1978
  • Publication, Book
  • Transportation, Railroad
By E. Spencer Miller, member of the Newcomen Society, chairman of the board of the Maine Central Railroad Company, Portland, and president from 1952-1977. With a 1979 map of Maine Central Railroad Company.
  • E. Spencer Miller
  • 1979
  • 52
  • 1 book
  • good
Maine Central Railroad 1940-1978
Item:
  • 7101   
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Transportation, Railroad
Creator:
  • E. Spencer Miller
Date:
  • 1979
Place:
  • Maine
Collection:
  • Special Collection Books
Object ID:
  • SCB 625.1 MIL
Location:
  • Shelf 6A3
Pages:
  • 52
Medium:
  • 1 book
Condition:
  • good
Description:
By E. Spencer Miller, member of the Newcomen Society, chairman of the board of the Maine Central Railroad Company, Portland, and president from 1952-1977. With a 1979 map of Maine Central Railroad Company.
2023The Bar Harbor Auto War
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Places, Island
  • Transportation, Automobile
Article about the conflict when the automobile was introduced to Mount Desert Island. Published in Down East Magazine, August 1975.
  • Richard A. Savage
  • 1975
  • pages 66-87
  • magazine
The Bar Harbor Auto War
Item:
  • 2023   
Type:
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
Subject:
  • Places, Island
  • Transportation, Automobile
Creator:
  • Richard A. Savage
Date:
  • 1975
Place:
  • Mount Desert Island
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0535
Location:
  • General Collection Box 17
Pages:
  • pages 66-87
Medium:
  • magazine
Description:
Article about the conflict when the automobile was introduced to Mount Desert Island. Published in Down East Magazine, August 1975.
5509Main Street, Northeast Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
  • Places, Town
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Public Safety, Fire Station
  • Transportation, Automobile
Eleven b/w scanned photographs of Main Street, Northeast Harbor, in 1972. Photo 1887 a: Fire House Photo 1887 b: Carlo's car Photo 1887 c: Bank Photo 1887 d: P. P. Hill's Photo 1887 e: Kimball Shop Photo 1887 f: Kimball Shop (from lower end) Photo 1887 g: McGrath's Photo 1887 h: Dot (Renault) Photo 1887 i: Dad getting into car in front of drug store Photo 1887 j: Drug store Photo 1887 k: Where Bank will be. Tracy's paint shop in white building
  • Velma Ashley
  • 1972
Main Street, Northeast Harbor
Item:
  • 5509   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
  • Places, Town
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Public Safety, Fire Station
  • Transportation, Automobile
Creator:
  • Velma Ashley
Date:
  • 1972
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Collection:
  • Photograph
Object ID:
  • Photo 1887
Location:
  • Photograph Filing Cabinet
Description:
Eleven b/w scanned photographs of Main Street, Northeast Harbor, in 1972. Photo 1887 a: Fire House Photo 1887 b: Carlo's car Photo 1887 c: Bank Photo 1887 d: P. P. Hill's Photo 1887 e: Kimball Shop Photo 1887 f: Kimball Shop (from lower end) Photo 1887 g: McGrath's Photo 1887 h: Dot (Renault) Photo 1887 i: Dad getting into car in front of drug store Photo 1887 j: Drug store Photo 1887 k: Where Bank will be. Tracy's paint shop in white building [show more]
5461Des Isles Building Fire
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events, Fire
  • Places, Town
  • Transportation, Truck, Fire Truck
Small B/W photograph of the Des Isles Building on Main Street, Northeast Harbor at the start of the fire which destroyed it in 1965. Photograph shows truck parked in front of building and adults and children (one with bike.)
  • Kimball
  • 1965
Des Isles Building Fire
Item:
  • 5461   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Events, Fire
  • Places, Town
  • Transportation, Truck, Fire Truck
Creator:
  • Kimball
Date:
  • 1965
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Collection:
  • Photograph
Object ID:
  • Photo 1853
Location:
  • Photograph Filing Cabinet
Description:
Small B/W photograph of the Des Isles Building on Main Street, Northeast Harbor at the start of the fire which destroyed it in 1965. Photograph shows truck parked in front of building and adults and children (one with bike.)
2162Green Mountain Railway
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Transportation, Railroad
Article about the Green Mountain Railway (pg. 7) with four B/W pictures. Published in the "Bar Harbor Times" - October 3, 1963.
  • 1963
  • newspaper
Green Mountain Railway
Item:
  • 2162   
Type:
  • Publication, Newspaper
Subject:
  • Transportation, Railroad
Date:
  • 1963
Place:
  • Acadia National Park, Cadillac Mountain
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0675
Location:
  • General Collection OS Box 2
Medium:
  • newspaper
Description:
Article about the Green Mountain Railway (pg. 7) with four B/W pictures. Published in the "Bar Harbor Times" - October 3, 1963.
1564Editor's Notes: Automobiles The Mount Desert Town Meeting
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Other, Poetry
  • Transportation, Automobile
August 6, 1959 A poem written by professor H. W. Smyth, summer resident of Seal Harbor, Maine in response to a town meeting regarding automobiles on Mount Desert Island.
  • 1959
  • 1 article, 2 photograph copies
  • newspaper, photograph copy
Editor's Notes: Automobiles The Mount Desert Town Meeting
Item:
  • 1564   
Type:
  • Publication, Clipping
Subject:
  • Other, Poetry
  • Transportation, Automobile
Date:
  • 1959
Place:
  • Mount Desert
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0075
Location:
  • General Collection Box 4
Pages:
  • 1 article, 2 photograph copies
Medium:
  • newspaper, photograph copy
Description:
August 6, 1959 A poem written by professor H. W. Smyth, summer resident of Seal Harbor, Maine in response to a town meeting regarding automobiles on Mount Desert Island.
4412Horse-drawn "Pung"
  • Image, Photograph
  • Transportation, Carriage
Winter farming. Horse-drawn "Pung".
  • Sterling Haskell
  • 1950's
Horse-drawn "Pung"
Item:
  • 4412   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Transportation, Carriage
Creator:
  • Sterling Haskell
Date:
  • 1950's
Collection:
  • Photograph
Object ID:
  • Photo 0463 SH
Location:
  • Photograph Filing Cabinet
Description:
Winter farming. Horse-drawn "Pung".
5123Model boats hand-carved by Philip McLean
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Model, Model Ship
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Vessels, Boat
B/W photograph of Philip McLean's model boats displayed in back of pick-up truck in driveway
  • Marion Salisbury
  • 1950-1960
Model boats hand-carved by Philip McLean
Item:
  • 5123   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Object, Model, Model Ship
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Vessels, Boat
Creator:
  • Marion Salisbury
Date:
  • 1950-1960
Collection:
  • Photograph
Object ID:
  • Photo 1537
Location:
  • Photograph Filing Cabinet
Description:
B/W photograph of Philip McLean's model boats displayed in back of pick-up truck in driveway
5161Northeast Harbor Fire House
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Public Safety, Fire Station
  • Transportation, Truck, Fire Truck
Northeast Harbor Fire House on Main Street with three trucks parked in front, one a 1948 snub-nosed Ford. The two men sitting in open truck are Fred Kimball of the police department and William S. Grant who donated the truck.
  • H. Eaton
  • 1949-1950
Northeast Harbor Fire House
Item:
  • 5161   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Public Safety, Fire Station
  • Transportation, Truck, Fire Truck
Creator:
  • H. Eaton
Date:
  • 1949-1950
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Collection:
  • Photograph
Object ID:
  • Photo 1582
Location:
  • Photograph Filing Cabinet
Description:
Northeast Harbor Fire House on Main Street with three trucks parked in front, one a 1948 snub-nosed Ford. The two men sitting in open truck are Fred Kimball of the police department and William S. Grant who donated the truck.
5694Northeast Harbor Ambulance Co., Ambulance
  • Image, Photograph
  • Transportation, Automobile, Motor Ambulance
Ambulance parked on lawn in front of a house.
  • Dexter Witt, Freeport IL
  • 1949
  • 1 photograph
Northeast Harbor Ambulance Co., Ambulance
Item:
  • 5694   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Transportation, Automobile, Motor Ambulance
Creator:
  • Dexter Witt, Freeport IL
Date:
  • 1949
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Collection:
  • Photograph
Object ID:
  • Photo 2080 DW
Location:
  • Photograph Filing Cabinet
Pages:
  • 1 photograph
Description:
Ambulance parked on lawn in front of a house.
7100New England in National Leadership - 1895 - The First Steam Railroad Electrification!
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Transportation, Railroad
By Howard S. Palmer, member of the Newcomen Society, president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company. With an opening poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Broomstick Train".
  • Howard S. Palmer
  • 1945
  • 24
  • 1 booklet
  • good
New England in National Leadership - 1895 - The First Steam Railroad Electrification!
Item:
  • 7100   
Type:
  • Publication, Booklet
Subject:
  • Transportation, Railroad
Creator:
  • Howard S. Palmer
Date:
  • 1945
Place:
  • New England
Collection:
  • Special Collection Books
Object ID:
  • SCB 621.33 PAL
Location:
  • Shelf 6A3
Pages:
  • 24
Medium:
  • 1 booklet
Condition:
  • good
Description:
By Howard S. Palmer, member of the Newcomen Society, president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company. With an opening poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Broomstick Train".