Description: 1.The Davis Bar Harbor Buckboard Company (c. 1889),copy of news paper article. “The Davis Bar Harbor Buckboard Company - First Manufacturing Concern in Bar Harbor - W.H. Davis, L.B. Decey (Deasy?), C.E. Marcyes”. Company on School Street in Bar Harbor. Circa 1889. 2 "Memories of old Bar Harbor..." Down East Magazine, July 1976, by Cathleen Sherman Clayton. (Author's parents were native to Bar Harbor, who established a hardware business in 1892.) Illustrated with photos. 3. Map, Village of Bar Harbor, Bar Harbor, Town of Eden, Mount Desert, c.1881. 4."The Fire," typwritten ms. by Horace H. Leavitt, Pres,. V.I.A., Nov. 2, 1947. Report on various aspects of fighting the fire with total community support. [show more]
Description: Two page typewritten Bicentennial Notes pertaining to 1) Colby's Atlas of Hancock County,Maine, 2) Bass Harbor Head Light, 3) Schooner Head and 4) 1900 visit of British ship HMS Quail to Bar Harbor.
Description: Contains brief written descriptions of activities, accommodations, and more. No date given, but mentions the Building of Arts, USN Radio Station at Otter Cliffs.
Description: This is 5 pages of a draft with LaRue Spiker's handwriting on it. It is about the Hudson River School artists visiting the island and other visitors to the island Previously Archived as object Id 012.FIC.052.4, **1382
Description: Compares Bar Harbor, the Queen of Summer Resorts, to Holman Day poem. Spiker suggests you might see J.P. Morgan's or Jacob Aster's yacht Previoulsy archived as object id 012.FIC.063.04
Description: Booklet of 32 pp. detailing powers, responsibilities and governance of the Town of Bar Harbor. Part of LaRue Spiker Collection Previously archived as Object id 012.FIC.062.1
Description: Seven page oversized document detailing proposed land subdivision standards for the town of Bar Harbor. The document was to be reviewed at a public hearing in January, 1974. Part of LaRue Spiker Collection Previously archived as object id 012.FIC.062.3
Description: Supplement to the Bar Harbor Times, each including several artices, pertaining to development in the towns of Mt. Desert Island and Trenton. Bar Harbor Struggles with Big City Problems; Previously archived as object Id 012.FIC.043.4
Description: One of three color negatives of a white frame house, and sign Leonard Motel Annes. Used for postcards, early 1966. Postcards published by Dexter Press. Annex is located on Holland Avenue, second home down from Mount Desert Street. Across Holland Avenue from the original Leonard Motel building.
Description: One of three color negatives showing motel, sign, and brick telephone building in background, used for postcards to advertise Leonard's Motel, Bar Harbor, Maine, published Nov. 1963. Motel located at the corner of Mount Desert Street and Holland Avenue.
Description: One of three color negatives of a white frame house, and sign Leonard Motel Annes. Used for postcards, early 1966. Postcards published by Dexter Press. Annex is located on Holland Avenue, second home down from Mount Desert Street. Across Holland Avenue from the original Leonard Motel building.
Description: One of three color negatives of a white frame house, and sign Leonard Motel Annes. Used for postcards, early 1966. Postcards published by Dexter Press. Annex is located on Holland Avenue, second home down from Mount Desert Street. Across Holland Avenue from the original Leonard Motel building.
Description: One of three color negatives showing motel, sign, and brick telephone building in background, used for postcards to advertise Leonard's Motel, Bar Harbor, Maine, published Nov. 1963. Motel located at the corner of Mount Desert Street and Holland Avenue. Original folder notes that Dexter Press published the postcards using one of the photos.
Description: One of three color negatives showing motel, sign, and brick telephone building in background, used for postcards to advertise Leonard's Motel, Bar Harbor, Maine, published Nov. 1963. Motel located at the corner of Mount Desert Street and Holland Avenue.