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.
Description: Notice the elaborate hat worn by the lady in the front seat! 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.
Description: B/W Photograph of U.S. Navy Airship "Shenandoah" hovering off Bar Island in Frenchman's Bay (July 3/4, 1925). The vessel to the left is Harry Haskell's yacht "Vanda." Some months later the airship was destroyed by lightning in one of the central States of the USA.
Description: Left to right: Albert Erastus Hodgdon (1900-1997) - on tractor Dennis Ezra Norwood (1870-1956) - father-in-law to Albert John or Fred Hodgdon on the seat The tractor is a Caterpillar Ten, introduced in 1928 and manufactured from 1929 to 1932. It was the smallest tractor Caterpillar made at the time, powered by a four-cylinder, gas motor rated at between 15 and 18 horsepower, and weighed 4,420 pounds.
Description: It contains drawings of various places on Mount Desert Island and a map of Bar Harbor village. 1. Photo 2101 a: Bar Harbor from Bar Island 2. Photo 2101 b: Bar Harbor from Scotts Hill 3. Photo 2101 c: Harbor View 4. Photo 2101 d: Great Heat 5. Photo 2101 e: Schooner Head 6. Photo 2101 f: Otter Cliffs 7. Photo 2101 g: Cathedral Rock 8. Photo 2101 h: The Profile 9. Photo 2101 i: View at Bar Harbor 10. Photo 2101 j: West End Hotel 11. Photo 2101 k: On the Road to Otter Cliffs 12. Photo 2101 l: Balance Rock 13. Photo 2101 m: Bass Head Light House 14. Photo 2101 n: The Spouting Horn 15. Photo 2101 o: Drive to Great Head 16. Photo 2101 p: The Rodic House 17. Photo 2101 q: Southwest Harbor 18. Photo 2101 r: Mount Desert as seen from M.C.R.R. Station 19. Photo 2101 s: Eagle Lake 20. Photo 2101 t: The Grand Central 21. Photo 2101 u: Green Mountain House, 1522 feet above sea level 22. Photo 2101 v: Green Mountain Railway 23. Photo 2101 w: Echo Lake and Cliffs 24. Photo 2101 x: Grenn Mountain Railway 25. Photo 2101 y: Head Somes Sound 26. Photo 2101 z: Anemone Cave 27. Photo 2101 z1: Mossley Hall, Bar Harbor. Private Residence 28. Plan of Bar Harbor [show more]
Description: Alice Graves was Mrs. T. N. Graves. Winter scene with Model T Ford in foreground. 1921 rented to Percy C. Madeira, 1925 to Montgomery family.
Description: A letter from Arno Cammerer, the assistant director of the National Parks Service, informing George Dorr that John D. Rockefeller Jr. has proposed to fund a project to create new roads in Lafayette National Park. Cammerer requests that Dorr bring the proposal to the attention of the residents and various organizations on Mount Desert Island and, following the input of the residents and organizations, reply with a recommendation for how the National Park Service should proceed. People Mentioned: John D. Rockefeller Jr., Hubert Work [show more]
Description: A letter from Arno Cammerer, the assistant director of the National Parks Service, informing George Dorr that John D. Rockefeller Jr. has proposed to fund a project to create new roads in Lafayette National Park. Cammerer requests that Dorr bring the proposal to the attention of the residents and various organizations on Mount Desert Island and, following the input of the residents and organizations, reply with a recommendation for how the National Park Service should proceed. People Mentioned: John D. Rockefeller Jr., Hubert Work [show more]
Description: A letter from the acting director of the National Park Service, Arno B. Cammerer, to the Lafayette National Park custodian, George B. Dorr. Cammerer informs Dorr that a proposed road project in Lafayette National Park has been approved. Cammerer believes the proposed plan will provide access to more of the park and states that the planning recognized the importance of keeping some areas remote from the development to maintain their wild character. People Mentioned: E. C. Finney, Frederick Hale, Bert Manfred Fernald, John Edward Nelson [show more]
Description: Horse-drawn buggy. Photograph likely taken in front of "Little Orchard". In the background is the Abram Gilpatrick House, visible is also the back side of the Rock End Hotel.