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1085Plein Air Painting on the Shore Path, Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature
  • Linda Rowell Kelley
  • 2020-03
Description:
Plein Air Painters of Acadia is a group of plein air painters on Mount Desert Island, painting local scenes. They meet at locations around the area and work side by side. The group began in 2018. The Shore Path scene in the photograph was painted by Linda Rowell Kelley, artist and plein air painter.
1086Bar Harbor Town Clock in Winter
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Town
  • Kathy MacLeod
  • 2019-03
Description:
The Town Clock was presented to the town of Eden (later named Bar Harbor) for its centennial celebration in July 1896 by the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association. The clock is located on Main St. by the Village Green. The Town Clock is a reminder of earlier times when clocks of its kind were more commonplace. This photo was taken by Kathy MacLeod, who was a Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association Board Member from 2015-2020.
1049Records of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association (1890 - 1996)
  • Document, List, Index
  • Places, Town
  • Banks, Elizabeth
  • Childrey, Brooke
  • 1996-03-15
Description:
This document is a 37 page finding aid for the BHVIA collection as of March 1996.
1037Bird's-eye view of Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Map
  • Places, Town
  • Rainoff, GregRainoff, Greg
  • 1981
Description:
Print of a pen and ink, bird's-eye view of Bar Harbor, Maine.
1002B.L. Hadley to Dale J. Foley Letter, July 12, 1950
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Hadley, B. L.
  • 1950-07-12
Description:
National Parks Service superintendent B.L. Hadley writes in regard to the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association's offer of Sheep Porcupine Island to become a part of Acadia National Park. Mr. Hadley tells Mr. Foley that the government needs an assessed valuation of the island, a statement from the town of Gouldsboro, and a warranty deed and abstract of title for the island. People Mentioned: Edwin Smith
1038Duck Brook Motor Bridge Under Construction
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Park
  • Structures, Transportation, Bridge
  • 1950 - 1951 c
Description:
Construction of the bridge, located on Paradise Hill Road, began in 1950 and was completed in 1952. A photocopy of a photograph of the Duck Brook Motor Bridge on Mount Desert Island, Maine, under construction. Black and White
1015Sidney N. Shurcliff to Amory Thorndike Letter, September 25, 1941
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Tourism
  • Recreation
  • Shurcliff, Sidney N.
  • 1941-09-25
Description:
A letter from landscape architect Sidney N. Shurcliff confirming that he is to make a plan of a proposed parkway. People Mentioned: Robert Patterson
1014V. Roswell Ludgate Maintenance of Vistas in Acadia National Park Letter, August 2, 1941
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Tourism
  • Recreation
  • 1941-08-02
Description:
An unsigned letter to V. Roswell Ludgate of the National Park Service asking that vistas in Acadia National Park, which have become obscured by tree growth, be cleared. People Mentioned: George B. Dorr
1083Fiftieth Annual Report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, 1941
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
  • Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • 1941-07
Description:
Annual report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association. For the year ending July 31st, 1941. The report includes individual committee reports, a list of members, and the association's charter and by-laws. 3 copies, 24 pages.
1046Bar Harbor Blue Book Directory, 1941
  • Publication, Directory
  • Other, Tourism
  • Places, Park
  • Butler, Belle F.
  • Coffin, Eleanor K.
  • Blue Book
  • 1941
Description:
The Blue Book Directory for Bar Harbor, Maine. The directory contains listings for Bar Harbor businesses and organizations and information for tourists. Tourist information includes mail schedules, transportation schedules, facts about Mount Desert Island and itinerary suggestions. People Mentioned: George C. Abbott, Frank E. Adair, Mrs. Timothee Adamowski, Timothee Adamowski, Alice Ahlborn, Frank Alley, Mrs. William C. Allison III, William C. Allison III, A. Fitzroy Anderson, Mrs. A. Fitzroy Anderson, Anne Andreco, Alfred Anson, Mrs. Alfred Anson, Bedros K. Apelian, John Ash, Harold Ashworth, Mrs. Harold Ashworth, Mrs. Walter Ayer, Arlan A. Baillie, Andre Bailly, Mrs. Henry Bainbridge Baker, John Hampton Barnes, Mrs. John Hampton Barnes, Cecil Barret, Mrs. Cecil Barret, Hermione Barrett, Mary Barstow, Joseph Barth, George E. Batcheller, Mrs. George E. Batcheller, George H. Beard, Mrs. George Beard, Mrs. Samuel Bell, Alfred W. Birks, John J. Bittner, Mrs. Gist Blair, Patricia Blanchfield, Dwight Blaney, Margaret H. Blaney, Richard Blaney, Gerald Borden, Mrs. Gerald Borden, Neal D. Bousfield, Edith G. Bowdoin, George Brace, Shirley Bracy, Rockwell S. Brank, Merrill F. Brewer Jr., Carroll C. Brown, Mrs. Frederick Brown, William Adams Brown, Mrs. Edward Browning, Constantin Brun, Bosman du Bucq, Mrs. Bosman du Bucq, Jack Burke, Mrs. Henry D. Burnham, Nina H. Burnham, James Byrne, Mrs. James Byrne, Agnes Miles Carpenter, Mrs. C. Carroll Carpenter, Alton E. Carter, Emmett Carter, Fred L. Carter, Harold Carter, Mrs. Emmett Carter, Mrs. D. Crawford Clark, Arthur M. Cloudman, Mrs. J. B. Cochran, S. A. Coffin, Mrs. William H. Cole, William H. Cole, Frances Coleman, Arthur N. Coles, Mary Robert Coles, Mrs. Tristram Coffin Colket, Tristram Coffin Colket, Mrs. John Conti, Jay Cooke, Mrs. Jay Cooke, Harry C. Copp, William C. Covert, Albert Cunningham, Leroy Currier, S. R. Dabney, Frances Daggett, Bernard Dahlgren, Mrs. Ulric Dahlgren, Ulric Dahlgren, Mrs. Walter Damrosch, Walter Damrosch, Mrs. John Dane, Augustin Derby, Mrs. Augustin Derby, George B. Dorr, Mrs. John T. Dorrance, H. Paul Douglass, Edward K. Dunham, Walter Eccles, Samuel A. Eliot, Mrs. Augustus Van Horne Ellis, John B. Ells, Jacqueline Embree, Mrs. Shepard Fabbri, Max Farrand, Mrs. Max Farrand, Alma E. Farrar, Elizabeth Fekete, J. Brooks Fenno, Mrs. J. Brooks Fenno, Mrs. Paul Ferguson, Paul Ferguson, Margot Finletter, Edward F. Fitzpatrick, Dale J. Foley, Henry P. De Forest, Vesta Foster, J. Austin Furfey, Charles Geasey, J. C. Gerndt, Mrs. J. C. Gerndt, J. W. Gilfillan, George H. Gledhill, Harry L. Gordon, Washington Grant, Bell Gurnee, Fred L. Hadley, Mary Hadley, Mrs. Chandler Hale, Mrs. Richard Walden Hale, Richard Walden Hale, Mrs.William Pierson Hamilton, William Pierson Hamilton, Leslie I. Hamor, Mrs. S. H. Hamor, Dwight C. Harris, Mrs. Dwight C. Harris, Mrs. Dwight Miller Harris, Henry Reed Hatfield, Mrs. Morris Hawkes, James Heard, Mrs. James Heard, Etienne de Hedry, Mariska de Hedry, Mrs. Etienne de Hedry, Cecil F. Higgins, Edgar S. Higgins, H. P. Higgins, R. G. Higgins, Mrs. M. Hinzelin, Almon B. Hodgkins, Mary Hoffman, Frank O. Holmes, Edward Hopkins, Mrs. Harold A. Howard, Mrs. Platt Hunt, Mrs. Daniel L. Hutchinson Jr., Reginald Hutchinson, Louise Iselin, Frederick Jack, Roscoe B. Jackson, Mrs. Peter Augustus Jay, Jack Jellison, Hallett Johnson Jr., Hallett Johnson, Katherine Johnson, Mrs. Hallett Johnson, Mrs. Reginald Johnson, Mrs. Van Rensselaer Johnson, Priscilla Johnson, Helen S. Jones, Rufus M. Jones, Thomas Jones, William S. Jones, Charles R. Joy, Otis Keene, F. Leonard Kellogg, Mrs. F. Leonard Kellogg, Hugh N. Kelly, Marion Kemp, A. Atwater Kent, Mrs. William Keyser, Herman Kiaer, Mrs. Herman Kiaer, Mrs. Philip Kierstead, Philip Kierstead, J. W. Kilbreth, Mrs. J. W. Kilbreth, Lou Koch, Mrs. Reginald de Koven, Marshall Langhorne, Mrs. Marshall Langhorne, Albert C. Larned, Mrs. Albert C. Larned, C. Frederick Larrabee, William Lawrence, Horace H. Leavitt, A. G. Leffingwell, Alsop Leffingwell, Douglas Leffingwell, M. M. Leffingwell, Mrs. Louis C. Lehr, Louise Leland, Jessica H. Lewis, Mrs. Warren H. Lewis, Warren H. Lewis, Seth E. Libby, Shirley M. Liscomb, Clarence C. Little, Mrs. Clarence C. Little, John C. Livingston, E. Victor Loew, Mrs. E. Victor Loew, Mrs. Seth Morton Van Loon, Seth Morton Van Loon, Harold Loring, Mrs. Lea McIlvaine Luquer, Fred C. Lynam, Philip Mabel, Kenneth Mansfield, Mrs. Theodore Marburg, Theodore Marburg, Richard Marcyes, Etienne de Markowski, E. K. Marshall, Julia B. Marshall, Mrs. E. K. Marshall, Richard Marshall, George V. Marston, Mrs. George V. Marston, Mrs. R. C. Masterman, Mrs. Edward Porter May, Mildred McCormick, Howard McFarland, Ambrose McKay, Rachel McKelvey, Richard E. McKown, Dwight H. McMahon, George G. McMurtry, Mrs. George G. McMurtry, Mrs. William McNair, William McNair, Arthur McQuinn, Edward B. Mears, M. E. Mears, E. Macculloch Miller, James F. Mitchell, Mrs. James F. Mitchell, Mrs. Maurice La Montagne, William Moore Jr., Clement C. Moore, David E. Moore, Mrs. Clement C. Moore, Mrs. William S. Moore, William S. Moore, Henry Morgenthau, Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, David Hennen Morris, Mrs. David Hennen Morris, Charles C. Morrison Jr., Agnes Morrison, E. J. Morrison, Mrs. J. Alden Morse, W. A. Mortimer-Markowski, George S. Munson, Maxwell Munson, Mrs. George S. Munson, Mrs. Maxwell Munson, Natalie Munson, James B. Murphy, Joseph M. Murray, Lowell Murray, J. Homer Nelson, Arthur L. Norton, Mrs. Stanley J. G. Nowak, Stanley J. G. Nowak, Harry Oakes, Harriet V. C. Ogden, Mrs. Potter Palmer, Pauline Palmer, Potter Palmer, Mary W. Pancoast, Mrs. W. Howard Pancoast, W. Howard Pancoast, Alice Parker, Mrs. William Ordway Partridge, Mrs. A. Mansfield Patterson, Gertrude L. Peabody, Marian Lawrence Peabody, John DeWitt Peltz, Mrs. John DeWitt Peltz, Leslie T. Pennington, Palfrey Perkins, Leo Perry, Claudia Phelps, Mrs. Sheffield Phelps, Eugene du Pont, Mrs. Eugene du Pont, Mrs. Reginald Preble, Mrs. William Proctor, William Proctor, Eleanor Pulitzer, Joseph Pulitzer, Kate Pulitzer, Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Mrs. M. Taylor Pyne, John L. Quigg, Viola B. Quimby, Warren Scott Reeve, Alice Van Rensselaer, George Renwick, Daniel Reynolds, Mrs. Stanley Marshall Rinehart, Arden Robbins, George S. Robbins, Mrs. Arden Robbins, Mrs. George S. Robbins, Martin Roberts, Mrs. Thomas Robins, Thomas Robins, Mary Robson, Catherine Rogers, Alphonse de Rothschild, Rodney W. Roundy, Mrs. Frank B. Rowell, Dael Royce, Mrs. A. H. Royce, E. S. Russell, William L. Russell, Mrs. Allen Salisbury, Pearl Salisbury, Charles E. Sampson, Gertrude Sampson, Walter Sanborn, Herbert L. Satterlee, Henry Hallam Saunderson, J. H. Sawyer, Mrs. William I. Schaffer, William I. Schaffer, Mildred W. S. Schram, Hugh D. Scott, J. Paul Scott, John M. Scott, Mrs. Edgar Scott, Mrs. Hugh D. Scott, Mrs. Thomas Shea, Thomas Shea, William Siegmund Jr., Mrs. William B. Siegmund, Sally Siegmund, William B. Siegmund, John W. Silk Jr., Mrs. Arthur Sinclair, Foster Skillman, Mrs. Frank Foster Skillman, Judson Slack, Arthur Slingsby, George M. Smith, Homer W. Smith, Mrs. C. Morton Smith, Mrs. Homer W. Smith, George D. Snell, Madeline Stanyan, William Stanyan, Mrs. William Sterling, Mrs. Robert H. Stevenson, Robert H. Stevenson, Margaret Steward, Mrs. Campbell Steward, Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, Kendrick Strong, Mrs. Walter K. Sturges, George Sullivan, Maurice Sullivan, Harry E. Sutton, Mrs. Thomas Bell Sweeney, Thomas Bell Sweeney, Henry O. Tallmadge, Mrs. Henry O. Tallmadge, Mrs. J. Madison Taylor, John B. Thayer III, John B. Thayer IV, John B. Thayer, Julie Thayer, Lois Thayer, Mrs. John B. Thayer, Pauline Thayer, Dorothy Thibaut, Harry Thomas, Brinton Thompson, Julia Thompson, Mrs. Brinton Thompson, Amory Thorndike, Mrs. Harry Hill Thorndike, Frank Tracy, Arthur Train, John Train, Mrs. Arthur Train, Warren J. Tribou, Mrs. Samuel A. Tucker, Samuel A. Tucker, Kenneth S. Usher, R. W. Wakefield, Kenneth C. Walker, Asa Wasgatt, Mrs. Asa V. Wasgatt, Richard Wasgatt, John J. Weast, Chester A. Wescott, Pearl Wescott, Mrs. Richard Wetzel, Richard Wetzel, Raymond E. Weymouth, John Whitcomb, Adelaide White, H. P. Whitmore, Amos N. Wilder, Mrs. Montgomery Willcox, Harry Willey, Harold Williams, Malcolm O. Willis, Mrs. William Wilson, Arthur E. Wilson, George W. Woolley, Mrs. C. K. Wright, Mrs. Richard Van Wyck, Mrs. Nathan C. Wyeth, Gladys Young, Mrs. A. Murray Young, Mrs. C. Doran Young [show more]
1082Forty-ninth Annual Report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, 1940
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
  • Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • 1940-07
Description:
Annual report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association. For the year ending July 31st, 1940. The report includes individual committee reports, a list of members, and the association's charter and by-laws. 5 copies, 32 pages
1003George B. Dorr to R.A. Thorndike Letter, July 24, 1939
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Tourism
  • Recreation
  • Dorr, George B.
  • 1939-07-24
Description:
Acadia National Park superintendent George Dorr writes in response to a request from the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association for brush removal in order to maintain vistas along park roads. Mr. Dorr requests that the Village Improvement Association start referring to Bubble Pond Road and Summit Road as such in future correspondence and publications.
1081Forty-eighth Annual Report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, 1939
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
  • Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • 1939-07
Description:
Annual report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association. For the year ending July 31st, 1939. The report includes individual committee reports, a list of members, and the association's charter and by-laws. 5 copies, 29 pages
1080Forty-seventh Annual Report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, 1938
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
  • Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • 1938-08
Description:
Annual report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association. For the year ending August 1st, 1938. The report includes individual committee reports, a list of members, and the association's charter and by-laws. 28 pages, includes handwritten notes.
1079Forty-sixth Annual Report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, 1937
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
  • Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • 1937-09
Description:
Annual report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association. For the year ending September 1st, 1937. The report includes individual committee reports, a list of members, and the association's charter and by-laws. 32 pages.
1078Forty-fifth Annual Report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, 1936
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
  • Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • 1936-09
Description:
Annual report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association. For the year ending September 1st, 1936. The report includes individual committee reports, a list of members, and the association's charter and by-laws. 10 copies, 41 pages.
1077Forty-second Annual Report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, 1931
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
  • Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • 1933-09
Description:
Annual report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association. For the year ending September 1st, 1933. The report includes individual committee reports, a list of members, and the association's charter and by-laws. 37 pages.
1076Forty-first Annual Report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, 1931
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
  • Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • 1932-09
Description:
Annual report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association. For the year ending September 1st, 1932. The report includes individual committee reports, a list of members, and the association's charter and by-laws. 38 pages.
1075Fortieth Annual Report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, 1931
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
  • Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • 1931-09
Description:
Annual report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association. For the year ending September 13rd, 1931. The report includes individual committee reports, a list of members, and the association's charter and by-laws. 33 pages.
1074Thirty-ninth Annual Report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, 1930
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
  • Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • 1930-09
Description:
Annual report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association. For the year ending September 1st, 1930. The report includes individual committee reports, a list of members, and the association's charter and by-laws. 39 pages.
1073Thirty-eighth Annual Report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, 1929
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
  • Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • 1929-09
Description:
Annual report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association. For the year ending September 5th, 1929. The report includes individual committee reports, a list of members, and the association's charter and by-laws. 2 copies, 44 pages.
1072Thirty-seventh Annual Report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, 1928
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
  • Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • 1928-09
Description:
Annual report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association. For the year ending September 16th, 1928. The report includes individual committee reports, a list of members, and the association's charter and by-laws. 47 pages.
1048The Future of Mount Desert Island Report, 1928
  • Document, Report
  • Other, Tourism
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Park
  • Recreation
  • Eliot, Charles W.
  • Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • 1928
Description:
A report by landscape architect Charles W. Eliot on the conservation of nature and the character of Mount Desert Island. The report features maps and photographs. People Mentioned: Gist Blair, Parker Corning, George B. Dorr, Charles S. Frost, William Lawrence, Fred C. Lunam, Vance McCormick, David Hennen Morris, Charles P. Pike, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Hubert Work
1071Thirty-sixth Annual Report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, 1927
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
  • Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • 1927-09
Description:
Annual report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association. For the year ending September 1st, 1927. The report includes individual committee reports, a list of members, and the association's charter and by-laws. 42 pages.
1016Arno B. Cammerer to Gist Blair Letter, August 6, 1927
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Tourism
  • Cammerer, Arno B.
  • 1927-08-06
Description:
A letter from Arno Cammerer, the acting director of the National Park Service, to Gist Blair of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, regarding the arrival of a government landscape architect. Cammerer assures Blair that, despite continued delays, the National Park Service wants to work with Blair's organization toward a plan for Lafayette National Park's future development. People Mentioned: Charles W. Eliot