Automobiles along the road at front - Left to Right: The automobile with the hood open is a 1954 Ford Hardtop. 1948 Chrysler 1950-1951 Studebaker Behind tree - 1953 Ford station wagon. W.H. Ballard wrote this note on the negative sleeve for the photograph: "“Bluenose” Ferry Terminal, Bar Harbor, ME; taken the day the Bar Harbor-Yarmouth ferry was officially welcomed (service had been on since the early part of January). Blowing a hard SE gale, and I had to press down so hard on the camera that the tripod sagged. I was the only one who remained on the ridge."
Description: Automobiles along the road at front - Left to Right: The automobile with the hood open is a 1954 Ford Hardtop. 1948 Chrysler 1950-1951 Studebaker Behind tree - 1953 Ford station wagon. W.H. Ballard wrote this note on the negative sleeve for the photograph: "“Bluenose” Ferry Terminal, Bar Harbor, ME; taken the day the Bar Harbor-Yarmouth ferry was officially welcomed (service had been on since the early part of January). Blowing a hard SE gale, and I had to press down so hard on the camera that the tripod sagged. I was the only one who remained on the ridge." [show more]
The wood building at the left is the Bradley Block which was located between the First National and Bar Harbor Banks of 2007. Just visible on the awning is a mortar and pestle sign for a druggist. The building just to the right of the white store is A.W. Bee, Stationer. The large hotel at right was the Rodick House. The freshly renovated Rodick House is garnished with new trees planted and braced on the lawn. There are board sidewalks at the edge of the dirt road which, in turn, is garnished with manure from the many carriage horses shown in the picture. The sign at front lefts says, "Berry Bros. - Boarding Hack and Livery Stable - Cottage Street - Single & Double Teams Furnished Short Notice" The sign at front right says, "Café - John Dean - Phila Caterer - Chicken Croquettes - Medicated (?) Chicken Consomme"
Description: The wood building at the left is the Bradley Block which was located between the First National and Bar Harbor Banks of 2007. Just visible on the awning is a mortar and pestle sign for a druggist. The building just to the right of the white store is A.W. Bee, Stationer. The large hotel at right was the Rodick House. The freshly renovated Rodick House is garnished with new trees planted and braced on the lawn. There are board sidewalks at the edge of the dirt road which, in turn, is garnished with manure from the many carriage horses shown in the picture. The sign at front lefts says, "Berry Bros. - Boarding Hack and Livery Stable - Cottage Street - Single & Double Teams Furnished Short Notice" The sign at front right says, "Café - John Dean - Phila Caterer - Chicken Croquettes - Medicated (?) Chicken Consomme" [show more]
“…the…Hotel Porcupine, later the Florence (1887; burned, 1918), a Main Street, five-story rectangular block with Shingle-style features and a strong sense of verticality represented by its stacked window bays, bay roof caps, steep-pitched roof planes, and tall, corbelled brick chimneys…represented [with the larger Malvern Hotel] an impressive conclusion to Bar Harbor’s opulent Victorian hotel era.” - “Summer By The Seaside: The Architecture of New England Coastal Resort Hotels, 1820-1950” by Bryant F. Tolles, Jr., p. 165, 170, University Press of New England – 2008 - An excellent study including information about The Island House in Southwest Harbor and its place in the range of hotels on the island during this period along with a very complete history of many of the Bar Harbor hotels. "For the origins and summary of the Bar Harbor hotel scene and the social life that surrounded it, including the first visit of the fleet to Bar Harbor see – “Bar Harbor: The Hotel Era, 1868-1880” by Richard A. Savage, Chapter 17, p. 226 in “Maine – A History Through Selected Readings” edited by David C. Smith and Edward O. Schriver – 1985 The article originally appeared in the “Maine Historical Society Newsletter,” Vol. 10, No.4, May 1971, pp. 101-121 For the complete story of the Leightons and Maine postcards see: ""Greetings from Maine: A Postcard Album"" by R. Brewster Harding, published by Old Port Publishing Co., Portland, 1975 - ""Turn of the Century Views of America's Pine Tree State as recorded by Portland's Picture Postcard Pioneers, Chisholm Bros., the Hugh C. Leighton Co., the Geo. W. Morris Co. and others 1888-1915. This book appears to be the source for other published information on the subject."
Description: “…the…Hotel Porcupine, later the Florence (1887; burned, 1918), a Main Street, five-story rectangular block with Shingle-style features and a strong sense of verticality represented by its stacked window bays, bay roof caps, steep-pitched roof planes, and tall, corbelled brick chimneys…represented [with the larger Malvern Hotel] an impressive conclusion to Bar Harbor’s opulent Victorian hotel era.” - “Summer By The Seaside: The Architecture of New England Coastal Resort Hotels, 1820-1950” by Bryant F. Tolles, Jr., p. 165, 170, University Press of New England – 2008 - An excellent study including information about The Island House in Southwest Harbor and its place in the range of hotels on the island during this period along with a very complete history of many of the Bar Harbor hotels. "For the origins and summary of the Bar Harbor hotel scene and the social life that surrounded it, including the first visit of the fleet to Bar Harbor see – “Bar Harbor: The Hotel Era, 1868-1880” by Richard A. Savage, Chapter 17, p. 226 in “Maine – A History Through Selected Readings” edited by David C. Smith and Edward O. Schriver – 1985 The article originally appeared in the “Maine Historical Society Newsletter,” Vol. 10, No.4, May 1971, pp. 101-121 For the complete story of the Leightons and Maine postcards see: ""Greetings from Maine: A Postcard Album"" by R. Brewster Harding, published by Old Port Publishing Co., Portland, 1975 - ""Turn of the Century Views of America's Pine Tree State as recorded by Portland's Picture Postcard Pioneers, Chisholm Bros., the Hugh C. Leighton Co., the Geo. W. Morris Co. and others 1888-1915. This book appears to be the source for other published information on the subject." [show more]
Description: This photograph was taken on Newport Avenue in Bar Harbor, slightly south of the present-day Agamont Park. Porcupine Island is in the background.