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10134Advertisement for Jordan Pond House
  • Document, Advertising, Advertisement
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • 1909
  • Acadia National Park
  • Jordan Pond
6281The Jordan Pond House
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • 1904
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
  • Jordan Pond
7018The Jordan Pond House
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • 1904
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
  • Jordan Pond
9147Small Dam in Allenstown
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Structures, Hydraulic, Dam
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1909-10-20
  • Allenstown PA
10347Nell Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton and Seth Sprague Thornton's House at Ashland, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Carroll - Nellie Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton (1871-1958)
  • 1905 c.
  • Ashland ME
Probably the first place Nell and Seth Thornton lived after they were married. Rented space in this house? Nell's inscription for this picture says, "The house we live in."
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Probably the first place Nell and Seth Thornton lived after they were married. Rented space in this house? Nell's inscription for this picture says, "The house we live in."
6729Hotel Florence and Village Green, Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1906 c.
  • Bar Harbor
“…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."
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“…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]
12224A. Bird Cough, Fine Groceries and Provisions
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Store
  • 1902-08-12
  • Bar Harbor
  • 26 Cottage Street
6727Malvern Hotel, Cottages, Kebo Street, Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • The American News Company, New York
  • 1908 PM
  • Bar Harbor
7484Simeon Holden Mayo and his 1907 Maxwell Automobile at the Florence Hotel, Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • 1908
  • Bar Harbor
6732St. Saviour's Episcopal Church and Rectory
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1906 c.
  • Bar Harbor
  • 41 Mount Desert Street
3024Famous Hotel's End - Rodick House
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • 1906
  • Bar Harbor
6934St. Sauveur Hotel
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1907
  • Bar Harbor, Eden
6994Building of Arts, Eden
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Civic, Performing Arts, Theater
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1908 PM
  • Bar Harbor, Eden
10193View of the Maine Central Ferry Landing at Bar Harbor from the Newport House Piazza
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Places, Harbor
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Irish - Elwood W. Irish
  • 1902
  • Bar Harbor, Eden
9086Otis Hill
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Structures, Agricultural, Barn
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1905-09-11
  • Belfast ME
5169The Johnson Homestead, Belfast, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1903-07-13
  • Belfast ME
9028The Johnson Homestead and Garden, Belfast, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1902-08-15
  • Belfast ME
9029The Johnson Homestead and Garden, Belfast, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1902-08-15
  • Belfast ME
9038Edward and Georgianna Parker (Miller) Johnson, Mrs. and Mrs. Edward Johnson
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1903-07-13
  • Belfast ME
9039Garden of Charles Bellows Hazeltine, Belfast, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • People
  • Places, Garden
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1903-07-13
  • Belfast ME
9087The Johnson Homestead from the rear, Belfast, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1905-09-11
  • Belfast ME
6707The Graves Light, Boston
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • Reichner Bros., Boston
  • 1909 PM
  • Boston MA
9088Shelter at the Arnold Arboretum
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Places
  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1906
  • Boston MA
9557Graves Light Under Construction
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • 1905-07-24
  • Boston MA
5104The Nelson Curtis House, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1907
  • Boston MA, Jamaica Plain
  • 57 Eliot Street
Jamaica Pond can be seen in the distance. Next door to the home of Henry L. Rand from at least 1910 to 1920: Sarah Lancaster Dexter James House MA – Jamaica Plain – Eliot Street – 051
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Jamaica Pond can be seen in the distance. Next door to the home of Henry L. Rand from at least 1910 to 1920: Sarah Lancaster Dexter James House MA – Jamaica Plain – Eliot Street – 051