Description: Black company thermometer which reads: "A.B. Leland sewer and Drain Pipe Land Tile and Five Lining Catch Basnins Man Hole Covers. Office with the Clark Coal Co. Call 202 Bar Harbor, Me" on front and on back: "The Stan Wood Special Inside Thermometer - Keep in upright position - manufactured by Stan Wood MFG. Co. 8 Tremonl Row Boston."
Description: Silver plate gifted to the Bar Harbor gardening club by Beatrix Farrand to be the award for the best single roses category, then given to Mary Hodgkins as an prize for her single rose. Text engraved on plate reads: "A gift to the Bar Harbor Garden Club from Beatrix Farrand owner of Reef Point Gardens An award to be given annually for the best exhibit of Single Roses 1953"
Structures, Civic, Cultural & Recreational Structures
Date:
1910-08
Description: Poster for the Bar Harbor Horse Show. Poster is a Charles W. Holmes Lithograph depicting a woman with a light blue bonnet holding a parasol and holding a horse's face to her own. The Horse is poking its head out of a circle in the blank background of the print. Text of the poster reads: "Bar Harbor Horse Show Aug. 23, 24, 25 1910" In the lower left hand corner is the phrase "When Thoroughbreds Meet" and above that, next to the parasol tip, is Holmes' signature "Chas. W. Holmes". [show more]
Description: Painted black wood toy train with an attached train car. Engine car is black with six red wheels and yellow detail of the silhouette of conductor and the text: "1492 BHRR". Second car has four red wheels and carries nine blocks of wood suspended on a wooden pole. The two sections are attached with a small metal hook.
Description: Small white tea plate with scalloped edges. Painting in the middle depicts a sail boat in a harbor. Edges of plate have been decoratively painted with floral and gilded details with text that reads: "Steamboat Wharf Bar Harbor".
Description: Wooden company thermometer which reads: "Battery Service Company - Automotives, Electric starting, Lighting and Ignition - Sales and Service. 97-99 Cottage Street Bar Harbor."
Description: Two black and white photograph portraits of Beatrix Farrand set inside a brown leather folding portfolio. Portfolio is decorated with an embossed and gilded boarder. Photograph of Beatrix Farrand in light top (.01) and Photograph of Beatrix Farrand in dark top (.02)
Description: Varying sized of white paper with blue type. Larger sheet reads "Beatrix Farrand Landscape Gardener Reef Point Bar Harbor, Maine". Smaller sheets read "Reef Point Bar Harbor, Maine". Last pieces of stationary in which Farrand refers to herself as "Landscape Gardener".
Description: Silver inkwell with an engraving of the SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie and the name "Cecilie" engraved under. Inkwell belonged to SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie, a German ocean liner which came to Bar Harbor August 5, 1914.