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Keywords: Bar Harbor Club

Historical Items

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Item 25003

Swimming Pool Club, Bar Harbor, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: 1903 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard

Item 18632

Bar Harbor Club, ca. 1935

Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1935 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard

Item 18633

Bar Harbor Swimming Club, ca. 1906

Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1906 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 111335

Club House, Bar Harbor, 1887

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1887 Location: Bar Harbor Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Online Exhibits

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Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

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400 years of New Mainers

Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.

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Holding up the Sky: Wabanaki people, culture, history, and art

Learn about Native diplomacy and obligation by exploring 13,000 years of Wabanaki residence in Maine through 17th century treaties, historic items, and contemporary artworks—from ash baskets to high fashion. Wabanaki voices contextualize present-day relevance and repercussions of 400 years of shared histories between Wabanakis and settlers to their region.

Site Pages

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Bar Harbor Historical Society

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Bar Harbor: Building of Arts

"1930 Building of Arts, Bar HarborJesup Memorial Library The September 13, 1905 edition of the Bar Harbor Record made the announcement: “A New…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"1980Northeast Harbor Library Northeast Harbor was one of the last villages on Mount Desert Island to develop a business center."

My Maine Stories

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History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars

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The Wall
by Michael Uhl

What it means to have beaten the odds

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My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne

Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima