SOLD Lost Bar Harbor Maine Book Historical Society Photographs

Books : History : Maine

 

Lost Bar Harbor. G.W. Helfrich, Gladys O’Neil Date: 1982. Publisher: Down East Books. Camden, Maine. Photographs from the collection of the Bar Harbor Historical Society. 125 pp, includes one page index. Size: 8 1/2" X 10.” Trade paperback, stiff card cover. Excellent blk/wht photographs.

From the Back Cover:

“From the 1880s to the end of World War I, the fashionable resort of Bar Harbor attracted thousands of summer visitors with the money and leisure to pursue ‘the simple life on a grand scale,’ as A. Atwater Kent put it. They came to rusticate, dance, sail, picnic, flirt - and they did it all with style. Many relaxed at Bar Harbor’s lavish hotels, while others built even more lavish and fanciful ‘cottages’ for their own summer retreats.”

“That dazzling era is just a memory now. The Depression and World War II undermined the summer colony, and the Great Fire of 1947 dealt the final blow. Those summer homes and hotels which survived the blaze generally succumbed to changing times, and only a handful stand today.”

“Eighty-six vanished summer palaces are pictured in LOST BAR HARBOR. Outstanding photographs, many never before published, from the Bar Harbor Historical Society collection are supplemented by a lively text describing the estates and the colorful inhabitants. LOST BAR HARBOR presents the most comprehensive collection of early Bar Harbor photographs ever assembled, providing an unequaled glimpse of one of the world’s great watering places.”

Condition: Pages are clean with no writing. There is a narrow water/liquid stain on the lower spine edge; 1 1/4" on the right side of spine edge and 1/4" on other. While the narrow stain shows on the bottom page edges, it does not show on the pages themselves. Old price tag on back.

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Item ID: RL-1635C