Summering at Mount Desert Island. I’ll be back when it starts snowing. Images from the promotional work “Mount Desert Island with Pen and Pencil” which was compiled by Doctor William Berry Lapham (Doctor W. B. Latham). Published in 1886.

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Front cover. Image 5 of Mount Desert with pen and pencil. Doctor W. B. Latham, compiler. Published in New York by the Press of Liberty Printing Company in 1886. Collections of the Library of Congress. In the public domain due to age. via the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/barharbormountde00laph/page/n4/mode/1up
Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, Maine. Page 4, Image 10 of of Mount Desert with pen and pencil. Doctor W. B. Latham, compiler. Published in New York by the Press of Liberty Printing Company in 1886. Collections of the Library of Congress. In the public domain due to age. via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/barharbormountde00laph/page/4/mode/1up
Eagle Lake. Page 10, Image 16 of of Mount Desert with pen and pencil. Doctor W. B. Latham, compiler. Published in New York by the Press of Liberty Printing Company in 1886. Collections of the Library of Congress. In the public domain due to age. via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/barharbormountde00laph/page/10/mode/1up
Mount Desert from ‘The Bluffs.’ Mount Desert Ferry. Page 12, Image 18 of of Mount Desert with pen and pencil. Doctor W. B. Latham, compiler. Published in New York by the Press of Liberty Printing Company in 1886. Collections of the Library of Congress. In the public domain due to age. via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/barharbormountde00laph/page/12/mode/1up
The Ovens. Page 17, Image 23 of of Mount Desert with pen and pencil. Doctor W. B. Latham, compiler. Published in New York by the Press of Liberty Printing Company in 1886. Collections of the Library of Congress. In the public domain due to age. via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/barharbormountde00laph/page/17/mode/1up
Mount Desert, Looking up Some’s Sound. The Rand Avery Supply Company (lower left) was a Boston printing company. Page 21, Image 27 of of Mount Desert with pen and pencil. Doctor W. B. Latham, compiler. Published in New York by the Press of Liberty Printing Company in 1886. Collections of the Library of Congress. In the public domain due to age. via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/barharbormountde00laph/page/21/mode/1up
Page 49, Image 55 of of Mount Desert with pen and pencil. Doctor W. B. Latham, compiler. Published in New York by the Press of Liberty Printing Company in 1886. Collections of the Library of Congress. In the public domain due to age. via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/barharbormountde00laph/page/49/mode/1up

Just like some others I found a different version of this here but it’s a different edition? Not sure what but it has 72 pages not 60

https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/10003/dr-w-b-lapham-compiler/bar-harbor-and-mount-desert-island

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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