Looking through treetops to Moosehead Lake in dim blue light.

The colors of a sunset over the Kineo peninsula and Moosehead Lake, showing the Kineo House resort.

A mountain landscape with dark storm clouds overhead.

View of Moosehead Lake and the forests surrounding it, showing the Lily Bay Mountains in the distance.

The sheer cliff of Mount Kineo towers dramatically over people walking across an open field.

A man crouches beside his canoe on the shore of Moosehead Lake, seeming to examine a log. A small island is visible close to the shore.

A man paddles a canoe through turbulent water. Beyond the water is an early successional forest and mountains are visible in the distance.

Two men stand up in canoes, using poles to navigate the rapids.

View of five paddlers in four brightly colored canoes. Two camps are visible in the trees on the bank of the pond.

Two men sit on upturned canoes next to a birch tree, looking across Big Houston Pond toward a mountain in the distance.

View across Lake Onawa toward Borestone Mountain showing a rocky, tree-lined shore.

Three men head up the Penobscot River in a red canoe. Trees line the river bank and Katahdin is visible in the background.

Two men pose on a rock pile looking into the distance, one with binoculars.

View of the summit of Katahdin showing large boulders in the foreground.

View of Pamola, a summit on Katahdin at the eastern edge of the Knife Edge ridge.

View of a rocky plateau on Katahdin. A group of three hikers stand at the right side of the photograph looking across the boulders.

View of the West Branch of the Penobscot River showing large rocks and rapids in the foreground. Katahdin is faintly visible in the background.

View looking across water to Katahdin.

View of the West Branch of the Penobscot River showing trees and rocks lining the shore and Katahdin in the background.

This hand-colored lantern slide shows a view of Bangor taken from the Maine Central Railroad bridge across the Kenduskeag Stream at low tide shortly before the Great Fire of 1911 decimated the commercial and luxurious residential districts on 30 April. The slide features Broad Street on the left side and Exchange Street on the right; the Federal Building containing the Post Office and Customs House sits on the island in the middle. The tower of Union Station lies just inside the frame on the right, and on the left is one of the steeples of the Universalist Church and the dome of the First Baptist Church. Although strong gusts bore the fire across the Kenduskeag without causing much harm to Broad Street, Exchange Street and the surrounding areas suffered heavy damage--the Federal Building and the Universalist Church would be among the victims.

The Fire of 1911 showing the Bangor Public Library, Bangor Savings Bank and Taney Photograph shop on State and Hammond Streets. The ferocity of the blaze and the gusting winds are evident as the flames are leaping nearly across the trolly tracks. The $300,000 of books and the collections of the Bangor Historical Society on the top floor of the library building have been abandoned as the firefighters tried to staunch other flames; lumber has been pulled down and stacked on the right of the image, and only one spectator remains.

The Bangor Fire destroyed the Federal Building, which housed both the post office and customs building. The metal ruins on the lower right of the image are the remains of a laundry building. The slide is labeled "Ruins of the Post Office."The urgent need for a replacement in a city the size of Bangor lead Congressman Guernsey to ask for a Congressional appropriation of $500,000 during a special session to fund their reconstruction.

Ruins of the First Congregational Church after the Bangor Fire of April 1911. Located at 14 Broadway, it was organized in November 1811 and built in 1831 of brick with a granite basement. The architecture is attributed to Charles H. Pond, and it was the earliest building in Bangor to feature an applied Gothic style. The slide is labeled "Ruins Great Fire State + Oak Sts" and "Bangor: 1911 First Cong. Church."

The state of destruction in the wake of the Great Fire is clearly evident in this slide. The street and trolley tracks are blocked by rubble, hoses still snake along the streets, and the tangle of electrical lines is a reminder that the power went out early in the fire and was not restored for a few days. The papers set type by hand and published accounts of Bangorians going to the theatre along darkened streets to see shows performed by lamplight. The building on the right is the home of the First National Bank. Slide is labeled "Bangor Big Fire 1911" on side and "Exchange St. near State" on bottom.