A sampling from the
Bath Historical Society collections
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Governor Ralph Brewster prepares to cut the ribbon with a crowd of onlookers at a 1927 ceremony to open the Carlton Bridge. BHS2010.7
Patten Free Library postcard, with original Victorian-era gazebo, at right. BHS2015.6b
Weeks Street Grammar School, Mrs Hunt's class, undated. BHS2020.28
Men (and dog and horse) posing in front of the American House hotel, on the SW corner of Water and Elm Streets. BHS2003.4.5
Sailors marching, Washington Street. BHS2020.10
Postcard showing the city of Bath, looking west from the Bath Iron Works, c. 1906. BHS2020.25
A pin with a depiction of the U.S.S. Constitution, and commemorating its 1931 visit to Bath. A small U.S. flag is attached. BHS2010.17.10
Bath businessmen with Miss Maine 1957, Carol Ann Bartels, who was from Bath. BHS99.3.2
West end of the Carlton Bridge; street and sidewalk unfinished; bridge gate is in its raised position. BHS2006.17.1
Theodore Burns, City Messenger, standing by the Paul Revere Bell atop Bath City Hall. The Bath Daily Times of June 1957 reported that Burns had painted the bell tower, sprucing it up for summer visitors. BHS2010.11.6
Installation of bronze sculpture "Spirit of the Sea" in City Park in 1962. Artist William Zorach, at right. BHS8.24 ?
Official Score Card, Grand Firemen's Muster, Bath, Maine, Wednesday, July 4, 1928. BHS2009.10
Looking east on Broad Street after the blizzard of 1952. BHS2020.31
Montsweag Food Products, Inc. label for cut stringless beans. BHS2020.18
The Senator Baxter handtub, 1920. Handtub crews competed annually in Fireman's Musters, each aiming to shoot a stream of water the farthest. The tradition continues each July 4th today! BHS2024.1.2
Kennebec Wharf & Coal Company, 1924. BHS2024.2
The Carlton Bridge, construction in progress, with the Ferdinando Gorges sidewheel ferry in the foreground. BHS2019.9.1