Catch us at Winterfest 2024!

Meg from Embark Maine Tours has put together a super fun photo hunt downtown for Winterfest 2024! Find the partially obscured historic images in store fronts and scan the QR code to see the full image.

Bath Historical Society, Maine Maritime Museum and Patten Free Library’s History Room have all put forth our most the winter images from our collections. Make sure to find all of the History Room’s images in Main Street Bath’s Winterfest 2024 Historic Photo Hunt! 

Hattie/Henrietta C. Ledyard to brother James Pitt Ledyard, dated Jan 24, 1886, reporting on their brother’s bobsled accident. (Henry Baecker collection, MAINE MC 020)

Sepia-toned, black-and-white photograph of Front Street in Bath, Maine with a trolley snowplow clearing the tracks near the corner of Front and Centre Streets. Circa 1922. (2010.1.10.1)

A cyanotype, labeled “Marshall Street at the corner of High Street, showing ice house a[t] Goddard’s Pond” (Priscilla Cornish collection, 2010.6.2.1)

Postcard featuring a black-and-white photograph of “Winter Scene-Bath, Maine – Jan. 1944,” with a photo by “Douglas” that looks north on Front Street, north of the intersection with Centre Street. Herbert Douglas, photographer. (Oscar Marsh postcard collection, 2010.8.2.57)

Winter Carnival, 1935. (Patten Free Library photograph collection, PC 65.7.25)

Building the Carlton Bridge featuring snow on the bridge span, 1927. (Roberta Doyle collection, PC 10.41)

Pony leading young man in front of the Baptist Church. (Elizabeth Houghton, PC 14.14)

Three young women standing on snow covered sidewalk posing for camera. Davenport Memorial City Hall in far background. (Buffkin collection, PC 16.35)

Children with sleds in the snow. (Patten Free Library photograph collection, PC 65.7.6)