Description: Describes history of Seaside Inn and of the land, originally owned by "Bingham heirs" or John Bracy. Examples of early advertisement for the inn, menus, document showing transfer of land to James Clements by the Barings of London. Early photographs; lists of names of those who worked there; written memories. Seaside Inn opened in 1869 and was demolished in 1964.
Description: History of the planning, design and construction of the bridges and roads of Acadia National Park. Describes the roles of key supporters such as Mrs. Charles Homans, John Steward Kennedy, George Dorr, George Stebbins, and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and of builders and managers of the projects such as Byron Candage and Charles Simpson. Many photographs and drawings of the bridges.
Description: This is a revision of the fish and game laws for the state of Maine. It includes such topics as the prohibition against use of dynamite, closing time for hunting or fishing designated species, and the like.
Description: A work of fiction Dedicated to the archduchess Sophia of Austria, Officers and Seamen of the Austrian Navy, and the Citizens of Trieste Inscribed L.F. Somes, Mount Desert, Maine, 1875
Description: "...in which mental arithmetic is combined with the use of the slate; containing a complete system for all practical purposes; being in dollars and cents, stereotype edition, revised and enlarged, with exercises for the slate, in which as added a practical system of book-keeping." Exercises cover compound numbers, fractions, and decimals.
Description: Emphasizes words in common use that are difficult to spell. Label pasted in front shows that the book is the "property of the Town of Mt. Desert" No. 97 and gives the rules, such as inspection by the teacher very two weeks, students must pay for "material injury" to the book.
Description: This is an abridged version of the Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language. Inscribed Meredith E. Bordeaux, Xmas 1924
Description: Per title page: A Romance after the German of F. LeWald. Label inside front cover: Regulations of Sound Public Library, Mount Deseret Island, Maine
Description: Designed for schools that don't have time for the full course (per introduction); principles are illustrated; problems given for practice. Inscribed Rubie Higgins; Property of the Townof Mt. Desert label pasted inside front cover.
Description: Names and comments by visitors to the Somesville Museum, 2014-2015. Guest book used for the duration of the "Portrait of an Island" Exhbition; the story of Art and Nan Kellam and their life on Placentia Island. Black "perfect" binding.