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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
5158The Parsonage
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
Description:
The Parsonage. End of Mt. Desert House, Nathan Salisbury House, Lewis Somes House.
5234Somes House, Christmas card
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
Description:
Card reads Somes House-Abt.1880-1961. Season’s Greetings Hollis and Julia Smith
5235Mount Desert Post Office
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
Description:
Mount Desert Post office in snow. Card reads: Merry Christmas Happy New Year. Marked on the back of the photograph: "It is good to know that we will see you soon."
5236Historic Somesville Holiday Card
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
Description:
Photo of Mill pond and Heath Millinary Shop. Above photo are the words Season’s Greetings. Small print at bottom of photo reads: Street View, Somesville, ME, 21. Victor and Ruby written on back in ink.
17666Season’s Greetings
  • Object, Writing, Postcard
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, History - Somesville
Description:
photo greeting card of home in snow with hand-written greeting on back: Good cheer for the holidays. May the blessing of peace be with us before another Christmas season. All good wishes from N.C. Thornton
17148The Cracker Barrel
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Stores & shops
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Funk and Wagnalls
  • 1967
Description:
Illustrations and anecdotes dedicated to the general store
17144American Yesterday
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Tools & Implements
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Wilfred Funk
  • 1956 .
Description:
Occupations of early America
17143American Barns and Covered Bridges
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Barns
  • Other, Bridges
  • Other, Buildings
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Wilfred Funk
  • Inc., 1954
17142Our Vanishing Landscape
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Landscapes
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Wilfred Funk
  • 1955
Description:
Illustrations of disappearing structures and man-made landscaping
17118Early Schools
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Schools
  • Kalman, Bobbie
  • Crabtree Pub. Co.
  • 1982
17117Early Schools
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Schools
  • Kalman, Bobbie
  • Crabtree Pub. Co.
  • 1982
17110Early American Community Structures
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Buildings
  • Mullins, Lisa, ed.
  • The National Historical Society
  • 1987
14308Section of blue print showing Pretty Marsh on MDI. Handwritten notes related to plot sales.
  • Map
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Geography
  • Other, History - Pretty Marsh
  • n.d.
Description:
Section of a blue print showing Pretty Marsh on MDI. Handwritten notes related to plot sales. Marked "Property Map Town of Mount Desert Hancock County Main prepared by James W. Sewall." Shows several plots on Indian Point Road and has handwritten numbers and the names Stephen Dexter Smith to Ansel L. Manchester and Richard Smith to Stephen Dexter Smith 1871. Scale: 1 inch=500 feet
12933Martha Stewart Living
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, History - Seal Harbor
  • Other, Skylands
  • 2000
Description:
Magazine issue with article dedicated to Skylands home in Seal Harbor Maine, formerly Ford home built in 1939, includes photographs. September 2000 page 256
12924A Building History of Northern New England
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, New England
  • Garvin, James L.
  • University Press of New England
  • 2001
Description:
Guide to understanding old buildings, written especially for home-owners in northern New England. Discusses evolution of building technology from log buildings through framed houses, evolution of style, and evolution of key features.
12901The Roofing Handbook for Historic Buildings
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Roofs
  • Slaton, Deborah and Charles E. Fisher III
  • Historic Preservation Education Foundation and the National Park Service
  • 1999
Description:
Series of articles by various people in chapters about Guidelines and References, History and Technology, Planning and Specifications, and Roofing Materials
12893An Age of Barns
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Barns
  • Other, Buildings
  • Sloan, Eric
  • Funk & Wagnalls
  • 1976
12891On the Art of Teaching
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Schools
  • Mann, Horace
  • Applewood Books
  • 1989
Description:
A facsimile of the classic 184o book which described the qualifications for those who teach.
12890Early American School Books
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Schools
  • Chandler Press
  • 1988
Description:
Contains selected pages from schoolbooks from 1785 to 1880. Examples are from spelling and geography books, among others.
12878The Interiors Handbook for Historic Buildings
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Interior design
  • Other, Preservation
  • Fisher, Charles E. III, Michael Auer, Anne Grimmer, eds.
  • Historic Preservation Education Foundation
  • 1988
11453Schooner "Kate Pray"
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Ships
Description:
Two-masted schooner in back of Fernald’s store (purchased in 1887 from A.J. Whiting’s; later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore, still later, an art gallery). Houses on Main street from left to right, Abraham Somes III house; John Somes house, known as “Old Homestead”; Thaddeus Somes Store; in front of store, Blacksmith’s shop; Fernald’s Store; Mount Desert Tavern. To right of schooner two black horses harnessed to wagon next to wood pile. Two men on stern of schooner. One man on deck between masts. [show more]
11450Main Street, Somesville, ME
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
Description:
Marked in lower left corner, “Main Street Somesville, ME". On right Fernald’s store presently Port-In-A-Storm, later Frenchman's Bay Gallery, later Gallery at Somes Sound (2015) with first story covered porch facing road and second story porch on south side of building. On left (across the road) Mt. Desert House and Nathan Salisbury House. On far left unidentified house. No house exists on this lot today. Large trees on each side of road. Telephone poles and wooden sidewalk on left side. View looking north. [show more]
11316Newsclipping: Centruy Old Somesville Building, Former Post Office, to be Razed
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • Other, Postal Service
Description:
Newsclipping: “Century Old Somesville Building, Former Post Office, to be Razed”. Previously accessioned as **0635, also as Object Id 011.FIC.67.1
11305Hancock House Ellsworth
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Buildings
Description:
Newsclipping: photograph of Hancock House on Main Street in Ellsworth. Previously accessioned as **0649, Object Id 011.FIC.71.5
11276Davis Wasgatt House and Richardson Homestead Photograph
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, History - Beech Hill
Description:
Newsclipping: “Davis Wasgatt House and Richardson Homestead on Beech Hill” photograph. Previously accessioned as **0692, Object Id 011.FIC.76.1