Description: Six page list of houses designed by Fred L. Savage on Mount Desert Island. Shows the date they were built, house name, and for whom it was built.
Description: Handwritten excerpt from book, "The Saga of Cape Ann". Contains biographical information on Capt. John Somes, brother of Abraham Somes of Mount Desert, Maine.
Description: Two handwritten sheets with notes on the biography of Mary Ann Somes and Abraham Somes III. Also included is a description of the Somes coat of arms.
Description: Two typewritten pages by Irene Dow Purdie regarding her ancestors John Ware Dow and John Wesley Dow. Both Dows had a connection to Mount Desert Island.
Description: Handwritten pages (2) and handwritten or typewritten fragments (3) containing information related to the history of the founding of the MDI Historical Society. The purpose of the Society is described here.
Description: Leather Guest book from the Abraham Somes III house in Somesville, 1912-1937, includes photo of house and newsclippings, poetry and rememberances for Ruth Greenough (inn keeper) after her death.
Description: A list of projects completed by Robert W. Patterson prior to 1985. List compiled by Gladys O'Neil in 1985. Projects are from 1945 to 1985, listed in alphabetical order by account. List includes notation for projects located on Mount Desert Island. Nine pages. Location of original unknown.
Description: Menus from Elmwood Hotel, Waterville, Maine (Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Dinner, Initiation Banquet, Phi Delta Theta, 1911, 1912 Gray's Inn, Jackson, NH (Washington's Birthday), 1920 The Hamiltons, Bermuda The St. George, Bermuda Huntoon's Tavern, Brunswick, Maine Hotel Heselton, Skowhegan (First Maine Cavalry Fourth Annual Banquet, 1894) Hotel Heselton , Skowhegan, 1894 to commemorate the initial trip on the Skowhegan and Norridgewock Electric Road, Reunion and Banquet of U.K.E. A, 1895, and Somerset Association, First Maine Cavalry, 1894 Lawrence House, Augusta ( Farewell Lunch for 76th Maine Legislature, Xmas 1913) Imperial Club, 1895 Chef A. G. Cookson was donor's great great uncle. [show more]
Description: Alphabetical list of Mount Desert Island Odd Fellow and Rebekah officers from 1921-1988, compiled by Bill Skocpol based on Constance Robbins' collection of proceedings.