Description: Black and white "Christmas Greeting" photo postcard showing canoers on Somesville Mill Pond with Somesville Library in background. Back of card has written, "Bob & Norma."
Description: Letter Amasa Higgins (could also be Ana Higgins) Deer Isle from Richard Warren, Gouldsboro, Deer Isle re: purchase of mill logs and shingle wood.
Description: Paul Stubing indicated that this was a picture of the Stanley Fisheries and that the double-ender was "always" in the same point. The caption on the back reads, "Foggy Morning at Southwest Harbor, Maine - August 1941...Lighthouse Tender ILEX - Schooner Rebecca R. Douglass." There is a three-masted schooner in the center background and a vessel which looks like a freighter on the top left. There are two gulls resting on pilings in the foreground. [show more]
Description: Article announcing the opening of the Penobscot Indian Craft Shop in Bar Harbor. The shop is for the purpose of selling crafts of Maine Penobscot Indians as well Western American Indian tribes. Previously archived as 012.FIC.040.4
Description: Unknown man with no legs (only feet) standing on covered table or stool. Curly hair with receding hairline. Wears dark suit with velvet collar, white shirt, black silk tie. Child in center, age 5-9, blond curly hair parted on side. Wears dark sailor type top, buttons down center with bow tie, knee pants and dark boots. Unknown woman (mother?) sits to right. Hair worn close to head, tight curls flat on forhead. Wears small earings. Dark dress with stripe pattern forming squares. Ruffles above skirt hem. Vertical ruffles down front of skirt. Same trim on cuffs. Large buttons down center of bodice. Wide white collar nearly reaching shoulders lays flat. Marked on back, “Eli Bowen, Wife and Child. A. Newman Photographer. Ground floor Skylight 228 North Ninth Street, Philadelphia. [show more]
Description: Carte de visite of a man with dark hair parted on right, swept over (and slightly up) on right side. Has very thick dark mustache. Wears dark suit, dark bow tie, white shirt. Jacket unbuttoned after first button, distinctive horseshoe shaped pin on left lapel.
Description: 8 X 10 black and white photograph of several newly hatched birds in straw nest in the side of the cliff. Black birds one with mouth opened in center. Paper attatched to the back, “ This Nestful, quite full in fact, of young ravens was photographed on the island. Ravens are year round residents here. Photo courtesy Acadia National Park.
Description: Black Beaver. The back of the photograph is marked: "The beaver is the largest of American rodents. Almost exterminated by the turn of the century, they have now been re-established in the wilder sections of the country. There are several sub-species. This one Castor canadensis canadensis." (Photo Courtesy of Acadia National Park)
Description: Color slide of an aerial view of a pile of trash at the edge of a forest. A river runs to the left of the frame and pine trees on the right of the frame. Notes on slide read: Aerial. Dol. Dump, #120 Color slides which are part of an exhibit. The slides are numbered were not stored in the box in sequential order. The slides are left in the order they appear in the box. From box labeled: Pant Ce Exhibit Birds
Description: Color slide of a bald eagle hunched forward on a tree branch with it's beak open. Notes on slide read: Bald Eagle, #99 Color slides which are part of an exhibit. The slides are numbered were not stored in the box in sequential order. The slides are left in the order they appear in the box. From box labeled: Pant Ce Exhibit Birds
Description: Color slide of a marsh hawk sitting on a ground nest next to vegitation. Notes on slide read: Marsh Hawk, #97 Color slides which are part of an exhibit. The slides are numbered were not stored in the box in sequential order. The slides are left in the order they appear in the box. From box labeled: Pant Ce Exhibit Birds
Description: Color slide of a great horned owl sitting on a tree branch. Notes on slide read: Owl, #96 Color slides which are part of an exhibit. The slides are numbered were not stored in the box in sequential order. The slides are left in the order they appear in the box. From box labeled: Pant Ce Exhibit Birds
Description: Color slide of three song sparrows. Two are sitting on a branch looking to the left and one bird is comming in for a landing on the branch. Notes on slide read: Song Sparrows, #69 Color slides which are part of an exhibit. The slides are numbered were not stored in the box in sequential order. The slides are left in the order they appear in the box. From box labeled: Pant Ce Exhibit Birds
Description: Color slide of a muskrat swimming in a body of water. The slide is out of focus. Notes on slide read: Muskrat, #77 Color slides which are part of an exhibit. The slides are numbered were not stored in the box in sequential order. The slides are left in the order they appear in the box. From box labeled: Pant Ce Exhibit Birds
Description: A film on DVD about Wendell Gilley, master carver from Southwest Harbor. Title: Gilley: Portrait of a Bird Carver. A documentary story filmed during the construction of the museum built in his honor in 1981. Film by Richard W. Adams, with a 2004 update on the 25th anniversary of the Museum and the centennial of the birth of Wendell Gilley. Running time of 25 minutes.
Description: Portrait of young woman, taken in profile, head slightly bowed. Wears dark wavy hair twisted and pinned back. Also wears thin silver-framed glasses, white lace collar over dark top. Inscription at bottom of case reads, “With deep affection for one of the dearest girls that I have ever known.”