Description: Map of Northeast Harbor compiled in 1974 showing the location of homes and businesses. This is a hand drawn map with a notation that reads: "locations estimated from private memoirs."
Description: Computer family trees of: William Roberts Horace Roberts Enoch Hopkins and Lucetta Savage Peter Savage and Hannah Rich John Savage These were requested by Luther Craig Phillips in 1997.
Description: An audio recording of the music of Lew Smallidge's orchestra. This is not an interview and includes only orchestral music. See also cassette tape 024.FIC.15
Description: Record with seascape 1970 Mount Desert Island High School Symphonic Band and Trojanaires George Himes, Conductor On back it says the cost is $13.99
Description: Photocopied pages from book, The Babson Genealogy, 1637-1977, Descendants of Isabel Babson who arrived at Salem, Massachusetts in 1637. Eaton Press, Watertown, Massachusetts, 1978.
Description: Portion of Maine Historical Society Prize Essay, 1976, pertaining to 1770 incident between crew member of a Royal Navy ship and a local Bunker young woman.
Description: Letter excerpt details descendants of Samuel Richardson and Betty Giles and Samuel's second wife Lousana Garland. Samuel lived in Bridgeton, ME, and Aurora, Me.
Description: Photocopy, single page, labeled as "Sheet 2", of genealogical chart beginning in 1673 with Timothy Somes through to 18th C. generation including Abraham Somes, first settler of Mount Desert Island.
Description: Photocopy of letter correcting facts on a previously written article on the subject of the history of Somesville, Maine. The letter includes biographical information about Somesville settler, Abraham Somes as well as Virginia Somes Sanderson's line of descent.
Description: Photocopy of handwritten list of Somes family members whose deaths are recorded in the Brookside Cemetery, Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine as of July 1971.
Description: Photocopy of article in "American Genealogist", Vol.53, No.1, January, 1977. Article is on Morris Somes who emigrated from England to settle in Gloucester, Mass.
Description: Handwritten letter from Burley Black to Dr. Sanderson concerning the relationship of Francis Orlando Black to the Somes family of Mount Desert Island.
Description: Photocopy of Bar Harbor Times article describing aspects of Somesville history and biography of Chauncey Somes. Contains photograph of Chauncey Somes, early Somesville buildings including the wool carding mill and the library.
Description: Handwritten notes of Virginia Somes Sanderson pertaining to the handling of her proposed donation of the Somes house to the Mount Desert Island Historical Society.
Description: Letter from Society secretary, Winfield Sprague, notifying Thalia Nutting of appointment as a charter member of the MDI HIstorical Society.
Description: Letter from MDI Historical Society secretary, Winfield Sprague, to Helen Fernald notifying her of her appointment as a charter member of the Society.
Description: Letter from the MDI Historical Society secretary, Winfield Sprague, to Ada Leland, notifying her of her appointment as a charter member of the Society.
Description: Letter from Nelson Leland to Betsy Alexander discussing problems within the MDI Historical Society in relation to the Society Newsletter. Four typewritten pages.
Description: Letter from Mrs. Alexander to Sanderson tendering her resignation from the MDI Historical Society Newsletter Committee and explaining her discontent with the operation of this committee.
Description: Photocopy of two page handwritten letter from Sanderson to Betsy Alexander. Sanderson accepts Alexander's resignation from the MDI Historical Society Newsletter Committee and discusses Mrs. Alexander's grievances with the committee.
Description: Letter to Executive Director of Nature Conservancy re a bequest of land where LaRue Spiker lives on Long Pond to Nature Conservancy for its use to sell after death of a friend who shall hold title during the friend's lifetime. Describes property. Letter from her lawyers explaining what Douglas Chapman did to revise the will. Advises setting up a trust. The will is not attached to this letter. Previously archived as object id 012.Fic.042.12, **1348, **1349 [show more]