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18592Various Incomplete Newspaper Articles Pertaining to Mt. Desert Island History
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, Ladies Aid
  • Other, Northeast Harbor
  • Other, Somesville
  • Other, Southwest Harbor
  • Other, Tremont
  • Various Newspapers
Description:
Segments of articles relating to history of Mt. Desert Island. Titles: Visitor to boatyards in West Tremont and Bernard Previously archived as 012.FIC.043.5
18591Fins ol Record Book: Tells of the founding of Sewing Circle in Southwest Harbor 80 Years Ago
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, Ladies Aid
  • Other, Northeast Harbor
  • Other, Somesville
  • Other, Southwest Harbor
  • Other, Tremont
  • Various Newspapers
Description:
Segments of articles relating to history of Mt. Desert Island. Titles: Article about the founding of the Sewing Circle on Southwest harbor. Previously archived as 012.FIC.043.8
18590Southwest Harbor Revisited: Times Writer reports on 1922 Fire
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Business districts
  • Other, Fernald's Point
  • Other, Sewing Circle
  • Other, Southwest Harbor
  • Various Newspapers
Description:
Articles from various newspapers pertaining to the history of Southwest Harbor. Southwest Harbor Revisited: Times Writer Reports on 1922 Fire, authored by LaRue Spiker Previously archived as 012.FIC.043.8
18492Bar Harbor and Acadian National Park Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Albertype Photographic Reproductions
Description:
Bound picturebook of photographs from Bar Harbor and Acadia Park. Date of publication unkown. One image labeled "Flying Squadron Mountain" dating the source to between 1929 and the 1940s.
2912Linda Smith Foote mementoes
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Pretty Marsh
  • Other, Weddings
Description:
Newspaper notes about her wedding; calling card; wedding invitation to her; 1882 Valentine.
2911Articles and copies of articles related to Pretty Marsh
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Pretty Marsh
  • Other, Schooner Head
  • Other, Ship Harbor
Description:
Article about Mrs. Alice Gray, Mrs. Linda Foote, Allen Smith. "Pretty Marsh Was Once Populous Farming and Fishing Community," Bar Harbor Times, May 9, 1963. (3 copies) "Pretty Marsh is a few miles and a world away from the rest of MDI," Community Observer, Sept. 4, 1974 "Under Uncle Dick Hill, " Bar Harbor Times, July 12, 1979 "Acadia: Land and Sea Vie in Eternal Struggle," Philadelphia Inquirer, May 11, 1965 (2 copies) Christening of "Acadian" by Lisa MacQuinn, Bar Harbor Times, April 16, 1970 Articles from Bar Harbor Times, April 9, 1970 Letter to editor, Bar Harbor Times, from Helen Cosgrove-Carignan, Sept. 23, 1976 "Legend of Schooner Head," Bar Harbor Times, Aug. 27, 1981 "Wreck of the Grand Design," Bar Harbor Times, April 16, 1987 Obituary, David Eliot McGiffert, Bar Harbor Times, Oct. 20, 2005 [show more]
3759Exhibit Files: 1997, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006
  • Publication, Catalog
Description:
1997: Charles W. Eliot and John Gilley: Good Hope for Our Country. Plan of exhibit, list of artifacts & photographs, bibliography, "John Gilley and Charles W. Eliot: Good Hope for Our Country," by Jaylene B. Roths (ms.), "The Gilley Family of Mt. Desert," by William Otis Sawtelle, (ms), and other notes. 1997: From Boarding House to Grand Hotel: The Origins of Tourism on Mount Desert Island. Background notes for exhibit, list of photographs and other items. 2000: Victorian Dining on Mount Desert Island. Photographs of exhibit; artifact list; background notes. Many items loaned for exhibit; excerpts from rules of dining, how to set tables, cookbooks, etc. 2001: Stitch in Time," at Somesville Museum: Weaving, Woolen Mill, Spinning, Sewing, Quilting, 2002: "I Came to this Place: The Story of the Village of Somesville." A new permanent exhibit at the Somesville Museum. 2004: Somesville Museum. Many of same objects and info. as in 2002 exhibit, above. 2005: Somesville Museum, "Arrival of Rusticators in 1855, Their Adventures, and Stories of the Local Residents They Met." Tracy Party, poem by Theodore Winthrop. 2006: Handicrafts Exhibit, notes from Smallidge. Also notes about Winter Industries, Getting By in Winter or Hard Times, What's Here to do After Summer People go home? [show more]
2959Odd Fellows Cadillac Mountain Memorial Services
  • Publication, Literary, Speech, Sermon
Description:
Xerox compilation of Services
18373Oral history interview of Louise S. Libby
  • Publication, Literary, Reminiscence
Description:
First tape of interview of Louise Libby by Leza Colquhoun
18368Gary Galyean's Golf Letter
  • Publication, Newsletter
Description:
Publication called Gary Galyean's Golf Letter, subtitled The Inside Report on World Golf, Number 53, August 1994. Contains a description and history of the Northeast Harbor Golf Club and infromation on the Number 16, 17, 18 holes. Publication called Gary Galyean's Golf Letter, subtitled The Inside Report on World Golf, Listing of publications available through them on golf courses around the counrty and world NE Harbor Golf Club being one of those publications which can be ordered. [show more]
17658Catalogue for George Daniell exhibit in 1991
  • Publication, Catalog
  • Other, Photography
Description:
Catalogue (1991) for exhibit of George Daniell's photographs in The George Daniell Gallery in Trenton, with 1991 introduction by Carl Little. Includes "chronology" of Daniell's career, exhibitions and collections holding his photographs. Photographs from the 1930s to the 1970s are included in the catalogue.
17577Catalogue , The Mount Desert Nurseries
  • Publication, Catalog
Description:
Catalogue of George B. Dorr's Mount Desert Nurseries. Clarence E. Dow is listed as manager of the nurseries. Dorr is listed as president of the company. Catalogue includes tree, shrubs, vines, hardy herbaceous perennials, bedding plants, and roses. Offices and greenhouses of the nurseries: Lower Main Street, Bar Harbor. Although there is no date on the catalogue, the introduction mentions that the nurseries "were founded thirty years ago in recognition of the remarkable horticultural qualities Mount Desert Island had disclosed in its earliest pleasure garden, established fifteen years before and linked with the first development of summer residence upon the Island." [show more]
17523Oral history interview of Louise Sawtelle Libby
  • Publication, Literary, Reminiscence
Description:
Second tape in interview of Louise Libby by Leza Colquhoun.
17503The Free Press
  • Publication, Book
17502The Causeway Club
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Clubs
  • Other, History
  • Unpublished
17482My Trip Abroad
  • Publication, Book, Journal, Diary
  • Other, Tourism
  • Other, Transportation - land
  • Other, Transportation - water
Description:
leather bound travel log dated June 16th - August 2nd 1937includes color plates of ocean liner flags, itinerary, daily log, 3 post cards which have been stored with photographs in postcard album
17476Downeast Ancestry Volume IV, V, VI printed:1980-83
  • Publication, Book, Journal
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, History - Maine
  • People
Description:
Blue Binder:Copies of Downeast Ancestry Vol. IV numbers 1-6 Volume V Numbers 1-6 Volume VI Numbers 1-6
17475Downeast Ancestry Volume I, II, III printed:1977-1982
  • Publication, Book, Journal
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, History - Maine
  • People
Description:
Blue Binder:Copies of Downeast Ancestry Vol. I numbers 1-6 Volume II Number 6 Volume III Numbers 1, 2 and 4-6
17474Mount Desert Island Historical Society Collections Materials
  • Publication, Catalog
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • Other, Museums
Description:
Artifact Adoption Catalog 1995 from MDI Historical Society through the years
17460The Past in Bits and Pieces
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Other, Historic Preservation
Description:
An article written by Andrew Weegar of the Maine Times about the brothers, Galen and Ted Turner of Swan’s Island who have decided to protect the isoand’s maritime history by collecting and saving everything they can get their hands on. They are having difficulty finding funding and have been doing it on their own.
17424Passing of the Back House
  • Publication, Literary, Poem
  • Other, Poetry
Description:
The Passing of the Back House. Supposedly written by James Whitcomb Riley. 1 page. Copy of item # 1.
17423Passing of the Back House
  • Publication, Literary, Poem
  • Other, Poetry
Description:
The Passing of the Back House. Supposedly written by James Whitcomb Riley. 1 page.
17339Rain
  • Publication, Literary, Poem
  • Other, Poetry
Description:
Rain by LaRue Spiker.
1732884th Annual Report of the Department of Education, Massachusetts, 1920-21.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Massachusetts
  • Wright and Potter Printing Co. 1920-21
Description:
Deaccessioned 9/05
17320The Cosmopolitan Art Journal Vol I #4
  • Publication, Book
  • Object, Art
  • June 1857