Description: Proposed Addition, Kebo Valley Club (floor plan), Comm No. 140, Sheet No. 1 (One of three copies) See also .138 and .146, Colored pencil notes to builders.
Description: Proposed Addition, Kebo Valley Club (floor plan), Comm No. 140, Sheet No. 1 (One of three copies) See also .145 and .146 Also included in this entry are three ink on linen drwings: Part Elevations and section, one drawing " Sheet 2 with East, West, North and South elevations, and Sheet 1 of foundation and floor plans.
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
Description: 1. Plan showing property at Pretty Marsh Mount Desert, Maine for Edna L. Hysom (1976) 2. Mount Desert and Adjacent Islands 3. Hand-drawn on tissue paper, copied from Salem Town Map of 1808 4. Area from Deep Cove to West Pt.; shows coastline, roads, and homes. 5. Line Agreement Josephine Doe & Edna Hysom (1983) 6. Plats of Smallidge, Palmer, Hysom, Smith, Doe. 7. Area from High Head to Pretty Marsh Harbor, including Mill Cove, Squid Cove, Squid I. (1875) [show more]
Description: Gold wire-framed glasses in (slightly mildewed) case marked Brown Optical Co., 1101 5th St., San Diego, California. Includes pink cleaning cloth. Found in old general store building in Seal Harbor.
Description: Notes (5 versions)about the club, giving names of members, items sewed, plans to raise money to buy hearse, organ, build sidewalk, fence around Brookside Cemetery. Library, church parish house, Somesville School House also mentioned.
Description: Thaddeus Shepley Somes and Pearl. Thaddeus on left wears hair combed down and parted on one side. Dark suit, one button done, white shirt and large silk bow tie. Hands folded in lap. Perarl wears short hair parted on one side and combed to the other. Wears black coat buttoned down front with round white collar laying flat on shoulders. Some kind of border on image, but note that original was tintype.
Description: Boy and girl. Boy, on left, wears hair parted on one side and combed to the other. Dark coat buttons down front with round white collar which lays flat on shoulders. Arms folded in front. Girl on right wears hair parted in the midlle and pulled back. Striped dress with dark shawl and white collar. Hands folded on lap. Marked on back, “Emma Frances and [illegible?].
Description: Adeline Freeman Somes. Hair parted in middle and pulled back tighly. Dark dress with gathers at waist making bodice pucker. Small white collar with brooch at neck. Hands folded on lap. Marked on back, “Adeline Freeman Somes mother of Thaddeus, Emma Francis, [Lot?] and Pearl Somes; wife of Abraham III Somes, born in Pretty Marsh.”
Description: Scrapbook filled with miscellaneous newsclippings related to Mount Desert Island, the surrounding area, items of cultural interest, WWII and the Smith, Somes and Stanley families.
Description: Diary and other narrative material written by Marian Lawrence Peabody. Includes description of summer life on MDI, social life in Boston, wartime experiences and events, travels to California, Paris and other locations, and the Claremont Hotel. Black binder has been included in the collection. There is substantial duplication between the material in folders and in the black binder (which was marked "May to Dec 1917"). Much of the material was incorporated in the book "To be Young was Very Heaven," with Mrs. Harold Peabody listed as the author. Also included are letters from Craig Wylie of Houghton Mifflin and Anne Ford about difficulty finding copies of the book in stores. THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GIVEN ONLY THE ACCESSION NUMBER, AS OF DECEMBER 12, 2007. Individual items have not been numbered or catalogued. [show more]
Description: All by Adelma Somes Joy: “Somes Sound must have been one beautiful place." Recalls arrival of Abraham Somes, the oak trees on oak hill, Ebenezer Sutton, and Denning’s Pond. "Years ago when we had the telegraph..." Recalls advances in technology, balloons, and flight. Northeast Harbor Women's Literary Club talk , Jan. 30, 1920. Plans to travel abroad, give clothing to naked Africans, open beauty parlor. "That Old Reed House." Mrs. Reed was her grandfather's sister; house near Jim's Cove. "My first recollections of life..." Recalls her grandparents' house in 1838. Also separate essay, "Grandfather's House." Reminiscences of Somesville #6. Recalls naming of Somesville, old roads, school house, industry, and tanning pits. Two Letters from Adelma Somes Joy to Harriet Somes Sanderson, Aug. 10, 1929. recalls Col. Black House in Ellsworth, Episcopal Church at Seal Cove, Bp. Manning, church sales, other historical notes. "Memories" of her father. History of Somes and Richardson families. [show more]
Description: Maps of: 1. Somes Harbor Historic District, no date. 2. Plats around Denning Pond (Echo Lake) and Mountain (Robinson) showing ownership by Daniel Somes, Samuel Reed, John Galley, Davis Wasgatt, no date. 3. Francis Grindle to MDI Historical Society (exchange), no date. 4. Oak Hill Rd. and land of Maurice Somes, Jennie Somes; land conveyed to Library Society, and more, no date. 5. Somes Pond showing trails for Naturalists' lectures on Somes-Meynell Wildlife Sanctuary, by Janet Christrup, no date. 6. Notes from Nation Register of London, Archives, on Bernard Maps, no date. 7. Two maps of Somesville and surrounding area, no date. Photographed by Hylander. 8. Photocopied and pieced together map of Mound Desart [sic] Island, no date [show more]
Description: Map of Mount Desert Island Your Guide to Mt. Desert Island and to pleasant dining at the Seawall Dining Room includes map and advertisement for Seawall on front and Things to Do: Scenic and points of interest on back, black and white, no date, but open year -round.