Description: Farm Ledger, Bartlett's Island Farm (approx. 1910-1933). Records kept by Augustus P. Loring. Includes animals, supplies, employees, work undertaken, crop yields and disappointments, thefts, etc, Leather bound, outside says Bartlett's island
Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book
Subject:
Other, Ledgers
Collection:
Vaughan-Loring Bartlett's Island Collection
Description: Account Book Kept by May (Ellen) Loring Vaughan on Bartlett's Island (1915-1921) Cost of travel Hallowell to Boston 8.60, Bar Harbor, 15.00 Pay for washerwoman, $3,00, 1.50 Groceries list
Description: Manuscript written by Doris Grant, possibly in the 1980s, about the store and parties held there, musicals and contests, the "Medicine Show", Professor Ness and his trained animal show, Italian quarrymen, boarding house for workers, quarry workers' union, maids who were ferried from Northeast Harbor for parties in the old Standard Hall.
Description: Manuscript written by Doris Grant, possibly in the 1980s, about Ed Pete Richardson of Hall Quarry. Mentions entertainment in A.J. Whiting's Hall, including "Nick o' the Woods" ; picking up mail in Somesville and delivering it to C.J. Hall's store to be picked up; sharpening tools for the granite cutters; blueberry picking and sales, bears in Hall Quarry, the arrival of "Hell Wagons" (automobiles) on the island. [show more]
Description: Memories of the chapel at Hall Quarry, written by Doris Grant, possibly in the 1980s: 2 handwritten versions (They have not been compared to see if they are identical. Mentions its use as a school and community center as well as a religious building. References to Horace Leavitt, minister; Mandy Perkins, Sunday school superintendent, and Bill Grant, organist. Marked as copies a (5 pages) and b(4 pages).
Description: Manuscript written by Doris Grant , possibly in the 1980s, with memories of Somes Sound and the vessels and captains who sailed up the Sound, mainly to Hall Quarry. Stories of crossing the ice on Somes Sound in the winter and shipwrecks. Handwritten copy (a) and typewritten copy (b). Scene in movie the Modern Thelma filmed in Somes Sound The two copies have not been compared to determine if they are the same. As of 2018, only type written copy [show more]
Description: Gift of Northeast Harbor Library (duplicates) Known as the Red Book, Directory and Hand Book of Northeast Harbor, Seal Harbor, Mount Desert and Adjacent Islands
Description: 1935 is missing. Gift of Northeast Harbor Library 1930 to 1936 Directory and Hand Book, known as Red Books 1936 is missing its cover. 1st page is a Greeting in poem form Each year has a greeting by a different writer
Description: Gift of Northeast Harbor Library. 1944, 53,57,59 known as Red Book, Directory and Hand Book 1944 book is dogeared Contains a lot of advertising as well as names addresses of summer cottagers along with their permanent address In NY, IL, etc Elmer Cousins name on front of 1953 and 1959 booklets
Description: Table folds out (hinges missing) and is supported by legs which turns. Four simply carved legs. Space where drawer should be is missing. Some wooden pegs still intact. Reinforced with nails. Dovetail joints. Donor info - this table from log house of Abraham Somes, first settler of Mt. Desert Island. Originally made without nails but with wooden pegs.
Description: 1795, 1809,1813,1818-1822,1827,1829,1830,1837,1838,1841,1845 (3 copies),1847,1848, 1850-53 Object Id Number is on the first page of each almanac since the covers are falling off All were "adopted by David Reiber" per 1999 catalog records which this new single record replaced.
Description: From Somes Cove looking towards Somesville and Main Street. To the left, wreck of Schooner Catherine, no masts. Behind Catherine to the left, Fernald’s store (aka A.J. Whiting’s Store) then Port-in-a-Storm bookstore, then The Gallery at Somes Sound (2013-15) . To the right of Fernald’s Store, historic Nathan Salisbury House, once owned by Stan and Binnie MacDonald. To the right Somes House Inn and Cottages. Marked on bottom, “Somes House and Cottages, Somesville, ME. 2K.” [show more]
Description: Steamship Mount Desert, small paddlewheeler. One man on top deck near paddle wheel, two others on bow, second deck. Lettering on port side of bow reads MOUNT DESERT/ BOSTON & BANGOR S.S.CO. No date.
Description: Two-masted schooner in back of Fernald’s store (purchased in 1887 from A.J. Whiting’s; later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore, still later, an art gallery). Houses on Main street from left to right, Abraham Somes III house; John Somes house, known as “Old Homestead”; Thaddeus Somes Store; in front of store, Blacksmith’s shop; Fernald’s Store; Mount Desert Tavern. To right of schooner two black horses harnessed to wagon next to wood pile. Two men on stern of schooner. One man on deck between masts. [show more]
Description: View of lumber mill from Main Street looking across Somes Cove. Logs piled on far side of lumber mill against side of building. Two masted schooner at wharf. Tree on left bank.
Description: Marked in lower left corner, “Main Street Somesville, ME". On right Fernald’s store presently Port-In-A-Storm, later Frenchman's Bay Gallery, later Gallery at Somes Sound (2015) with first story covered porch facing road and second story porch on south side of building. On left (across the road) Mt. Desert House and Nathan Salisbury House. On far left unidentified house. No house exists on this lot today. Large trees on each side of road. Telephone poles and wooden sidewalk on left side. View looking north. [show more]
Description: Negative made from sepia-toned print. Image shows Hall Quarry in operation; two large derricks in middle ground; rails in center of picture. Scene includes at least 15 men working in quarry; one pair of horses pulling wagon; various buildings in middle ground; large blocks of granite. Photograph taken from high vantage point, looking across Somes Sound.