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12055Farm Ledger, Bartlett's Island Farm (approx. 1910-1933)
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Other, Ledgers
  • Augustus P. Loring
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
12052Account Book Kept by May (Ellen) Loring Vaughan on Bartlett's Island
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book
  • Other, Ledgers
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
12045Picture of Margaret Todd
  • Document, Advertising, Poster
  • Other, Margaret Todd
  • Other, Ships
Description:
Picture of Margaret Todd
12042Paper poster Betwixt the Hills Walking Tour
  • Document, Advertising, Poster
  • Other, Posters
  • Other, Somesville Village Improvement Society
  • Other, Tourism
Description:
Paper poster Betwixt the Hills Walking Tour Maybe 1999
12040Ragtime Revue Poster
  • Document, Advertising, Poster
  • Other, Dance
  • Other, Shows
Description:
Ragtime Revue at Mount Desert Island High School ND
12039Brahms Requiem Mount Desert Summer Chorale and Orchestra Poster
  • Document, Advertising, Poster
  • Other, Mount Desert Summer Chorale and Orchestra
Description:
Brahms Requiem Mount Desert Summer Chorale and Orchestra Poster
12010The Old Standard Store and Hall
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Standard Granite Company
  • Other, Standard Hall
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.
12009Ed Pete Richardson
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Hall Quarry
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]
12006The Chapel at Hall Quarry
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Granite
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Other, Hall Quarry School
  • Other, Leavitt
  • Other, The Chapel, Hall Quarry
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).
12005Somes Sound - Our Island Fjord - Its Place in Industry
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Bookkeeping
  • Other, Booth Bros. Company
  • Other, Hurricane Island Granite
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]
12004Navigational Device
  • Object, Octant
  • Other, Navigation
Description:
May also be called sextant. Belonged to donor's (Gail Reiber) great-grandfather, Joseph H. Rumill (b. 1860) of Seal Cove.
119831927 and 1928 Red Book, Directory and Hand Book
  • Publication, Directory
  • Other, Red Book
  • Other, Social classes
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
119821930-36 Red Books
  • Document, Pamphlet
  • Other, Red Book
  • Other, Social classes
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
119811944, 53,57,59 Red Book
  • Document, Pamphlet
  • Other, Red Book
  • Other, Social classes
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
11932Table
  • Object, Furnishings, Table
  • Other, Dining tables
  • Other, Furnishings
  • Other, Furniture
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.
11786Stetson Elementary School class picture
  • Image, Photograph
  • Other, School children
  • Other, Stetson Elementary School
Description:
Class picture from Stetson Elementary School in Northeast Harbor
11739Old Farmer's Almanac
  • Publication, Almanac
  • Businesses, Farming
  • Other, Almanacs
  • Other, Weather
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.
11681Our Lady of Fatima Shrine, Oblate Seminary, Bar Harbor, Maine, 1951
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • Other, Architectural & site components
  • Other, Architectural drawings
  • Patterson, R.W., SR
  • n.d.
Description:
Sketchplan, landscape and hardscape plans and elevation, Our Lady of Fatima Shrine, Oblate Seminary, Bar Harbor, Maine, 1951
11537Fred Savage's Desk
  • Object, Furnishings, Desk
  • Other, Architects' offices
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Desks
Description:
Large desk/drafting table that belonged to Fred L. Savage
11455Somes House and Cottages, Somesville, ME. 2K.
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Building
  • Vessels, Ship
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]
11454Steamship Mount Desert, glass plate
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate Negative
  • Other, Transportation - Water
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.
11453Schooner "Kate Pray"
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Ships
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]
11451Looking Across Somes Cove to Lumber Mill
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Building
  • Places, Landscape
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.
11450Main Street, Somesville, ME
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
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]
11449View of Hall Quarry
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Building
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.