Description: 1 typed page Letter from Ferris Greenslot outlining their aceptance of Eliot's changes to the book and suggesting some changes to make the new text fit the size of the origional pages. There maybe a page missing from this letter.
Description: 1 typed page Letter Ferris Greenslot stating that he feels S.A. Eliot could sign the orgional contract and that he would be happy to send a new contract to Eliot once he is back in Boston.
Description: 1 typed page Copy of a letter from S.A. Eliot and Greenslot covering the necessary changes to the new edition of the book: typo corrections, addition of an updated map, combination of chapters 7 & 8 into one, and renumbering of pages.
Description: Article by Dr. R. L. Grindle about Toddy Pond and its historical and present day usage, father making log rafts to get logs to the mills, herediary greatness, ancestor Edmund Grindle and his son, back to talking about Toddy Pond.
Allen-Holmes-Smith Photographs and other materials
Date:
1922
Description: Black and white photograph of an unknown woman. She wears a dress and a hat and is sitting on the running board of a car. Stated on the back: "Friend of Bertha E. Allen, Hartford, CT 1922".
Description: Photo of Mount Desert Rock lighthouse keeper Vinal O. Beal. Photo taken in 1925. Beal was second assistant (1909-1910), first assistant (1910-1911), then principal keeper (1911-c. 1918) of the lighthouse on Mount Desert Rock.
Description: This is a matted 8 by 10 black and white photograph of a class. It is labeled 1929 and "freshman class" on the back. No indication which school this is. The top mat has been removed, but the photo. needs to be removed from the back.
Description: This is a 5x7 photograph of school children outside the yellow school building which is presently used by Harbor House but was the Pemetic High School in Southwest Harbor. The photo is dated 1929.
Description: Railroad to Cut-Down Coasting Schooner Serving as a Barge. Baird Quarry, Minturn. C.1920 Courtesy of The Swan's Island Educational Society.