Description: Sketchplan, alterations and additions, foundation and first floor plan, Home for Mrs. Russell Wilson, Somesville, ME, 1949 Initials "DEI" on plan
Description: Written when author was 85 years old, an account of her family's times at "Baymeath" in Bar Harbor. Preface is written to her grandson, Capt. Wm. McCormick Blair, Jr., who was serving during WWII in India.
Description: A copy of map named Path and Road Map of the Western Part of Mount Desert Island, Maine. Orignally compiled by Waldron Bates, Edward L. Rand and Herbert Jaques. Revised and published by William Jay Turner. 1941.Shows Main Trails Graded, Other Trails, Old Woods Road, and the Carriage Roads.
U. S. Geological Survery, Department of the Interior
Publisher:
U.S. Department of the Interior; War Department (Ellsworth)
Collection:
Map Collection
Date:
1942
Description: Reprint of 1942 U. S. Geological Survey topographical map of "Mount Desert Quardrangle, Hancock County." Includes western and a portion of eastern Mount Desert Island, and also Lamoine, Trenton, Surry and Blue Hill. Reprint was made in 1947. Originally published in connection with the War Department (Ellsworth).
Description: War Survey: includes number of wells, beds, linens, cooking utensils, vehicles, firearms available in the area of Southwest Harbor, Manset and Seawall by May Salsbury, Survey Chairman Seawall, Manset P.O., Maine
Description: A copy of a map of the Path and Road for the Eastern Part of Mount Desert Island, Maine. Originally compiled by Waldron Bates, Edward L. Rand and Herbert Jaques. Revised and published by William Jay Turner in 1941. Shows Main Trails Graded, Other Trails, Old Woods Road, and the Carrriage Roads.
Description: Madame Bacler de Leval, a French woman, efforts to establish a settlement for French refugees in the present Tremont area in 1792, This pamphlet summarizes those efforts as includes her diary (and other writings) in French. There are also handwritten notes in French, and a postcard from the donor, which are in a small envelope.
Description: Prepared by the State Highway Commission, Planning Survey Division. 1946 Includes county and urban street maps. Red cover, spiral bound, 19" X 25", 66 pps.
Description: Blueprint, first floor plumbing, house, House and Guest House for Mr. and Mrs. R.A. Thorndike, Bar Harbor, ME, 1947 **Access to digital images attached to record should be made through the media tab, above, not through Image Management screen.01/07/2014
Description: Black leatherbound guestbook kept by unknown individual, possibly Constance Robbins. First entry is Eugene Robbins. Notes regarding gifts to host/hostess in back of the book.
Description: Mount Desert Deer Past and Present, 1944. By Lawrie Holmes of the American Wildlife Institute. 36 pages, including “sources of information”. Previously archived as 016.FIC.001.24
Description: Volume XV of the Social Service Review, in which LaRue Spiker has written an article titled "Rural Housing Conditions in an Illinois Township".
Description: Service bulletin for Services Commemorating the Organization of the Congregational Society of Mount Desert in July 1840 Held at the Meeting Housedate when 15 page Sermon / historical address was given by Rev. Horace H. Leavitt, D.D. on the history of the Somesville Union Meeting House, U.C.C.
Description: Service bulletin for Services Commemorating the Organization of the Congregational Society of Mount Desert in July 1840 Held at the Meeting Housedate when 15 page Sermon / historical address was given by Rev. Horace H. Leavitt, D.D. on the history of the Somesville Union Meeting House, U.C.C. coloring in cover illustration