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You searched for: Subject: OtherSubject: History - Mount Desert Island
Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
13440Between the Hills and Its 100 - Year Old Church
  • Publication, Literary, Speech
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • 7/14/1940
Description:
15 page Sermon / historical address given by Rev. Horace H. Leavitt, D.D. on the history of the Somesville Union Meeting House, U.C.C.
13390Somesville Maine, Somesville 1761-1961
  • Document, Pamphlet
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • People
  • 1/1/1962
Description:
Somesville Bicentennial pamphlet, black and white with Somesville history and illustrations
12964Maplewood Farm dairy receipt
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • People
  • 7/1/1925
Description:
July 1925 Maplewood Farm , E.T. Richardson, proprietor Milk, Cream, Poultry, Vegetables Eggs, Butter and Berries Sold to Mrs. Johnson 11 doz eggs, lard, coffee and (illegible) total $19.38
12933Martha Stewart Living
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, History - Seal Harbor
  • Other, Skylands
  • 2000
Description:
Magazine issue with article dedicated to Skylands home in Seal Harbor Maine, formerly Ford home built in 1939, includes photographs. September 2000 page 256
12932Mount Desert Larger Parish The Somesville Union Meeting House Society
  • Document, Memorabilia, Commemorative, Commemorative Card
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, History - Somesville
Description:
Summer 1952 Worship Schedule includes names of celebrants and dates of services. Includes the one Hundredth Anniversary of the erection of the meeting house and the back includes the mission statement, council and parish staff
12914Mount Desert Island Educational Survey
  • Document, Report
  • Other, Education
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Mount Desert Island High School
  • 1949
Description:
A report prepared for the Mount Desert Island regional high school committee. Printed by the Bar Harbor Times. Folder 9 also contains numerous letters, memos and announcements about the decision process, 1948, for building a new island wide High School to replace regional schools.
12854Visitors to the Annual Meeting of the Garden Club of America
  • Document, Program
  • Other, Gardens
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Places, Landscape
Description:
program reading Visitors to the Annual Meeting of the Garden Club of America July 11,12,13, 1934 Garden Club of Mt. Desert 10 pages listing names from A-Z.
12853Woman’s Literary Club of Mount Desert Maine
  • Document, Program
  • Organizations
  • Other, Clubs
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Women's History
  • 1/1/1951
Description:
Green booklet, fading to brown with black and white photograph of the Library and mill pond at Somesville. List of meetings, programs, people. Collect changes slightly from the 1936-37 edition
12797Mt. Desert Reading Room 1909
  • Publication, Yearbook
  • Organizations
  • Other, Clubs
  • Other, History - Bar Harbor
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Reading Room
  • 1909
Description:
Book of the Mt. Desert Reading Room club for men: includes act of incorporation, by-laws, club rules, membership, yacht club, deceased members
12768The Future of Mount Desert Island
  • Document, Pamphlet
  • Other, Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • Other, History - Bar Harbor
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Places, Landscape
  • 1928
Description:
A Cream colored booklet: A report to the Plan Committee Bar Harbor Improvement Association from Architect, Charles W. Eliot, the 2nd. 1928. Includes color maps and black and white photographs
12767Diary 1921
  • Publication, Book, Journal, Diary
  • Other, History - Bar Harbor
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • People
  • 1921
Description:
small diary: owner unknown- found in the attic of Roths’ home on Indian Pt. Road Names: Numerous names mentioned including Leighton Smith, Fraley, Disston. Only a few dates have activities such as chop wood, go skating. Also has prices of goods
12593John D. Rockefeller 1839-1937 Industrial Pioneer and Man
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • People
  • 1948
Description:
A Biography of John D. Rockefeller 32 pages for the Newcomen Society of England in North America by W. Trevor Holliday
12574Woman’s Literary Club of Mount Desert Maine
  • Document, Program
  • Organizations
  • Other, Clubs
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Women's History
  • 1/1/1998
Description:
Small Green booklet with black and white illustration of Somes Sound on cover.List of meetings, programs, people for the literary club. Note: Collect maintained
12282Islander
  • Publication, Yearbook
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Schools
  • People
Description:
Mount Desert Island High School Yearbook 1978. Photographic cover of a carriage path in the fall
12272Map of Acadia National Park
  • Map
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Tourism
  • 10/1/1975
Description:
1975 Map of Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island. Published by the National Park Service,U.S. Department of the Interior - shows carriage roads and trails, color (blue and orange).
12270150th Maine Anniversary Brochure
  • Document, Pamphlet
  • Other, History - Maine
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Tourism
  • 1970
Description:
Dawn of America with Cadillac Sunrise photograph on cover for the 150th Anniversay of Maine 1820 -1970. Includes a map of MDI with Pioneer names and dates and chronological events from 1604 - 1928. Includes map with points of interest.
12269Official Highway Map of Maine
  • Map
  • Other, Geography
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Tourism
  • 1969
Description:
Official Highway Map of Maine, 1960, Maine State Highway Commission, includes photographs of Mount Desert Island
12268Map of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont
  • Map
  • Other, Geography
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Tourism
  • 1971
Description:
1971 Citgo Map of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont with detail of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park
12000Pretty Marsh Then and Now
  • Map
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, History - Maine
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • 2000
Description:
“Pretty Marsh Then and Now c. 1778 - 2000, identifying early building sites, current homes, and other 'bits' of information that might be of interest” including burial grounds, old quarry sites (aka "paving motions", old woods roads and old known cellar sites (kitchen middens). Info. compiled and made by Alice M. Smith, adapted from Colby & Stuart map of 1887 & 1890-91; Bates, Rand and Jaques map of 1896; and DeLorme revision map of 1986. No scale given. [show more]
11304Mount Desert Island Historical Notes
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
Description:
News Clipping - Mount Desert Island Historical Notes Previously accessioned as **0650, Object ID 011.FIC.66.8
11299Newsclipping: “Past Tense” by Marion Kane
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
Description:
Newsclipping: “Past Tense” by Marion Kane. Previously accessioned as **0659
11298Newsclipping: “Old Time Traveler Mentions the Earliest History of The Island”
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Tourism
Description:
Newsclipping: “Old Time Traveler Mentions the Earliest History of The Island”. Previously accessioned as **0660, Object Id 011.FIC.66.6
11293Newsclipping: “The Stories of Early Days”
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
Description:
Newsclipping: “The Stories of Early Days”
11282Newsclipping: Bar Harbor Times “Old and Crisp Parchment Holds a Story of Early MDI Life” August 6,1959.
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Maps
Description:
Newsclipping: Bar Harbor Times “Old and Crisp Parchment Holds a Story of Early MDI Life” LaRue Spiker August 6, 1959. Previously accessioned as **0683, Object Id 011.FIC.71.8
11280Newsclipping: “Wool Washing”, Tannery” and “Happy Memories."
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Industry
Description:
Newsclipping: “Wool Washing”, Tannery” and “Happy Memories." Previously accessioned as **0687, Object Id 011.FIC.71.10