Mount Desert Island Historical Society Bicentennial Committee
Collection:
MDI Historical Society
Date:
1961
Description: Ten pages of handwritten and typewritten notes of the Bicentennial Committee pertaining to the planning of programs and activities for the celebration of the Somesville Bicentennial.
Description: Notes created by the MDI Historical Society regarding the Virginia Somes Sanderson house, which Sanderson proposed to donate to the Society for use as a museum. Sanderson's own notes are appended to the original.
Description: Handwritten notes of Virginia Somes Sanderson pertaining to the handling of her proposed donation of the Somes house to the Mount Desert Island Historical Society.
Description: Handwritten one page folder cover describing printing details of the MDI Historical Society Newsletter. Date unknown. Printing was to be done by Downeast Graphics, Ellsworth, Maine.
Description: People were informally harassing, spying on her. She wrote statements of the incidents. Person came to her home claiming to be from the Indianapolis News. Police following her. two documents, dated July 8, 1950. On yellow typing paper. Previously archived as object id 012.FIC.15.11, **1282
Description: One page of rough, handwritten notes by Spiker in preparation for article on a storytellying program in Mt. Desert schools. Previously archived as Object Id 012.FIC.064.2
Description: 9 handwriten and typed pages Notes on a variety of topics with source notations. Topics range from the 1788 Deed of Tinker to Robinson, notification of valuation to the residents of Mount Desert, Captain William Reed, 1770 marriage of James Collins and Hannah Abbot, Champlain's Voyages, listo of refrences and things to look up.
Description: 1 Typed page A note from author to reader discussing the appearance of the finished book, explanation of the darkness of certain text, the uneveness of the margins, an how to book was put together.
Description: 10 hand written scraps Scraps of paper with notes scribbled on them: -Fire Going on Western Mt been going for days -Miss Jean Rand, Mr Brewster at SWH Hop Sat Night -From Bar Harbor, Miss Rand, Miss Ballard, Miss Ridgeway, Miss Daisy Rand, Master Percy Rand, Edgan Crocker, Dr. Otis visits camp Fri July 25, 1984 -Pres Eliot arrives , Prof Gurney, CC Everett, Dyerly, Sasldon, Bo Pierce, Mae Vance, Beudelari, Harvard Faculty? July 24, 1984 -40 minutes to row from SW to NE Harbor two people - Charles Eliot's Log of the Sunshine 1880 -Log of the Sunshine 1877-1880 -Champlain Society 1881 Champlain Society Records of Membership -Champlain Society Records of Cambridge and Boston Meetings. -Champlain Society Camp Pemetic - Mt. Desert Champlain Society [show more]
Description: 1 Typed Page Excerpt fromt he Champlain Society Log book Monday July 4,1881. Details, Raising of the flag at Camp Pemetic, fireworks at Northeast Harbor.
Description: 4x6 piece of paper with hand written note detailing the Champlain Society members and their field of study back in 1880 while they were in Somes Sound.
Description: Note by LaRue Spiker, taking information from ‘Florida Wild Flowers’ by Mary Francis Baker, 1938. Research for LaRue’s article about Florida. Previously accessioned as **1965, object Id 2001.1965
Description: Rough note by LaRue Spiker, listing common and Latin names for plants. Research for an article on Florida. Previously accessioned as **1966, Object Id 2001.1966
Description: Notes on a 5 yr. diary written by Minnie Dolliver, includes obituaries of: Dollivers; Marilyn, Rudolph, Russell, Carolyn,Delores Elene,Carl - Norwoods; Meda, Milton, Capt.Joseph Bassett, Rhoda May , Clyde - Gotts: Lucy, Ronald, Ava(Rumill), IrmaJosephine, Ester, Blanche,Charles - Fred Gonya - Arthur George Goodrich - Henry J. Dionne Sr. - Fuller; Jack E, Hildred W., Walter A., W. Atherton - Wass; Henry B., Winifred L., Thelma Grover. Annotation Notes of diary are compiled by Meredith Hutchins Discusses her work washing and ironing [show more]
Description: 2 small pages of notes by LaRue Spiker, about a woman. Possibly an idea for future writing. Previously accessioned as **1909, Object Id 2001.1909