Description: History of Bar Harbor, with photographs by Sargent Collier. Includes chapters on Acadia National Park, social and club life, island laboratories, Bar Harbor-Yarmouth ferry, Fire of 1947, Kebo Valley Golf Club, Bar Harbor Club, Pot and Kettle Club, the Building of Arts, Great Automobile War. Mentions performances of the Boston Symphony at the Building of Arts.
Description: A reminiscence by the author of his vacation days beginning in 1885 and continuing for about 40 years in York Co., Maine. He pays special tribute to the illustrator, Charles H. Woodbury
Description: Sequel to We Summer in Maine by same author, but exploring further to such places as Boston, Bar Harbor, Bangor, Harpswell, Camden, Pemaquid, Mohegan [sic] and Moosehead Lake.
Description: Lucie Pray age 10 - 12. Girl wears knee lenght full dress or duster, black boots and hat. Standing with bicycle next to board sidewalk. In back of sidewalk is stone wall and Somesville home.
Description: Narrow neck. Design on side - two pistols crossed, stars, eagle carrying spears and shield, two flags, 16 stars, cannon balls and anchor. Similar to those made by the American Flask and Cap Co. during the 1850s.
Description: Wooden cap nailed on each end. Marked G. Freeman 1770, H.G. Somes 1870. Donor info - this is the well known Somes Powder horn. Morris Somes was to be the next to sign.
Description: Leather shot bag bound around neck of green glass bottle. Neck stuffed with hemp. Dark brown leather. Edges stitched together. Small worn patch.
Description: Acadia National Park, Maine. General Information regarding Acadia National Park, Maine, written by the United States Department of the Interior National Park Service, distrubuted at the Mount Desert Chamber of Commerce. Published by The United States Government Printing Office. Washington, 1933. 20 pages. Previously archived as 016.FIC.001.1
Description: Mount Desert Yacht Club Annual 1951-1952. white booklet with flag on the cover. includes photographs, members, treasurer’s report, standing
Description: A History evening, sponsored by MDI Historical Society, Basketball on MDI:Hoops Around the Island, held on Thursday, April 16, 2009 at the Somesville Firehouse.
Description: Single page article with photograph featuring Jay Ramsdell, 13-year-old sports reporter. Jay wrote and edited a bimonthly newsletter on major sports teams and began a New England Patriots fan club. Previously archived as 012.FIC.047.2
Description: “Green Mountain Carriage Road. Complimentary Ticket. Not Transferable. Good for season of 1888.” The name written on it is, “Mr. J.W. Somes & Sadie[?]” On the back is written, “E. T Hanes [?]” Previously archived as 016.FIC.001.10
Description: LaRue Spiker and an unidentified friend sit in a docked boat for a picnic on Little Cranberry Island. A note on the back of the photograph from the photographer George Daniell to Spiker explains the excursion. Daniell also invites Spiker to view other photographs and works of art when she comes to visit him. Inscription on back is a message to LaRue Spiker from the photographer, George Daniell, in red pen. People Depicted: LaRue Spiker Black and white [show more]
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: The "Wednesday Spinners" load their spinning wheels and bags onto a boat in Islesford. Inscription on back reads "Islesfcord town/ The Wednesday Spinners/ Spiker" in blue pen, "01 III" in blue marker, and "100%" in green marker. Black and white