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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
18420Small pink flowers.
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • July 1980
Description:
Color slide a small pink flowers growing on slender stalks of a ground cover plant. Notation on the box reads: Crystal Bog From box labled July 1980
18419Bog
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • July 1980
Description:
Color slide a open water in the center of a bog. Notation on the box reads: Crystal Bog From box labled July 1980
18418Evergreen
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • July 1980
Description:
Color slide a closeup of new growth on evergreen branches. Notation on the box reads: Crystal Bog From box labled July 1980
18417Snow on Meadow
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1975
Description:
Color slide a snow covering tree branches and a meadow.
18416Fall Leaves
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • April 1983
Description:
Color slide a group of maple trees which have begun to turn fall colors. From box labled: Great Heath & Col. Falls, April 1983
17937Oil and the Maine Coast Sierra Club Side Show
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • Dec 1972
Description:
Color slide of an aerial view of land. Slide 53 Duplicate slide. Orgional is object id 998.1980.3085.2645.tt From box: December 1972, These appear to be a slide show for the local chapter of the Sierra Club.
17936Oil and the Maine Coast Sierra Club Side Show
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • Dec 1972
Description:
Color slide of oil tankers in port. Slide 54 Duplicate slide. Orgional slide is object id. 998.1980.3085.2645.uu From box: December 1972, These appear to be a slide show for the local chapter of the Sierra Club.
18415Plowed field
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • April 1983
Description:
Color slide a plowed field with a puddle of water. From box labled: Great Heath & Col. Falls, April 1983
18414Cross section of Soil
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • April 1983
Description:
Color slide a slice cut into the ground showing ground cover on top and layer of dark soil underneath. From box labled: Great Heath & Col. Falls, April 1983
18413Fall leaves on Mountain
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • April 1983
Description:
Color slide fall leaves on trees on the side of a mountain next to water. From box labled: Great Heath & Col. Falls, April 1983
3851Events 2011
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • 2011
Description:
Celebrate! 250: Chowder Supper & Variety Show, A Birthday Party for MDI Jan. 13, 2011.Featuring Past Luminaries & Wondrous Tales. Programs, tickets Mount Desert Islander newspaper article, "Show, dinner, celebrates 250 years," Jan. 13, 2011 Letter to editor, Mount Desert Islander, Jan. 27, 2011 from Susan Lerner, Ned Butler, Kathleen Miller thanking community for support of chowder supper. Exhibit of "250 Years, 250 Treasures" curated by Annette Carvajal. Mount Desert Islander, "John Gilley of MDI: Battle of the Wilderness; Battlefield Injury was beginning of end for Maine Bluecoat," May 26, 2011. (Last of three parts) Expedition to Explore the History of Somes Sound; Voyage aboard the M/V Asticou, July 19, 2011 (invitation and accompanying script) Invitation to Annual Holiday Party, Dec. 16, 2011 Sample event planner. [show more]
3847Barn Tour (2006)
  • Object, Clothing, Binder
  • 2006
Description:
An entire binder devoted to planning,volunteers, tickets,poster distribution, sponsors, owners, and names/descriptions of the barns.
3764Granite Motions: Quarrying History on Mount Desert Island
  • Document, Reprographic Copy, Photocopy
  • 2001
Description:
Background info., planning notes, photographs of exhibit, photocopy of Tombstones and Paving Blocks: the History of the Maine Granite Industry by Roger L. Grindle, photocopy of the Granites of Maine by T. Nelson Dale, photocopy of 1902 annual report of the Bureau of Industrial and Labor Statistics for the State of Maine, other exhibit notes.
3763Exhibits 2007-2010
  • Document, Program
Description:
2007-2008: Lost and Found, found object art April 2008: Art and Soles: celebrating shoes, footprints, feet and soles/souls Summer/fall 2008: Get the Inside Story: 200 Years of Lifestyles & Homes on MDI. Items from "Ravenscleft," "Cedar Cliff," 2008: Somesville Museum 2008-2009, Selectmen's Building, The Cobbler's Tools 2009, April 8-May 16, The Big and the Small, work from Island artists in variety of media. 2009: Traveling in Style on Mount Desert Island, 1860-1920, June 19-July 25, Photos and Objects from the Raymond Strout Collection, curated by Susan Lerner. 2009: Three Centuries of Hooking: Hooked Rugs from Private Collections. 2010: Folk Art from MDI Collections, Aug. 1-Sept 4, 2010, Judith Burger-Gossart, curator; old School House & Museum. 2010, May and June: Don't Say Cheese 2010: Home Front & Battle Front: Stories, Photos, Letters, Posters, Other Unusual Articacts, Old School House. Photo Detectives [show more]
3760"Not a Level Field in Town...Yet to Farming We Were Bound" A History of Agriculture on Mount Desert Island
  • Object, Clothing, Binder
  • 2002
Description:
Black Binder: Excerpts from Gertrude Carroll Diary, 1891-1893. Notes about Stone Barn Farm, Crooked Rd., Bar Harbor. Notes & photos about Harold "Cap" Whitney Farm: Fair Acres. Howe C. Smith Farm, Salisbury Cove--in photos Hanscom Family harvesting hay, Hulls Cove, 1942 Miscellaneous Farm Photos: Sargent Farm, Norway Dr.;Andrews Farm Truck; Clark's Dairy; Oxen Team at Salisbury Farm (Acadia Farm); Richardson Dairy Farm Folders: with poster for exhibit with info. about loans for exhibit. with planning notes and photocopies of photos #1: Sam and George Gilley Haying at Gilley Brook Haying at Hadlock Field, Cranberry Isles Harvesting Fresh Water Marsh Hay at Little Long Pond, Seal Harbor Albert Hanscom, cutting hay for Helen Strout in Hulls Cove, 1942 #2: Layout of Carroll Farm Carroll Farm Barn Layout Hay Straddle, drawing by Heather Sisk #3: Certificate of ownership, Mt. Desert Island Dairies, Inc. (1935)--copy [show more]
3759Exhibit Files: 1997, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006
  • Publication, Catalog
Description:
1997: Charles W. Eliot and John Gilley: Good Hope for Our Country. Plan of exhibit, list of artifacts & photographs, bibliography, "John Gilley and Charles W. Eliot: Good Hope for Our Country," by Jaylene B. Roths (ms.), "The Gilley Family of Mt. Desert," by William Otis Sawtelle, (ms), and other notes. 1997: From Boarding House to Grand Hotel: The Origins of Tourism on Mount Desert Island. Background notes for exhibit, list of photographs and other items. 2000: Victorian Dining on Mount Desert Island. Photographs of exhibit; artifact list; background notes. Many items loaned for exhibit; excerpts from rules of dining, how to set tables, cookbooks, etc. 2001: Stitch in Time," at Somesville Museum: Weaving, Woolen Mill, Spinning, Sewing, Quilting, 2002: "I Came to this Place: The Story of the Village of Somesville." A new permanent exhibit at the Somesville Museum. 2004: Somesville Museum. Many of same objects and info. as in 2002 exhibit, above. 2005: Somesville Museum, "Arrival of Rusticators in 1855, Their Adventures, and Stories of the Local Residents They Met." Tracy Party, poem by Theodore Winthrop. 2006: Handicrafts Exhibit, notes from Smallidge. Also notes about Winter Industries, Getting By in Winter or Hard Times, What's Here to do After Summer People go home? [show more]
3758Somesville Exhibit Folders 1-5, 10
  • Document, Document File
Description:
Paper in front indicates what should be in each folder; many items missing, as noted. Photos and background info. about items, exhibits in Somesville Museum. Folder 1 (2006?): Articles on spinning, skating; photo. of homesteads on Sutton Island; unknown photo. of sailboat in lake. Discarded: mounted copies of archival items. Folder 2: Honor roll of Somesville men who lost lives to their country, 2 sketches from Somes House register.- Discarded: mounted copies of archival items. Folder 3: Mounted photos: menu.- Discarded Folder 4: Mounted photos.- Discarded Folder 5: Mounted photos: Grindles- Discarded Folder 10: Notes on boat-building on MDI. Brief biographies of Jarvis Newman, Farnham Butler, Ralph Stanley, Lee Wilbur; Hinckley Co., Morris Yachts. Folder 10 retained, refiled as Box 104, folder 2: Institutional records. Photos in folders 3-5 discarded- printed/mounted copies of photos from the collection. [show more]
3736Town Hill Fire Dept. Records
  • Document, Correspondence
Description:
Includes l1/27/11 letter from Vicki Salsbury to David Rockefeller Fund notifiying that the Fire Co. is disbanding and that it will combine efforts with the Bar Harbor Fire Dept. Same letter to Collier House and Jordan-Fernald Funeral Home. Also includes lists of firefighters, newspaper clippings
3732Records of John Gilley, Widows Pension, Death
  • Object, Data Processing, Digital Videodisc
  • National Archives
  • 1864 ca
Description:
A DVD that contains records of John Gilley, related to a widow's pension and death, and documents related to his widow, Lorinda Gilley. Files copied from original records in the National Archives. This set of records were obtained during the research conducted by Tim Garrity, 2005. See media tab for a .pdf file that includes all records of Gilley.
3531Secretary's Book, GAR
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • 1916c.
Description:
7" x 8" booklet that includes oath for becoming member; list of charter members; and scanty minutes of meetings. Most of the pages are blank.
3533Southwest & Northeast Harbors records
  • Document, Correspondence
  • 1932
Description:
Letter from Andrew E. Parker, Southwest Harbor Selectmen Chair to George Edwin Kirk Post re sending a check; letter from Town of Mt. Desert town manager Herbert A. Thomas to H.S. Leland, George Edwin Kirk Post re appropriating $50.00 for Memorial Day.
3640Union Church of Northeast Harbor
  • Document, List
Description:
Documents confirming that Fred L. Savage drew the working drawings for the Northeast Harbor Union Church and supervised the construction. Includes list of summer and winter residents who contributed to the founding of the church. Donor found these papers among those of his mother.
2959Odd Fellows Cadillac Mountain Memorial Services
  • Publication, Literary, Speech, Sermon
Description:
Xerox compilation of Services
2558The Campaign to Restore the Sound School House
  • Document, Report
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • July 1998
Description:
Fundraising and informational materials prepared for the Sound School House Campaign Committee of the Mount Desert Island Historial Society dated July 1998. Includes the Sound School House Fact Sheet, the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Fact Sheet, the Sound School House Restoration and Use Plan, Fundraising Plan, and pledge sheet.
2557The Campaign to Restore the Sound School House
  • Document, Report
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • 1998
Description:
Fundraising and informational materials regarding the Sound School House Restoration project prepared by the Mount Desert Island Historical Society and dated March 1998.