Description: Article wirtten by LaRue Spiker about lobsters and the lobster fishing industry for the Bar Harbor Times. Previously archived as 012.FIC.022.1
Description: Collection consists of three boxes of archival files donated by the Seal Harbor Library pertaining to the history of Seal Harbor village and Acadia National Park. An itemized summary of each boxes' contents is enclosed in each box. Article from an unknown newspaper with the handwitten date of 1936. Full Title of the article is Acadia Calls the Tourists: One Maine's Famous Mount Desert is Now An Island Park For All People by Frank George. Talks about the history of the park, additions to the park, guide services, the transition from Sieur de Monts National Monument to Acadia National Park, how the park has become more accessible. [show more]
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: Newsletter about the happenings on Mount Desert Island during the summer social season. Topics covered wresteling matches, Clubs and how to get into them, Movies, plays, happenings at the Bar Harbor Casino, where is the best places for swimming, appenings on Maine Summber Visitors' Day
Allen-Holmes-Smith Photographs and other materials
Date:
1934
Description: Photograph of Andrew A. Somes at 24 years of age. His obituary from Bar Harbor Times, date March 5, 1998, is attached to the back of the photograph. Also written on the back are the names, ages and birthdates of Andrew and his two sisters: "Andrew 87 (1910), Valeria 85, 1913, Mary 73, 1925".
Description: Yellow bound yearbook program with pencil reading Garden Club of Mt. Desert. Cover has black and white photograph of a sailboat in the Sound and reads: Annual Meeting of the Garden Club of America July 11,12,13, 1934 Garden Club of Mt. Desert Included several other items to follow Also 2 newspaper clippings that confirmed these items belonged to Mrs.Joseph W.Wilshire of Wilshire Farm of GreenwichCT
Description: Framed photo. of nine young men in basketball uniforms, two men in suits. Identified: Top from right: Floyd Graves Davis, Otter Creek Second from right, top: Julian Graves Smith, Otter Creek (killed 1943, New Georgia, Solomons) Removed from frame 04/11/2014 (AB)
Description: Boy in sailboat in Somes Harbor. Could this be Don Smith? Ralph Stanley said the boat might be a "Hustler". Western and Mansell mountains in distance.
Description: Program The second Subscription Series Summer of 1938 of the Building of Arts, Bar Harbor ME. Includes advertising from a variey of establishments on the island. Has announcement of a black man (African American), a singer and musician
Description: Brown Compositions lined notebook with glob and Our World School Series design on coverProperty of Busy Bee’s :records of weekly meetings from 1934-Feb. 1942 Hand -written in ink.