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- 1980s✖
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10840 | Working on Friendship sloop |
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| Description: Ralph Stanley working on the bow of a Friendship sloop in his shop. | |
10850 | Woman on boat |
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| Description: Woman age 50-60 working on fishing boat. Photo badly stained. Edges bent. Thumb tack holes in edges. | |
10862 | Woman in Southwest Harbor, Maine |
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| Description: Unknown Woman passing Library Main Street in Southwest Harbor. Cars parked on Street. | |
3829 | Will of Virginia Somes Sanderson |
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10830 | Wilfred Bunker |
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4463 | Who"s Who: Two John Dows of Cornville, Somerset Co. |
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| Description: Two photocopied pages taken from "Downeast Ancestry", Vol. 4, No. 3, October 1980. They present biographical information on Dow families. | |
10825 | Wendell Gilley |
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10826 | Wendell Gilley |
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14008 | Virginia Somes Sanderson |
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| Description: Virginia Somes Sanderson, age 70-80 wears glasses with dark frames, blue dress with seagulls. Seated at table inside Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen’s Building Museum. Collection of China displayed on shelf behind Sanderson. Portrait of Sarah Whiting Kittredge and William Thompson Memorial wreath on right. | ||
1536 | Village Architecture of Early New England |
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17125 | Victorian Interior Decoration: American Interiors 1830 - 1900 |
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16423 | Victorian House Coloring Book |
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| Description: Black and white drawings of rooms in Victorian house, with descriptions. Could be reproduced for coloring. |
2745 | U.S. Show Recognizes Work of Early Southwest Harbor Photographer |
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| Description: Article on one page with photographs describing the inclusion of the photographic works of Henry L. Rand in an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art. Rand (1862-1945) was a photographer working in the luminist style; he was first a summer and later year round resident of Mt. Desert Island. The exhibit at the National Gallery of Art was entitled "American Light: The Luminist Movement, 1850-1875. Previously archived as object id 012.fic.047.29 [show more] | |
10823 | Unknown fisherman |
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| Description: Unknown Fisherman (maybe clam digger) sitting on edge of boat with feet in the water. Two other small boats in the background. | |
9341 | Trip narration letter |
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| Description: This is possibly the beginning letter, 12/4/1985 of her environmental trip from Smithville, NY Discusses going throuhg Mass, NY, Delaware ,VA. Mentions lumbering practices. Going to Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Suffolk, Virginia. had been to other national wildlife reguges. Discusses treatment of brown skins and black skins. Mentions a letter from Sam waiting for her, not attached. Previously archived as 012.FIC.042.16, **1350 [show more] | ||
2778 | Tremont, a Small Town Experiences Growing Pressure |
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| Description: Supplement to the Bar Harbor Times, each including several artices, pertaining to development in the towns of Mt. Desert Island and Trenton. Tremont, a Small Town Experiences Growing Pressure Previously archived as object Id 012.FIC.043.4 | |
14649 | Traditions and Records: Southwest Harbor, and Somesville -- Mount Desert Island, Maine. |
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10568 | Three Tots |
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| Description: 5 X 7 black and white photograph of three unknown children (ages 4-6) standing in line near Park Street. Child in center wearing Park Street Playground t-shirt. | |
17463 | This New England, Mount Desert Island, Me |
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| Description: An article in Yankee magazine telling the history of Mt. Desert with excellent photographs. | ||
17237 | The Voyage of the Chianti |
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12937 | The Rediscovery of America’s Maritime Heritage |
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| Description: Descriptions, photographs of maritime paintings of the 19th C.; author is a "foremost marine artist." |
14163 | The Peabody Touch: Robert Swain Peabody, Peabody & Stearns |
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| Description: A videotape, probably created by Wheaton Arnold Holden, "The Peabody Touch", about the lifework of Robert Swain Peabody | ||
12596 | The Living Past: Being the Story of Somesville Mount Desert, Maine and Its Relationships with Other Areas of the Island |
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| Description: As the author says in the preamble, " This is the story...of the first permanent settlement on Mount Desert Island..." ?At one time Somesville had seven mills, five shipyards, four blacksmith shops, two stores, and ...serv[ed] the entire area and outlying islands." |
17186 | The Living Past: Being the Story of Somesville Mount Desert, Maine and Its Relationship with Other Areas of the Island |
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| Description: History of Somesville from approximately 1760s-1980s |
17274 | The Journal of a Gentleman Farmer, 1829-1832. |
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