Description: Dawn of America with Cadillac Sunrise photograph on cover for the 150th Anniversay of Maine 1820 -1970. Includes a map of MDI with Pioneer names and dates and chronological events from 1604 - 1928. Includes map with points of interest.
Description: 1935 is missing. Gift of Northeast Harbor Library 1930 to 1936 Directory and Hand Book, known as Red Books 1936 is missing its cover. 1st page is a Greeting in poem form Each year has a greeting by a different writer
Description: Gift of Northeast Harbor Library. 1944, 53,57,59 known as Red Book, Directory and Hand Book 1944 book is dogeared Contains a lot of advertising as well as names addresses of summer cottagers along with their permanent address In NY, IL, etc Elmer Cousins name on front of 1953 and 1959 booklets
Description: 1994 Menu Guide to Mount Desert Island More than 20 Menus at a Glance, cuisine, prices, locations at your fingertips, newsprint 8.5 x 11 brochure advertising restaurants on MDI
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. Phamphlet from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden: A Meeting of East and West. Gives a overview of the garden and the different areas in it and shows a map of the garden.
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: 48 pps. Gives report of Selectmen on appropriations, receipts and expenditures, e.g., for sprinkling streets, disposing of garbage, payments to overseers of poor. Given to Jesup Library, January 2014
Description: Collection of 13 plays; titles are: A Case for Sherlock Holmes by Gladys Ruth Bridgham Caste by T.W. Robertson Cousin Faithful by Julie M. Lippmann A Scrap of Paper, Comic Drama in three acts by J. Palgrave Simpson His Heroine by Margaret Louise Holbrook The Snowball, a Farce-Comedy in three acts, by Sydney Grundy Betsy Baker by J. Maddison Morton The Trouble at Satterlee's by Louise Latham Wilson The White Silhouette and other acting monologues, by Evangeline M. Lent The Blundering Mr. Brown, a comedy in three acts, by Harold Hale If I Had A Thousand A Year, by J.M. Morton The Brixton Burglary, by Frederick W. Sidney Billy's Bungalow, by Eleanor Maud Crane A Kettle of Fish (adapted from the German), by Franz von Schonthan Parted by Patience, by Bessie Blair Smith [show more]
Description: Booklet about the Coast and Geodetic Survey, giving some facts about the organization, and encouraging people to join. Research for an article about Mount Desert by LaRue Spiker. Previously accessioned as **2002, object Id 2001.2002
Description: describing the project of renovating the Bass Harbor Memorial Library. Includes information on the mission of the organization, what community needs they hope to address, and how the plan will be completed. Appendices describe the services offered by the library and the history. Undated, but mentions that the project began in 2014.
Description: Small pamphlet with Confession of Faith: Christ is God, The Holy Spirit is God, Sacred Trinity, and other Articles including Baptism and the Lord's Supper.
Description: The Cumulative Impact of Development on Mount Desert Island, Maine published by the League of Women Voters of Mount Desert Island (1988). Includes interviews with Harry Owen, George Lawson, Kay Meserve and Merrill E. Stanley, Jr.
Description: Tributes to Dr. Edward Kellogg Dunham, summer resident of Seal Harbor, written by Henry Osborn Taylor and read before the Tavern Club of Boston and published in the New York Evening Post, by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. read in person before the Village Improvement Society of Seal Harbor, Maine; and by Simon Flexner. Includes reprint from The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. LII, May 1923 by H.D. Dakin. Includes "An Ode composed by Edward K. Dunham, Jr. on the occasion of the Golden Wedding Anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Hoe, January 15, 1923." [show more]
Description: Booklet by Coast and Geodetic Survey.Research for LaRue Spiker’s article about Mount Desert. Previously accessioned as **2003, Object Id 2001.2003
Description: Two excerpts from Chebacco: Hadlock Executed this Day, from the History Journal of the Mount Desert Historical Society, Vol. I, 1998 The Last Words and Dying Speech of Samuel L. Hadlock, from Chebacco, Vol. Vii, 2005.
Description: Madame Bacler de Leval, a French woman, efforts to establish a settlement for French refugees in the present Tremont area in 1792, This pamphlet summarizes those efforts as includes her diary (and other writings) in French. There are also handwritten notes in French, and a postcard from the donor, which are in a small envelope.