Description: This 11 by 14 inch black and white photograph is a copy of a Ballard photograph used in an exhibit around 2002. The print is of the Bass Harbor Light taken from the rocks beyond the light going towards Ship Harbor. The bell is in view, as is the light. The lower sky is filled with clouds.
Structures, Civic, Assembly Hall, Fraternal Lodge, Grange Hall
Creator:
unknown
Date:
2010
Description: A CD that contains 45 digital images taken on June 5, 2010 at Salisbury Cove, Maine. These photos document the repair and maintenance work that was done on the stage curtain at the Bay View Grange. Photos include Charlotte Singleton and several unidentified individuals.
Description: This is a 6 by 8 inch photo in grayscale mounted on the back of a poster in a wooden frame. The frame measures 9 and 1/2 by 11 and 1/2 inches. The photo is frayed on the edges and has a black marking jutting up from the bottom right hand corner to the stern of the schooner. It is a two masted schooner in drydock. A U.S. Flag flies from the back mast. There is a bow spread. Anchored boats can be seen in the background. People are around the exposed hull and on the wharf. It looks old. The frame is damaged too. Pieces of the top layer of wood are chipped off. The paper backing on the reverse side has green and black lettering and the name "Addie Smith" is written in pencil in cursive. There is a single piece of wood in the center of the back running from the top and bottom sections of the frame. It is held in by two nails. This piece of bracing measures 3 and 1/2 by 9 and 1/4 inches. [show more]
Description: A video taken of the January, 2014 MDI Historical Society Bean Supper held in the cafeteria of Mount Desert Island High School. Shows participants of the Dog Mountain Band, attendees at the supper, talk by society president, William Horner.
Allen-Holmes-Smith photographs and other materials
Date:
07/31/2010
Description: This is a large flat diploma issued to Bertha McFarland by the Narrows School, Trenton, Maine on July 1, 1904. The title is "Diploma of Honor". Bertha McFarland's full name is Bertha Elise McFarland before she married Richard O. Allen of Somesville, Maine, on November 6, 1924. She died on March 30, 1997 in Bar Harbor, Maine.
Description: This 11 by 14 black and white photograph is a copy of a Ballard photograph used in an exhibit in about 2002. The print is of three men working on the hull of a motorboat in drydock. They are replacing the wooden planking and ribs on the port side towards the stern. The motor launch is white with a dark stern. Looking under the stern two boats are partially visible with large numbers on their sides. On the left side of the photo is a hull of a large gray boat with a number on the hull in the style that the numbers were displayed during World War II. Tools and scraps of wood are visible in the work area around and under the boat being repaired. [show more]
Description: There are five folders in this drawer all dedicated to "Breakwater". John T. Kane is the owner and the location is noted as Bar Harbor. The first folder has Kraft. The second folder has linens. The third folder has several drawings on tissue-like paper of balconies, pillars/columns, etc. The fourth folder has mantels/details. The fifth folder has blueprints.
Document, Advertising, Advertising Card, Political Card
Date:
2014
Description: Postcard urging people to vote for Brian Hubbell ("a proven, effective voice for our communities") for state representative in the 2014 elections.
Document, Advertising, Advertising Card, Political Card
Date:
2014
Description: 8.5 X 11 political flyer against Brian Langley citing increased health insurance rantes, his vote against expanding health care in Hancock Co. (comment from Dr. Julian Kuffler of SW Harbor),
Description: This is one of two 11 by 14 inch black and white COPIES of Ballard photos used in an Historical exhibit about 2001. The source of the originals is not known. This print is taken from in front of the original Jordan Pond House facing the Bubbles. There are 4 chairs in the foreground, only one is occupied. There is another chair on the left edge of the photograph. The original of this photo --and possibly the negative -- are in the collection of the Southwest Harbor Public Library. MDIHS does not have permission to reproduce this image. [show more]
Description: This is the first of two folders in drawer 11. It is entitled "Buonriposo, Fabbri, Bar Harbor". The notation indicates that there are blueprints and kraft.
Description: Nocturne: By the Quiet Lake, by FJ Keller 1877. Reconstructed by David Schildkret, Prof. of Choral Music, Arizona State Univ. School of Music, using Sibelius 6 software, from parts held in the MDI Historical Society. NOTE: If used, give above attribution.
Description: 3 Drawing each including plan, elevations and section for a small house. Includes one drawing, ink on linen, one blueprint and one drawing, pencil on kraft paper. Size: 18 in by 24 in.
Description: There is one folder in drawer 12 . It is entitled, "Cassatt House, Bar Harbor". The notation also includes the following: #1 blueprints on linen in coded linen fabric; and #2 blueprints. The blueprints are rolled up on the left of the drawer, that is, the part which does not fit into the folder. Another folder with this accession # exists in drawer 13. The second folder has the same # because the tracing and kraft it contains are also of the Cassatt House A large pencil on tracing of a cornice. [show more]
Description: Chebacco Vol. XI, 2010 Deasy: A Maine Man by Bill Horner, M.D. Maine Sea Coast Mission Hooked Rugs by Judith Burger-Gossart Poems by Helmut Juretschke Henry L. Rand: Photographer & Visual Diarist by Meredith Hutchins Poems by Thomas Peter Bennett A Path of One's Own by Judith S. Goldstein A.C. Fernald's Store by Allen Fernald "Ravenscleft" on Sea Cliff Drive by Anne Stebbins Funderburk
Description: Vol. VII, 2012: The Woman's Question: Francis Parkman's Arguments Against Women's Suffrage by Tim Garrity "Women got the vote fifty long years ago" by La Rue Spiker Elinor Wylie's Mount Desert Island Retreat by Carl Little A Literary Refuge: Ruth Moore and Eleanor Mayo by Sven Davisson Casualties: The Women of Mount Desert and the Civil War by Tim Garrity Sargent House: A Woman's Gift to the Outer Island of Down East Maine by Rosamond S. Rea Reflections of a Natural Historian by Ruth Gortner Grierson [show more]
Description: Vol. XVIII 2017 "A Sense of Place" A Sense of Place: Maine in Winter, Roxana Robinson The Somesville Bridge, Roc Caivano "Like it Growed There": Architecture and the Environment on Mount Desert Island, 1880-1940, David W. Granston III Two Architects, One Island, Sargent C. Gardiner First Person: Asticou and Northeast Harbor Forward to "Memories of a Lifetime" (1972), Charles Savage "Memories of a Lifetime" (1902), Augustus C. Savage Growing up in Asticou: The late 1940's to Mid-1960's, Rick Savage Northeast Harbor in the 1940's: Nothing Gold Can Stay, Louisa Newlin Real and Imagined France in Acadia National Park, Tim Garrity Apples of Eden: Discovery and Change in Eastern Maine's Orchards, 1760-1930, Todd Little-Siebold A Fisherman's Paradise: A History of Inland Fish Conservation on Mount Desert Island, Erik Reardon Henry van Dyke at Seal Harbor, Carl Little [show more]