Description: This collection is an assortment of ephemera relating to coastal Maine, Maine history, and inns, motels, hotels and homes on Mount Desert Island and in Hancock County. The collection is divided into 7 series: Books and Souvenir Booklets, Maps and Blueprints, Acadia National Park, Hotels/Inns/Schools/Homes/Buildings, Ephemera, Photos and Postcards.
Description: Folder 9 Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park Maine: A scenic wonderland of ocean, lakes and mountains, 1930?, 14, [1] pages: illustrations, maps. Folder 10 Sculpture Tour Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium, 2014, brochure and map showing 34 stone sculptures located around Maine. Folder 11 A Great Scenic Highway, the motor road to the summit of Cadillac Mountain, brochure, ca. 1932. Folder 46 Drawing by Charles S. Reinhart “On top of Newport Mountain*, Mount Desert” (1888), published on “Harpers Weekly” vol. XXXII, no. 1654 (*now Champlain Mountain). Folder 52 Brochure "Visit Bar Harbor - Acadia National Park", 1952. Folder 53 Brochure "Acadia National Park" by the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1947. Contains illustrations and a map of the island. 16 pages. [show more]
Description: Rough copy of development plans, 13x18" tracing cloth, of part of Mount Desert Island showing property of Mount Desert Eastern Shore Land Company (a development group), encompassing 3500 acres on land now part of Seal Harbor and Acadia National Park. Shows cottage lots near Wildwood Farms, the Triad, Turtle Lake (Bubble Pond today). Also shows proposed elevated railroad from Northeast Harbor to Jordan Pond, Eagle Lake, and beyond.
Description: Photographs, slides, magazine and newspaper articles about various buildings. BOX 1 ANP Anthony Asticou Bar Harbor Habitat House Barrett Bartlett Island Bass Barn Beard Caivano COA -Auditorium -Greenhouse -Dorm -Student Housing Edge Dave and Ellen Fox Frazier Wendell Gilley Museum Gimple/Dudley BOX 2 Hubbard Heyward/Crothers Hodder Irish Point Ingles Kaizer Katona/Lerner Kimball Levy/Gruell Longmaid McLean House Milliken Morris NEH Church Pierce Port in a Storm Lyman Perry David Rockefeller, Jr. Somesville Bridge Sunshine House Spahr Thayer School, Dartmouth Total Health Center The Turrets Van Heerden Waldron Proposed YMCA CDS: Cook Williams Wilson/Streeter Mt Desert Me Homes Fox Waldron COA Anthony [show more]
Description: A letter from Harold Peabody to the director of the National Park Service, Stephen T. Mather. Peabody believes that he and Mather share a similar desire to see wild places conserved and that Mather will see that the natural character of Mount Desert Island will be preserved by the National Park Service by not allowing further development of Lafayette National Park. People Mentioned: William C. Endicott