The Village Improvement Societiesof Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor, Northeast, and Southeast Harbor1915
Date:
1915
Place:
Mount Desert Island
Description: Guide to Mount Desert Island paths published by the Village Improvement Societies of Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor, Northeast, and Southeast Harbor. Cover reads: "A Path Guide of Mount Desert Island Maine Published by The Village Improvement Societies of Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor, Northeast, and Southeast Harbor 1915"
Description: Victrola made of oak, hinged top and compartment with two doors for record storage. Logo on inside of lid shows a dog listening to a Talking Machine with the text: "Victrola manufactured by Victor Talking Machine Co Camden, N.J. U.S.A Patented in united states and foreign countries".
Description: Black and white sepia tone publicity still for the 1918 Fox Film production "The Queen of the Sea" which was filmed on Mount Desert Island. Featured in the photo are five actors dressed in vaguely viking costumes with furs, horned or winged helmets, roman sandals, and carrying staffs, swords, crossbow and sheilds. Standing in the center with a lighter fur tunic, metal studded belt, large helmet, and holding a sword up is actor Walter Law portraying King Boreas. [show more]
Description: Black and white sepia tone photograph depicting the entire cast and crew of the 1918 Fox Film production "The Queen of the Sea" which starred Annette Kellerman and was filmed on Mount Desert Island.
Description: Black and white publicity still for the movie "The Queen of the Sea". Depicts two actresses, Annette Kellerman and Beth Ivins. Annette Kellerman is dressed as a mermaid sitting on rocks and Beth Ivins is on the sand below, holding Kellerman's hand. A thirds child actor dressed as a mermaid sits next to Kellerman. "The Queen of the Sea" was released in 1918 and was filmed on Mount Desert Island. It starred Annette Kellerman as Merilla the Queen of the Sea. [show more]
Description: Three framed black and white postcards of various scenes from the movie "The Queen of the Sea". Postcard in upper righthand corner depicts actress, probably Annette Kellerman, dressed as a mermaid laying on rocky shore. Below that is a postcard depicting a child actress dressed in white toga in a rock crevasse. Third postcard depicts an actor dressed in furs, a round helmet, and sandals standing next to a boat. Text of this postcard reads: "A Boreas Guard in Annette Kellerman's picture Queen of the Sea. August 19, 1917". "The Queen of the Sea" was released in 1918 and was filmed on Mount Desert Island. It starred Annette Kellerman as Merilla the Queen of the Sea. [show more]
Description: Red leather case and silver cigarette case inscribed on outside "Ensign Alessandro Fabbri U.S. N. R.F". Inside are 5 hand-rolled cigarettes and an inscription that reads "We transmit to you this wireless message of our boundless love and confidence. Christmas 1917. 'the Boys' the Otter Cliffs Radio Station".
Description: Headset/earphones worn in radio station by wireless operators when sending and receiving signals at U.S. Naval Radio Station at Otter Cliff. See matching set 43b, ID #53.
Modeled by Robert abbe; Reproduced by Howels Microcosm, Washington D.C. Copyright 1916.
Date:
1916
Place:
Mount Desert Island
Description: Relief map of Mt. Desert Island + vicinity. Modeled by Robert Abbe; reproduced by Howell's Microcosm, Washington D.C. copyright 1916. Turquoise, white, black and brown. Top righthand corner has label with title as well as signatures showing endorsements from Charles W Eliot and George B Dorr for the Trustees of Public Reservation. Lower righthand corner has label with maker and reproducer as well as date. On back is a label explaining the history; may be original. [show more]
Description: Selectmen's Annual Town of Tremont Report for the municipal year ending February 18,1910. includes the report of the School Board and Superintendent of Schools. Description based on: 1897 record from Maine State Library catalog, Augusta. "Formerly part of Mt. Desert; detached and incorporated under name of Manset, June 3, 1848; name changed August 8 of the same year to Tremont. Southwest Harbor set off in February, 1905."--Maine Register, 1995/96 THS has 1894 - to date There is an excel spreadsheet with complete inventory in file: My Documents/Tremont Town reports, & non-Tremont town reports [show more]
Campbell Publishing Company, Printers.Hancock County Publishing Co
Date:
1919
Description: Selectmen's Annual Town of Tremont Report for the municipal year ending January 31,1919. includes the report of the School Board and Superintendent of Schools. Description based on: 1897 record from Maine State Library catalog, Augusta. "Formerly part of Mt. Desert; detached and incorporated under name of Manset, June 3, 1848; name changed August 8 of the same year to Tremont. Southwest Harbor set off in February, 1905."--Maine Register, 1995/96 THS has 1894 - to date There is an excel spreadsheet with complete inventory in file: My Documents/Tremont Town reports, & non-Tremont town reports [show more]
Description: Letter dated 6 April 1919 recognising Sergeant Richard Allen's service in the American Expeditionary Force. Form letter. Form letter from Headquarters, American Expeditionary Force thanking soldiers for their service. Copied signature by General John J. Pershing, general officer commanding the AEF.
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. Map of all of the automobile roads in the State of Maine back in 1917. The map was created by Maine Automobile Association, Portland, Maine.
Description: Four Bunker family generations: Upper left – Julia Bunker Spurling (Sidney's daughter) (1850-1919); Lower left – Sidney Chadwick Hamor Bunker (1824-1918); Upper right – Alta Spurling Bunker (Sidney's grand daughter) (1876-1969); Lower right – Vincie Millicent Bunker (Sidney's great grand daughter) (1895-1993). (Perhaps ca. 1915.) Donor inherited photograph from his great-grandfather Robert Hamor whose older sister, Sidney Hamor Bunker, appears in this picture. [show more]
Description: Longfellow School photo ca. 1910 Cranberry Isles, on brown cardboard backing with IDs on reverse; children all dressed up, perhaps graduation day. Left to right: Front row: Leslie Stanley, Russell Bunker, John Stanley, Holsie Atkinson, Victor Erickson. Second row: Gracie Atkinson, Bernice Spurling, Laura Erickson, Margie Bulger Phippen, Hilda Bulger Spurling, Blanch White Atkinson, Alvah Bunker. Third row: Esther White Howard, Florence Bracy, Hazel Bunker Hardy, Helen Trussell Alley, Gladys Spurling, Willard Rosebrook. Fourth row: George Hadlock Superintendent, Edgar White, Bertie Stanley, Robert Stanley, Raymond Bunker, Teacher Mamie Birlem. (IDs probably by Ruth Westphal) [show more]
Description: Photo warped and faded on mounted on cardboard: Islesford Coast Guard Station lifesavers with IDs on reverse: "Consult Marian Spurling, (Captained 1887-1909) Capt. Benjamin Franklin Stanley and crew (Capt. Frank), Islesford Coast Guard Station Life Saving until 1915."
Description: A framed page from Cranberry Club members offering condolences to Mrs. Hamor on the loss of Captain Hamor signed July 9, 1913 by members of the Club: Emma L. Wesson, President; Eleanor Blodgette, VP; Juliana Wood, Secretary; Frances S. Pepper, Treasurer; Annie W. J. Low; W. Amos Doris?; Caroline M. Lewis; Elizabeth R. Arnold; Sophy Dallas Gwin; Frances Parkman; Emilio Ofsten Mulligan?. [This statement is mounted on a black matte on the reverse of a photo of an unidentified stone edifice surrounded by pine trees.] [show more]