Description: "At Southwest Harbor after J. T. R. Freeman, Mrs. Emily Robinson Farnsworth had the [post] office for some time; then J. A. Freeman and William J. Tower held it alternately according to change of political administration for several terms. Then E. S. Thurston was appointed and held office for twelve years until Earll W. Gott was appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. The office has changed location with every new postmaster…" - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 105. "William J. Tower built the building east of the Jackson lot and he kept the post-office there for a number of years. He sold to E. S. Thurston when Mr. Thurston took over the duties of postmaster and after his services of twelve years were past, the property was sold in 1936 to Mrs. Fred A. Birlem whose son, Wallace Birlem, built the double garage behind it with living rooms above which he occupies [1938]." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 157. [show more]
Description: Nell Thornton famously said, in her book, The Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor, “The Southwest Harbor Public Library had its beginning [as the Tremont Public Library] in 1884 when Mrs. Annie Sawyer Downs gathered a number of discarded books from the hotels, mostly paper covered volumes, and placed them on a shelf in one corner of Dr. R. J. Lemont's drug store…” The library was, as were many small libraries on the coast of Maine, started by “people from away,” in other words, summer people. This small library, however, was quickly adopted by native Southwest Harborians, and has grown, in the almost one and a half centuries since its founding, to be one of Maine’s very few five-star libraries, according to the Library Journal Index of Public Library Service. Thornton, Nellie C., Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine (Merrill & Webber Company, 1938, The Southwest Harbor Public Library, 1988) [show more]
Description: Woman’s Literary Club program for 1927-1928. Mt. Desert, Maine. Written on the cover in pen is, “J.S. Fernald”. Previously Archived as 016.FIC.001.40.a
Description: Woman’s Literary Club program for 1951-1952. Mt. Desert, Maine. Picture of the Somesville library on the cover. “Marjory Hayward” written on the inside cover. Previously archived as object id 016.FIC.001.40.c
Description: ...By 21 Capitalists As Exclusive Fish and Game ReservePortland Press Herald news article describing new club in Maine near Bar Harbor where land will be developed by “a group of capitalists as a private playground where they may camp, fish and hunt to their heart’s content undistrubed by civilization.” Includes Map
Structures, Civic, Public, Public Safety, Fire Station
Creator:
Fennelley - George F. Fennelley
Date:
1950
Place:
Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description: Mount Desert Town Office, and Northeast Harbor Fire Station decorated for Christmas, circa 1950. The car to the left has been identified as a 1949-1951-era Ford.
Description: School master's desk. Top lifts to reveal space for books and pencils. One drawer at top with white knob. Two doors with shelves behind. One drawer at bottom missing pull. Decorative cut base. Lender info - used by Lynam Smith during the 1850s when he was the teacher in the first school in Pretty Marsh, called "The Little Red Schoolhouse." Lyman Smith also taught in other area schools. Donor is a descendant of Smith.
Description: A copy of the deed signing over property to be used for erection and maintenance of a church to be called "The Union Church of Northeast Harbor".
Description: Official Journal and Yearbook of the 71st Session of the East Maine Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, 1918 (100 pp.) Apollo: An illustrated manual of the History of Art throughout the ages, 1908 (351 pp.) Scans: covers, fist pages only
Description: Memorandum of the June 23, 2009 meeting at Acadia National Park Headquarters in order to decline the offer of purchasing the lighthouse located on Baker's Island.
Description: Interior of the Red Cross House, Oct 1931 from Lydia Vandenbergh's files. This building is now the Mount Desert Nursing Association. October 1931.
Description: B/W Photograph of the circulation desk area at the Northeast Harbor Library (older building). This photograph is also a postcard dated September 25, 1982.
Description: Small brochure for new parishioners of UCC, Seal Harbor - Abby Chapel. Contains a brief history of the Church. Rev. William McP. Bigelow is the minister.