Description: Photographs of Betsy Flagg Melcher's portraits, floral still lives, and nature scenes. Several photographs are of an exhibit of her paintings at the Northeast Harbor Library in 1992.
Description: Brochure listing private gardens on the open garden tour annually sponsored by the Garden Club of Mount Desert. The tour date was July 28, 1990 and included gardens of Collier, Andrews, Foulke, Saenz, Astor, Dennis, and Penniman/Harris.
Description: "Witnesses to History" is Part Four of a commemorative series celebrating: hundred years of Maine life. This copy covers WWI, (1914-1918)----The Health Care Revolution
Description: Copy of book section about the history of Mount Desert, specifically Seal Harbor. Many Photographs: J. D. Rockefeller Jr. riding in car, building sidewalk at Seal Harbor Village Green, Otter Creek Sewing Circle, Hollis Wright's fur trapping barn.
Description: Reproduction of oil on canvas, 11 x 19 ". Private Collection, to be used in "Inventing Acadia". Artists & Tourists at MD. @ The Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Twenty-seven glass plate photographs of Islesford and family of Frederick Morse. Sent to Northeast Harbor Library in l997 by Marie Locke, the photographer's great granddaughter, following an exhibit in Islesford.
Description: Article about Little Cranberry Isle post office and postmaster Joy Sprague, who built a big business for this tiny post office with cream puffs and a personal touch. Published in Down East Magazine, December 1994.
Description: Eighth-grader is sole participant in ceremony at Little Cranberry Island's graduation. She has spent her childhood on the island. She will attend Concord Academy next year.
Description: Purpose of the plan is to define ANP's management philosophy to guide management decisions over the next 15-20 years. Includes maps and drawings.
Description: Senior college essay of Eleanor Kinney about the development of Acadia National Park and conflicts between the summer residents and year-round working residents.
Description: Topographic map, Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park, Hancock County, Maine. [mapped and edited by the Geological Survey, 1934-35, 1939, and rev. 1956]. Reviews Section
Description: Biography and genealogy of Fred K. Savage with descriptions and photographs of homes and buildings he designed in Northeast Harbor. Published in Down East Magazine, February 1996
Description: This newspaper covers the creation of Acadia National Park, from Woodrow Wilson's federal proclamation creating Sieur de Monts National Monument until today.
Description: Article published, in part, by the Island Institute. This is Mr. Little's complete article of the development of Sutton Island from a working class, year-round place to a summer enclave. Story begins with an account of John Gilley.
Description: Hand-colored postal card shows Pebble Cove, including former C. W. Eliot cottage at left and Little Long Pond beyond trees in middle ground, right.
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Short biography of Islesford's resident artist and storyteller, Ashley Bryan with focus on his life and home on Cranberry Island. Published in Down East Magazine, December 1991.
Description: Paper from a talk given by Judith Goldstein at the Claremont Hotel in Southwest Harbor on July 14, l994. Compares the summer colonies of Bar Harbor and Newport.