Description: Articles about MDI pasted into scrapbook. "Mount Desert on the Coast of Maine" (by Clara Barnes Martin), "A Week on Mt. Desert" parts 1-4, poetry, "Mount Desert", "Mount Desert and its Scenery."
Description: This consists of a single scrapbook of John Latty, a sailing captain from Tremont. There are photographs and newspaper clippings of John, his wife and son, and his wife's family, the family of Capt. Levi Rich, also from Tremont. John Latty was captain of the 4 masted sailing ship "Theoline" in the 1920's and 1930's. The scrapbook was loaned to us by Tim Harper, who is a great grandson of John Latty, and reproduced here. [show more]
Description: Souvenir scrapbook of Mount Desert High School, 1951 donated by architect Gregory Cooper, of the building and dedication of Mt. Desert Elementary School. Loose Photographs and clippings included.
Description: Scrapbook of Emily N. Phillips Reynolds with two diplomas of good deportment from teacher Maud Trask and pages of greeting cards sent to family members and a few poetry clippings. Dated Christmas 1897.
Description: Community Improvement Plan Album of the Woman's Literary Club of Northeast Harbor. Contains manuscripts, typescripts, news clippings, photographs, programs.
Description: black scrap book with gold embossed rectangle highlighting “Photographs” on the cover (the photographs have been removed and are in Photograph Album 10
Description: Red Binder: Copies of Commissioners’ Proceedings at Mount Desert, 1808Records of the First Church of Mount Desert, Maine 1792-1867Guide books:The Handbook of Mount Desert; Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island; Chisholm’s Mount Desert GuideTraditions and RecordsStory of Mt. DesertMount Desert, A HistoryMaine Families in 1790Maine FortsOld Hancock County FamiliesInventory of the Towns and Cities of MaineMisc.
Description: scrapbook filled with newsclippings related to WWII, Mount Desert Island and the Smith , Somes and Stanley families. Several references to Hollis Smith, believed to be the owner of the scrapbook and who was the postmaster for more than 25 years at the Mt. Desert PO in Somesville. Articles of interest: (1961) Senator Muskie speaking at the bicentennial celebration honoring Abraham Somes with a stone monument at the site where Somes landed in 1761. (1943) The Boston collier Suffolk went down presumably in a gale with its captain and all 43 crew members. Another article (unknown date) talks about a Bar Harbor man who was aboard the Battleship Maine when it was torpedoed in Havava Harbor. He survived, but that event sparked America's involvement in the war with Spain. [show more]
Description: scrapbook filled with miscellaneous newsclippings related to Mount Desert Island, the surrounding area, items of cultural interest and the Smith Somes and Stanley families.