Description: Documents pertaining to rug making. (A) Report of the Maine Seacoast Missionary Society for the year ending 1927. (B): Nine items of correspondence pertaining to the Cranberry Island Hooked Rugs program started by the Seacoast Mission, letters date from 1901-1902. The hooked rug program was one of the first cottage industries, the Seacoast Mission took completed rugs to New York for sale
Description: Document, photocopy, 2 sheets, essay starting "My mother's interest in Cranberry...", by Mary Cabot Wheelwright, about Mrs. Andrew C. Wheelwright's efforts for GCI, including donating to the church the Sarah Whitman stained glass window, the bell, and the parsonage; paying to restore the pulpit and chairs, helping to settle the site of the Town Dock, and hiring Mrs. Schrifgrisser to teach the children games and handcrafts. Transcribed. Also included is a 2019 letter from an Eliot family descendant, Alexander Goriansky, with with Eliot family genealogy and a copy of a letter published in "Letters from Elizabeth Cabot, Vol. III, Boston 1905". The letter is about Mrs. Cabot's visit to GCI August 8, 1900 to view the new stained glass window in the church: "...It is one of Mrs. Whitman's beautiful wreathes, with gorgeus reds and blues and enough white to show them off, laid on a white Greek cross, on the arms of which is the inscription. The church is absolutely bare, but well colored as to the walls...." Goriansky states that 100 years later, he lived upstairs from where the window's creator, Sarah Wyman Whitman, had lived from 1880-1904 (#77 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston), and that she was very fine designer and maker of "stained" glass windows. [show more]
Description: Exhibit at the Northeast Harbor Library, "Arms of the Past", provides a fascinating look at the firearms & other artifacts that shaped & changed local history.
Description: A brief record of their origins and activities. Typed by Samuel A. Eliot from a manuscript belonging to Chad Kilpatrick given to Bob Pyle by Eleanor H. Kinney in 1988.
Description: Invitation to and program of the dedication of the Louisa V. Garden Room during Dedication Week in August. Members of the Mt. Desert Garden Club and members of the Conrad family spoke at the event.
Description: For this article, Anna Carr is interviewed about the recent opening of the new Northeast Harbor Library which was primarily funded by private donations. Description of some rooms and services. Photograph of Elisa Hurley, Children's Librarian, with students. Published in "Bangor Metro", August 2008
Description: Address to Northeast Harbor Library corporation and board members at the dedication of the new building on Joy Road in August 1950. Mr. Pepper, one of the first trustees and was actively involved in fund raising activities.
Description: Address given by Mrs. Rodman Fay (Gertrude), Chairman of the Northeast Harbor Library at the dedication of the new building in August 1950.
Description: Christmas Card sent to library supporters and friends at the start of the Capital Campaign for building and endowment. The card is an Ellen Kappes screen print from an initial Architectural drawing.
Description: Letter to Charles Savage from Robert Pyle at the request of Mrs. Fairchild, Library Board Chairman, regarding Gordon Falt's extensive contribution to the library as Vice-Chairman and Vice-Chairman in 1940-1950's. Citation included.
Description: A paper delivered before the Woman's Literary Club of Northeast Harbor regarding the first Northeast Harbor Library. The original manuscript in in the Woman's Literary Club Collection.
Description: Agnes Milliken's notes for a speech at library trustee's meeting on the retirement of Mrs. Belmont and succession of Mrs. Fay as Trustee Chairman.