Description: Collection of "Prayer Shawl Ministry" brochures, knitting patterns and photographs of prayer shawls, lists of beneficiaries and members emails. Meetings held at Saint Mary's by-the-Sea.
Description: A booklet written by Wini Smart and Bruce Komusin, regarding background information on Hitty Preble, a doll written about by the acclaimed Rachel Field.
Description: Scrapbook with cards, newspaper articles, pictures, announcements, a collection of blank checks, calendar photos, and holiday prints by the Wadsworth family can be found pasted in this wallpaper print book. Scrapbook ranges from the 1940's to the late 1950's album was put together by Lulu Steel Alley, Louis Alley's wife and resident of what is now the Horvath house. From the Horvath house
Description: Houses. Architectural and folk history. This updated 2018 report of investigation summarizes 2013-2017 research into nine Cape-style houses spawned by the 2013 discovery and repatriation of four ca. 1820-1830s shoes concealed in the chimney wall of the parsonage house of the Great Cranberry Congregational Church. The 2014 and 2018 revised report was submitted to the Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Acadia NPS, and GCIHS. Revised version is twenty-two pages with photos and bibliography as of January 18, 2018, and includes findings of a 2015 dendrochronology project. This study of the parsonage Cape-style house with its neighboring Cape-style houses and the separate 2013 study of the nearby ca. 1826 Preble house documents a cluster of historic island houses on the verge of becoming unrecognizable through remodeling. Research reveals folk practices, the oeuvre of local 19th-century house builders; Cape-style design innovations; granite and lumber sources; dendrochronology study; and early 19th-century Bulger and Spurling family histories. One of the cape houses was the birthplace of Civil War Medal of Honor General Andrew Barclay Spurling.; the Preble House was his boyhood home. See also concealed shoe research: 2013.252.1979. See 2018 Chebacco Magazine article, Concealed Shoes and Cape Houses: Artifacts as Agents of the Past by Anne Grulich [show more]
Description: Sketchbook, newsprint pad with pencil drawings by unknown woman artist found for sale at Ladies Aid Fair 2003. Also has notes about dieting and favorite songs. Probably from the 1960s or 1970s.
Description: Six sheets containing five bids by various contractors for construction of new museum building in Somesville for the MDI Historical Society.
Description: Two double sided typewritten sheets containing carbon copies of letters to bidding contractors on new museum building for MDI Historical Society. Letters inform contractors that a contractor had been chosen.
Description: Letter to the donor of a bronze sculpture by Walther Matia in memory of Foster Whitlock . The letter thanks her for her donation of the sculpture to the museum and describes the dedication ceremony.
Description: Flyer advertising the Wendell Gilley Museum Benefit Art Auction and Appraisal Day, Aug. 10, 1990. Auctioned items included a framed set of prints, "20 Birds of Mount Desert Island" by Carroll Sargent Tyson.
Description: technical drawing of the yacht Thermo, Captain Berlin, Southwest Harbor, Maine pencil on brown kraft paper - crease down center. -stored in flat file
Description: A film on DVD about Wendell Gilley, master carver from Southwest Harbor. Title: Gilley: Portrait of a Bird Carver. A documentary story filmed during the construction of the museum built in his honor in 1981. Film by Richard W. Adams, with a 2004 update on the 25th anniversary of the Museum and the centennial of the birth of Wendell Gilley. Running time of 25 minutes.
Description: Construction deck plan for 'Little International,' class boat commissioned by William F. Strawbridge from L. Francis Herreshoff, of Marblehead. Two boats were built by Hinckley. One remains on Mount Desert Island today. The class failed to materialize due to the coming of WWII, after which Luders made their debut. White markings of ship design on black background (white paper on back is blank). Shows design of 28' class boat. Construction plan for design number 77. Drawn or designed by L. Francis Herreshoff in Aug. 1940. Scale: 1"=1'. [show more]
Description: Copy #2 of "Schoolboy Basketball Highlights - Southwest Harbor High and Pemetic High" by Simon Sklar. Undated, but appears to have been written in 1958. Covers period 1908-1957.
Description: All by Adelma Somes Joy: “Somes Sound must have been one beautiful place." Recalls arrival of Abraham Somes, the oak trees on oak hill, Ebenezer Sutton, and Denning’s Pond. "Years ago when we had the telegraph..." Recalls advances in technology, balloons, and flight. Northeast Harbor Women's Literary Club talk , Jan. 30, 1920. Plans to travel abroad, give clothing to naked Africans, open beauty parlor. "That Old Reed House." Mrs. Reed was her grandfather's sister; house near Jim's Cove. "My first recollections of life..." Recalls her grandparents' house in 1838. Also separate essay, "Grandfather's House." Reminiscences of Somesville #6. Recalls naming of Somesville, old roads, school house, industry, and tanning pits. Two Letters from Adelma Somes Joy to Harriet Somes Sanderson, Aug. 10, 1929. recalls Col. Black House in Ellsworth, Episcopal Church at Seal Cove, Bp. Manning, church sales, other historical notes. "Memories" of her father. History of Somes and Richardson families. [show more]
Description: Program The second Subscription Series Summer of 1938 of the Building of Arts, Bar Harbor ME. Includes advertising from a variey of establishments on the island. Has announcement of a black man (African American), a singer and musician
Description: Newspaper clipping of Mrs. Jennie Ailworth's obituary from LaRue Spiker Funeral Notice Folder On Card back: "A Service of The Martins in Bushnell, Ill."