Description: BOX 1 (record carton box) The Redbooks, 1912-2020 (missing 1913, 1917, 1918, 1948). Now called The Redbook--originally called Directory and Hand Book--these social registers list residents and their contact information, cottage locations and owners, businesses, various transportation schedules, tide charts, advertisements, and important phone numbers. The first book published in 1912 by Stella L. Hill was green, all the rest are red. The Redbook celebrated its 100 anniversary in 2012 and is still produced to this day. [show more]
Description: Advertising booklet of the Rock End Hotel and its cottages. Several exterior photographs of the hotel, the surrounding areas and the island are included, as well as floor plans of the buildings.
Description: Asticou Inn and Cottages, Northeast Harbor, Mount Desert Island, Maine. Advertising booklet of the Asticou Inn and its cottages. Several exterior and interior photographs of the inn, the surrounding buildings and areas and of the island are included.
Description: An article about Brooke Astor's summer home. Interior Design by Mark Hampton, & Nancy Pierrepont. Landscape Architecture by Morgan Wheelock. Photography by B. Brink.
Description: Short article about the simple architecture and interior design of the Marguerite Yourcenar house in Northeast Harbor Yourcenar house, "Petite Plaisance," on Shore Road in Northeast Harbor. Photographs.
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: Article about Bass Harbor Lighthouse published in "The Islander Magazine", July 1982 Item also contains a chronology of Bass Harbor Head Light (photocopy).
Description: Several publications regarding the Shore Village Museum in Rockland, Maine: - "Lighthouse Keeper's Lament", by Ken Black, May 7, 1981 - "The Pilot Psalm", by Ken Black - "Rockland Museum displays Petit Manan Light lens", by Ken Black, March 6, 1983 - "Maine's Lighthouse Museum", by Bill Caldwell, Portland Press Herald, April 3, 1983 - "Lighthouse postcard collection 'mushrooming', says museum here", by Ivy W. Dodd, The Courier Gazette, September 3, 1983 [show more]
Description: Public Health contributions by the summer residents of Mount Desert Island, specifically Mary Dows Dunham, in 1910-1930 regarding the safety of the milk supply. Article published in "Research Reports from the Rockefeller Archive Center", Fall 2002 (p. 10-14).
Description: "Atlantique", Bar Harbor, Fred Savage designed home of Catherine and Robert Barrett is restored with landscape inspired by Beatrix Farrand. Article published in the Bangor Daily News, August 28-29, 1999.
Description: "Breakwater", a Fred Savage designed summer cottage in Bar Harbor, originally built for John E. Kane in l904,is turned into a bed and breakfast home.
Description: Copy of article of John Gordon's interview with Martha Stewart about living in Maine, what she likes to do, places she likes to go, and her love of her home, "Skylands", in Seal Harbor.
Description: Description, with photographs, of the Walter Harrison designed house "Anchorage" built in 1939 for Nelson Rockefeller in Seal Harbor. Owned by Dodie Ford in l979. Published in Down East Magazine, August 1989.
Description: Although their Mount Desert summer home was palatial in scale, the Rockefellers came to Seal Harbor each year to enjoy the simple life. This article describes their life.