Description: Copy, letter from Robert Patterson to David Rockefeller, September 23, 1982, re: recommendations for mitigating problems with the garden wall, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden, two pages, Projects for Mr. and Mrs. David Rockefeller, Seal Harbor, ME, 1982
Description: Working Draft Manuscript by the League of Women Voters of Mount Desert Island, 1987 1 extra page 11 in the back Discusses growth, taxes, real estate, environment, jobs , towns, suggestions
Description: Article from June 1982 Down East magazine about stoneworks of Acadia National Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and financed by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Description: Article about 1917 filming of Fox Film Company's "Queen of the Sea" on Sand Beach and along Ocean Drive, from Sept. 1981 issue of Down East magazine
Description: This videotape is a history of the home "Cragsyde", aka Kragsyde, a design of Robert Swain Peabody. The video includes historic photographs and commentary, by Wheaton Arnold Holden. This home was built at Manchester-by-the Sea, Massachusetts in 1884 for George Nixon Black, the same owner of Woodlawn House, Ellsworth, Maine. The house was torn down in 1929. The house was also reproduced during the years 2005-6, using original plans, by a family on Swans Island. Other house in video is "La Tourelle", built ca 1930, destroyed 1947. See Roz Rea for more information about this home and tape - 01/30/2013 [show more]
Description: 1981 Map of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park includes Scenic and points of interest, directory of Island Business and services, and business sponsor advertisements, color
Description: Map in color showing Mount Desert Island, Schoodic Peninsula, Islands in Western Bay, from Les Voyages duSieur De Champlain with annotation in French. A reprint of a 1932 map. Size 22.5" x 28"
Description: Hand-drawn plan of the Carroll Farm showing boundaries, pasture-land, road, house, barn ruins, meadow, fence, ledge, logging area. 8.5" X 9.5"
Description: Bar Harbor Times, “Selects” section. “Historic Houses on View” in Tremont for sesquicentennial. Houses include Bass Harbor LIghthouse Keeper''s Cottage, "Goose Gables," owned by Sam Hamill, and other homes in the Tremont area.
Description: Four-page handwritten letter and envelope with return address, written by Lucie Smallidge (daughter of Laura Richardson) to Mrs. Charles Lanpher (Juanita) and dated September 21, 1988; mentions going to school in Northeast Harbor and values of people in NEH when she was growing up. Mentions effort to see "Goldie"; Lucie's brothers Curley and Galen, sisters Leola and "Skoot," who was married to Don McEachern; and her grandparents Olin and Luch Richardson; her mother, Laura, and Laura's sister Lucretia. Her uncle Olin Richardson had the gas station and store in Town Hill for many years; she had another uncle named Bide Richardson. Describes Lucie's love of music and work with the elderly in nursing homes [show more]
Description: Newsletter for Volume VI, September 1, 1983, No. 1. Describes decision to keep museum open in Sept., painting of bridge by Girl Scouts, fundraising efforts, gifts to Society.