Description: Two women bending over a small folding table. Pictured is a yard sale held in the Meiers’ yard in Somesville on July 18, 1981 to benefit the League of Women Voters Annual Fund Drive.
Description: Hand drawn map of eastern section of the U.S. Nancy Kandutsch made the poster for a League of Women Voters “Save the Clean Air Act” display at the Bar Harbor Flower Show in September of 1981.
Description: Two men and a woman seated at a table. John Jerabek, Louise Gilbert, and Skip Greenlaw are speaking at an MDI League of Women Voters public meeting on “An Act to create the Maine Energy Commission” on October 29, 1981 at the Bar Harbor YWCA
Description: Woman standing talking with seated people. Pictured are Gail Meier, Edna Hysom, Arthur and Phyllis Charpentier at an MDI League of Women Voters public meeting on “An Act to create the Maine Energy Commission” on October 29, 1981 at the Bar Harbor YWCA.
Description: Women seated at a table before an audience. Gial Wright (and Eleanor), Terry Beamer, Mollie Reynolds, Tibby Russell, and Joan D’Agostino address policies and problems of Maine’s educational system at a public meeting sponsored by the MDI League of Women Voters in Bar Harbor in January, 1982
Description: Women seated in an audience. Gail Meier, Sue Meyers, Jackie Russell and Tibby Russell attend a meeting about policies and problems of Maine’s educational system sponsored by the MDI League of Women Voters in Bar Harbor in January, 1982.
Description: 3.5 X 5 color photograph. Vertical format of Golden wheat against blue-grey sky. View point is from bellow wheat looking up. Wheat bends from lower right corner to upper left.
Description: 3 X 5 color photograph of field of golden wheat against grey-blue sky (Horizontal Format). Various Brown plants dot midground and horizon.
Description: 3 X 5 color photograph in vertical format of milkweed gone to seed. Several golden pods on one stalk against grey-blue sky. Gold wheat along bottom of photo. Milkweed stalk extending from right side of photo.
Description: 3 X 5 color photograph in vertical format of milkweed gone to seed. Many pods on one stalk. View from bellow. Against blue sky, Half an inch of wheat field showing at bottom, with two white structures on horizon to left of base of stalk.
Description: 5 X 7 color photograph of landscape with red bushes, possibly blueberry bushes, in foreground, Golden grasses and yellow and green trees near horizon, Faint blue mountains in the background, under a grey sky with white clouds. Horizontal format.
Description: Mount Desert Herald “The Corsair’s Retreat - A Story of the Slave Trade” June 21, 1983. Previously accessioned as **0862, object Id 012.FIC.043.1
Description: Ellsworth American “COA 10 Years Later - Has Come a Long Way” by LaRue Spiker February 28, 1980. Peviously accessioned as **0858, Object Id 012.FIC.043.12
Description: Ellsworth American “Property Values Go Higher and Higher” by John R. Wiggins October 23, 1986. Previously accessioned as **0826, Object Id 012.FIC.035.1
Description: This was published as a booklet in 2012 byt the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Not scanned because published as booklet. Published in Points East Narratives of New England by Rachel Field New York, 1980
Description: Man standing by a boat on wheels with League of Women Voters banner. Boat is MDI LWV float in the Bar Harbor 1980 4th of July parade. Bruce Leighton loaned the boat and drove the truck that hauled it.
Description: Parade float for Mt. Desert Island Historical Society passing Main street stores. Bango and fiddle player (Ralph Stanley) in 19th century costume on end of float. Women in costume in back of float with spining wheel and Museum sign. Float pulled by red truck. Crowd watches from the sidewalk.
Description: Parade float for Mt. Desert Island Historical Society passign down Main Street Bar Harbor. Truck carrys Somesville Historic District sign. Crowd watches from the sidewalk.
Description: Parade float for Mt. Desert Island Historical Society passing down Main Street Bar Harbor. Truck carrys Somesville Historic District sign. Crowd watches from the sidewalk.
Description: Parade float for Mt. Desert Island Historical Society passing Main street stores. Bango and fiddle player (Ralph Stanley) in 19th century costume on end of float. Women in costume in back of float with spining wheel and Museum sign. Float pulled by red truck. Crowd watches from the sidewalk. Person’s hands clapping in air.
Description: Parade float for Mt. Desert Island Historical Society passing Main street stores. Bango and fiddle player (Ralph Stanley) in 19th century costume on end of float decorated in red, white, and blue. Women in costume in back of float with spining wheel and Museum sign. Float pulled by red truck. Crowd watches from the sidewalk.
Description: Dr. Virginia Somes Sanderson inside MDI Historical Society Selectmen’s Building. Seated at table, wearing blue shirt under long sleeve white blouse with blue pattern. Surrounded by museum exhibits.