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Mt. Desert Island Historical Museum circa 1980s
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Other, Interior
  • c 1980s
  • Somesville, Mt. Desert, Me
Mt. Desert Island Historical Museum circa 1980s
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Interior of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum 1980s.Bare wood shelves, bottles across top sheves. Photographic display of Somesville and Hall quarry ships, with half hull model and brass bell.
Fabulous Radio NBD
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Fabbri, Alessandro, Lt.
  • Other, Otter Cliffs
  • Wentworth,Brandon
  • 1984
Fabulous Radio NBD
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
The story of "how and why Lieutenant Fabbri conceived and developed" the Otter Cliffs Naval Radio Station in 1917, commemorated in the Fabbri Memorial on Ocean Drive. NOTE: PDF available
MDI LWV Bulletin for 1987
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Bulletin
  • 1987
MDI LWV Bulletin for 1987
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Mount Desert Island League of Women Voters Bulleting with President's Message, Financial Report Nominating Committee Report, 1987/88 agenda. Patty Letcher President. Major local issue impact of development, pollution monitoring
Mount Desert Island League of Women Voters Bulletin, April 1989
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Bulletin
  • 1989
Description:
Mount Desert Island League of Women Voters Bulletin List of Members. Among Issues: wetlands, cruise missle over Maine
League of Women Voters Board Manual
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Instructional, Manual, Employee Manual
  • 1989
League of Women Voters Board Manual
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
In League League of Women Voters Board Manual containing Bylaws, Board of Directors, Membership, Managing Money, etc
Arcady Music Festival
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Minutes
  • Other, Arcady Music Festival
  • 1989
Arcady Music Festival
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Arcady Music Festival Board Minutes, Fund raising, Agenda, Budget Organization Plan approved in 1989
Blueprints of Golf Club Renovations
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Reprographic Copy, Blueprint
  • 08-25-1986
Blueprints of Golf Club Renovations
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Blueprints of the Northeast Harbor Golf Club Renovations prepared by Pamela Russell Jessup 8/25/1986
Gladys Butler
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Reminiscence
  • 1989
Gladys Butler
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Audio recording of oral history interview with Gladys Butler. Interview with Alice Long, at the home of Gladys Butler, head of Somes Sound, Butler Road. 1989 Interview originally conducted as part of the Southwest Harbor Library oral history collection.
Elizabeth & Stanwood King: Oral History, Southwest Harbor, ME, part of series conducted by the Southwest Harbor Oral History Society, Southwest Harbor Public Library, 1989
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Reminiscence
  • 1989
Description:
Audio recording of Interview with Elizabeth and Stanwood King.at the home of Mr. King, Clark Point Road, Southwest Harbor. Conducted by Esther Rodick, Southwest Harbor Oral History Society, August 14, 1989
Descriptions of ships
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Specification
  • Other, Ships
  • Stanley, Ralph
  • 1987
Descriptions of ships
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Individual typewritten descriptions and histories of 8 schooners: IRENE AND MYRTLE, ABRAHAM RICHARDSON, CATHERINE, POLLY, A.T. HAYNES, BLOOMER, E.T. HAMOR, HARRY A. BERWIND.
Agenda, VIS
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Agenda
  • Other, Somesville
  • Other, Village Improvement Society
  • 1985
Agenda, VIS
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Agenda for undated meeting of VIS; indicates film to be shown on preserving American Elm.
Will of Virginia Somes Sanderson
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Legal, Will
  • Other, Estates
  • 1/2/1986
Will of Virginia Somes Sanderson
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Will
Obituaries, W.H. Ballard
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Announcement, Obituary
  • Unknown
  • 1980
Obituaries, W.H. Ballard
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Three obituary notices of the death of Willis H. Ballard, May 25, 1980. From Bar Harbor Times, Portland Press Herald, and Bangor Daily News. Facsimile copies of each.
August 23, 1989 Meeting Minutes, Folder #8
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Minutes
  • 08/23/1989
August 23, 1989 Meeting Minutes, Folder #8
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Minutes of a meeting of the Board of Directors and the Advisory Board of the Northeast Harbor Golf Club held on August 23rd, 1989.
Program for Service of Ordination for Joanne E. Stoughton
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Program
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • People
  • 4/27/1985
Program for Service of Ordination for Joanne E. Stoughton
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Service of Ordination to Christian Ministry and Installation to Service in the Mount Desert larger Parish, U.C.C. of Joanne E. Stoughton, William Bigelow, Rosemary Denman, Marvin Ellison, Kenneth Ferguson, Donald Gow, Chrisina Hamor,Wesley Haynes, Charles Heslam, Susan Ingham, Keta Jones, Olive Lockhart, Lydia Lyman, Charles Pugh, Ansley Throckmorton
Hancock County Four Seasons Guide Acadia National Park
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Guidebook
  • Other, History - Cranberry Islands
  • Other, History - Southwest Harbor
  • Other, Tourism
  • 1/1/1980
Hancock County Four Seasons Guide Acadia National Park
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
1980 32 page Hancock County Four Seasons Guide to Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Ellsworth, Bucksport, and Trenton. Eastern Sunshine Guide, with color photographs, map and business advertisements.
Southwest Harbor -Tremont Chamber of Commerce Brochure
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Advertising, Advertisement
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, History - Southwest Harbor
  • Other, Tourism
  • 1/1/1984
Southwest Harbor -Tremont Chamber of Commerce Brochure
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Southwest Harbor -Tremont Chamber of Commerce Brochure, The Quiet Side of Acadia on Mount Desert Island, summer of 1984, includes schedule of events, map, and business advertisements
Recipes compiled by the Ladies of Mount Desert Chapter O.E.S. 1903
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Instructional, Recipe, Cookbook
  • Other, Cookbook
  • Other, Order of Eastern Star (O.E.S.)
  • Other, Recipes
  • 1903/1981
Description:
Recipe book orginally printed in 1903 and reprinted in 1981 by MDI Historical Society. Contains recipes contributed by local women who belonged to OES (Order of the Eastern Star) and many advertisements by local businesses.
Space-Age Defense: Pipe Dream or Protection?
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • League of Women Voters
  • 1985
Space-Age Defense: Pipe Dream or Protection?
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Voter, Vol. 35, #1, a 29-page booklet about Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, Federal Tax Policy, acid rain, and other topics.
St. Mary's by the Sea history
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Bishops
  • Other, Cottages
  • Other, Episcopal churches
  • Other, Justice of Peace
  • Other, Northeast Harbor
  • Other, Sandpoint, Village of
  • Other, St. Mary's By the Sea
  • 1981
St. Mary's by the Sea history
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
St Mary's by the Sea original newspaper clipping. A wooden frame church 1883 picture of it. First stone portion added 1899. Excerpt from A Common House, a book about St. Mary's Previously archived as object Id 011.FIC.66.3
Old Buildings in Somesville
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • 1982
Old Buildings in Somesville
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
"Old Yellow Building" more recently known as the Higgins Store, anitiques store (as of 2011). History of the building, handwritten by unknown person. original copies of newspaper story.
Bicentennial Plans
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • 1989
Bicentennial Plans
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Plans for a book by the Bi-centennial committee
Bass Harbor Marsh: Biologists still don't know the source of all the pollution
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Bass Harbor Marsh
  • Other, Marshall Brook
  • Other, Pollution
  • LaRue Spiker writing for the Bar Harbor Times
  • 8/17/1989
Description:
Article describes results and subsequent action of a 1987 study of sources of pollution in the Bass Harbor Marsh and Marshall Brook. The Worcester Landfill was determined to be a source of leachate. An associate article , "The marsh has been the subject of many studies" follows.
The Fiery Intrusion; The Enormous Snow Plow
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Geology
  • Other, Granite
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • LaRue Spiker writing for Bar Harbor Times
  • 1989
The Fiery Intrusion; The Enormous Snow Plow
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Articles, one page each, are parts 2 and 3 of three part series describing the geologic forces which formed the island of Mount Desert Island. Previously archived as object Id 012.FIC.029.6
MDI's Auto War: Summer vs. Permanent Residents, 1900-1915
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Automobiles
  • Other, History
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Diana Abrell writing for Bar Harbor Times
  • 9/6/1984
MDI's Auto War: Summer vs. Permanent Residents, 1900-1915
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Article beginning on p.17 and continued on p.32 describing the disputes on Mt. Desert Island in the early 20th century regarding the use of automobiles on the Island. Addended to the article is a poem, reprinted from Bar Harbor Life, August 23, 1913, entitled "Automobiles, The Mount Desert Town Meeting. Only initials "H.W.S." [Herbert Weir Smyth] identify the author of the poem.