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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.