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Various Photographs of or Related to the Southwest Harbor Public Library Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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Southwest Harbor Public Library Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Southwest Harbor Public Library Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Nell Thornton famously said, in her book, The Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor, “The Southwest Harbor Public Library had its beginning [as the Tremont Public Library] in 1884 when Mrs. Annie Sawyer Downs gathered a number of discarded books from the hotels, mostly paper covered volumes, and placed them on a shelf in one corner of Dr. R. J. Lemont's drug store…” The library was, as were many small libraries on the coast of Maine, started by “people from away,” in other words, summer people. This small library, however, was quickly adopted by native Southwest Harborians, and has grown, in the almost one and a half centuries since its founding, to be one of Maine’s very few five-star libraries, according to the Library Journal Index of Public Library Service. Thornton, Nellie C., Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine (Merrill & Webber Company, 1938, The Southwest Harbor Public Library, 1988) [show more] | ||
The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: In 1892 the ladies of Southwest Harbor gathered together to raise money for land upon which to build a library building and then reported how they raised their dollar..The Dollar Social was the first fundraising event held for the Southwest Harbor Public Library and the poem describing it was famous in the community for many years. | |||
Vesta E. (Spear) McRae House and Original Bass Harbor Library Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Vesta E. (Spear) McRae House and Original Bass Harbor Library Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
Somesville Library Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Somesville Library Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: "The public library stands on the site where a building owned by A. C Fernald and used as an undertaker's shop and for the post-office was burned by lightning in 1891 with considerable loss in money as well as property. The land is owned by Mrs. George A. Somes and is leased to the library association, who built the present library in 1895-6." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 265. [show more] | ||
A Talk About the Southwest Harbor Public Library (1905-2005) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| A Talk About the Southwest Harbor Public Library (1905-2005) Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: This is a transcription of a talk given by Meredith Hutchins as a Southwest Harbor Public Library evening program in 2005. Meredith describes the history of the library from 1884 through 2005 and recalls the people and events that shaped the library. | |||
Southwest Harbor Public Library - The Original Fireplace Screen Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Southwest Harbor Public Library - The Original Fireplace Screen Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Dramatis Personae: Harris - Chloa (Harris) Searls (1906-1982) Mosley - Gordon G. Mosley Mosley - Ronald A. Mosley, Sr. (1919-2016), 1946 Interim Director Southwest Harbor-Tremont Larger Parish Searls - Thomas Searls Jr. (1908-1986) |