Description: PDF Contains: Newspaper article by Herbert T. Silsbuy II, The Ellsworth American, February 1, 2001 Location of the Drs. Fulton house and offices in Ellsworth, Maine, 1881 Annotated map of the city of Ellsworth, Village Plan No 2, Atlas of Hancock County, Maine, published by S.F. Colby & Co., 1881 Two photographs of the Drs. Fulton House and Office in Ellsworth
Description: Eleanor Ruth Mayo died on January 30, 1981. Her executor, Ruth Moore, made a gift of Eleanor’s photographic collection in 1988. The Eleanor R. Mayo Collection of more than 772 images consists of negatives, contact sheets and prints, many of which are photographic copies Eleanor made from various family collections belonging to Mount Desert Island residents, now long dead. Eleanor spent years on historical research that she compiled in the extensive indexes (Mayo Volume I and II) also part of the collection. I was the library archivist when the gift was made and subsequently worked on cataloging the collection from 1988 until 2006. Meredith Rich Hutchins Director of the Southwest Harbor Public Library (1981-1986) Southwest Harbor Public Library Collection of Photographs Archivist [show more]
Description: Usage courtesy of Great Cranberry Island Historical Society (gcihs.org), From “Cranberry Road: Great Cranberry Island 1919-1950” by Wini Smart, Bruce Komusin and Betty Hartley, Copyright 2002, 2003 by Wini Smart.
Description: According to Edmund's grandson Ted Gilchrist, Edmund lived at the Claremont for a time and put in the small dormer with flat roof that appears between the leftmost dormer and the large main gable. The small dormer does not appear in more recent photos.
Description: Edward Lothrop Rand, the brother of photographer, Henry L. Rand, was born to Edward Sprague (II) and Jane Augusta “Jennie” Lathrop Rand on August 22, 1859 in Dedham, Massachusetts. Edward attended the private school of J.P. Hopkinson in Boston and graduated from Harvard in the class of 1881 (Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude) and Harvard Law School in 1884. He married Annie Matilda Crozier, a school teacher, on June 29, 1893 in Boston, Massachusetts. Edward and Annie lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His law office was at 53 State Street, Room 740 in Boston. Edward and Annie Rand lived on the Henry Clay and Henry Seaton Rand estate in the house at 120 Elm Street next door to the main house. He was a member of the Champlain Society. Edward Lothrop Rand died on October 9, 1924. [show more]
Description: Members of the community and the staff at the library were sad when age and disease caught up with the last of the original library trees and it had to be removed. Local artist, Philip Clifton Rich (1941-), whose family were long time residents of the area and who had grown up within walking distance of the library, made the beautiful desk and chair from the wood that could be saved from the tree. He and his niece, Kristin Rebecca Hutchins (1959-), daughter of former librarian Meredith Rich Hutchins (1938-2016), also made several wooden cutting boards from the very last of the wood. The boards were raffled for the benefit of the library. [show more]
Description: The Friendship sloop Gladiator, built in 1902, worked in Maine waters for more than two decades, then wandered to Chesapeake Bay and New Jersey for several decades more. In 1973, it came back to Maine for good. From the April/May 2006 issue of Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors