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You searched for: Date: 1940sPlace: [blank]Subject: Structures
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Tracy Cottage
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • S. E. Tracy
  • 1945
Tracy Cottage
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Rough sketch of 2 level floor plan of the Tracy Cottage. Note indicating inking done by BSK (Belle Smallidge Knowles).
Three Postcards of Bear Island Lighthouse
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • 1945
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Three Postcards of Bear Island Lighthouse
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Description:
Three real photo postcards of Bear Island Lighthouse affixed to a repurposed envelope. On all of the postcards the lighthouse is identified using blue ink. One postcard bears the additional inscription: "Our view from the point." The backside of this paper was at one time the exterior of envelope sent on June 4, 1945. Information about the sender and recipient can still be read. The return address has been cut, but the envelope was sent to Mrs. Edwin Corning, Northeast Harbor, Maine. Mrs. Corning spent her summers on a point at the mouth of Northeast Harbor [show more]
Mount Desert High School
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • Structures, Institutional, School
  • Frank Irving Cooper Associates Architects
  • September 1948-1949
Mount Desert High School
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Elevation, wall detail in class room, first floor electrical plan, ground floor heating plan 1 list of equipment ordered
Wooden laundry agitator stick
Tremont Historical Society
  • Object, Maintenance, Laundry Agitator
  • Other, Household items
  • Structures, Commercial, Shop, Laundry
  • 1940s
Wooden laundry agitator stick
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
Wooden forked stick used for stirring or agitating laundry in a laundry bucket.
Photograph of The Briars
Bar Harbor Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • 1940 c.
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Photograph of The Briars
Bar Harbor Historical Society
Description:
Black and white photograph of the water-facing elevation of The Briars, a summer cottage located along the Shore Path. The Briars was built in 1881 and was designed by architect William Ralph Emerson. The original owner was J. Montgomery Sears, but it was later owned by Evalyn Walsh McLean.
House for Mrs. Jerome Knowles
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Projection, Plan
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • George Savage
  • 1943
House for Mrs. Jerome Knowles
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Exterior parchment sketch on mat board, 20x14", of house for Mrs. Jerome Knowles. See also Item 2479.
John Stillman "Little Reddy" Photograph Album
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Photograph Album
  • Events
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Farmhouse
  • 1947
Description:
Box 1 1947 Little Reddy: 1 photo album -- stages of dismantling and rebuilding of a cape cod farmhouse from Oak Hill Road which was relocated to Route 3 near Little Harbor Brook. Ca. 120 BW photographs, several duplicates.
Letter to the Southwest Harbor Public Library from Charles Morris Young
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Young - Charles Morris Young (1869-1964)
  • 1948-11-27
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
On letterhead printed with "Hares Lane Radnor Pennsylvania", the letter reads: Nov 27th 1948 To the Southwest Harbor Library Southwest Harbor, Me, I believe you have a painting of the old Clark Wharf which I loaned to the library years ago. This painting is still my property and I have [illegible] decided to present to the library [?] permanent possession. I only ask['ed' struck out] it be treated with respect and not sold or bartered. Painting of this size and character of mine have sold around $2500.00 and I consider this a good example of my work. If the Library committee decides to accept it for its permanent collection I would like a formal acknowledgement Very sincerely yours, Chas. Morris Young I would suggest that the painting be cleaned with a little ivory soap and cold water this will not harm it. Very likely the frame would be improved by regilding with a coat of regular gold paint or powder. C.M.Y. [show more]
New Buildings at Jackson Memorial Laboratory
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1949-02-15
  • In Copyright
New Buildings at Jackson Memorial Laboratory
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
The Kebo Valley Club Race Track is visible behind the newly constructed buildings at the Jackson Lab. Originally the site of Robin Hood Park.
Macfarlan/Preble house renovation
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • 1944
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Macfarlan/Preble house renovation
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Renovation of the Macfarlan house ca. 1947. The woman on the left is Robin Freeman’s grandmother, Dorothy Macfarlan, the woman with the dog leash is unknown, Mickey Macfarlan with the necktie, and then Robin’s mother, Dorothy Freeman. Rose Wedge’s house is hidden in the shadows on the right.
Postcard of Preble house 1947
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • 1947
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Postcard of Preble house 1947
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Photo (postcard), Old Preble House -Cranberry Isles, postmarked Cranberry Isles 22 July 1947, 1 cent stamp, postcard reads "This is the house mentioned in "In God's Pocket" by Rachel Field. We must get the book & read it. 7/22/47" sent to Mrs. John E. Nichols, Route 3, Quakertown, PA.
The One Hundredth Anniversary
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Program
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
  • Congregational Society of Mount Desert
  • 7/21/1940
The One Hundredth Anniversary
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Program from services commemorating the organization of the Congregational Society of Mount Desert
Thurston's Wharf
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • 1946-08
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Thurston's Wharf
Southwest Harbor Public Library