Description: The Seaside Inn reunion booklet prepared for the first reunion of employees and guests. Although the buildings are gone the memories remain.
Description: Contains accounts of a trip to Japan, where Susan Dillon & her husband had a audience with Emperor Hirohito. Scan: cover, first pages only
Description: Short autobiographical sketches of contacts with notables as Claus von Bulow. Somerset Maugham, Sir Harry Oakes, Clement Freud, and a nameless bootlegger. Scan: cover, first pages only
Description: Autobiographical account of a trip to Venice, staying at the Gritti Palace Hotel on the Grand Canal (with 3 photographs). Scan: cover, first pages only
Description: (A) Deane Spurling Whitney 10/2/1994 obituary; (B) Ida M. Spurling obituary 4/5/1994; and (C) wedding announcement for Harold Spurling & mabel Ingersol of Lynn.
Description: Building Partnerships for a century, the Knowles Company celebrates 100 Years in the Real Estate business. This insert describes the beginning of the Co. until 1998. See Item 2177
Description: Several newspaper clippings from the New York Times (March/April 1992) about Brooke Astor's 90th birthday celebrated in Manhattan. Included is a personal recollection of the birthday celebration written by a Northeast Harbor friend of Mrs. Brooke Astor.
Description: Republication of Bar Harbor Record news items in Bar Harbor Times, . Compiled by Deborah Dyer of the Bar Harbor Historical Society, 3/16/2000.Listing of people who were in town in connection with various building projects. Rober Amory and W.R. Emerson;Waldron Bates in connection with the new Kebo Valley Club House.
Description: “Ralph Richardson - Tending to the rich: a lifetime of caretaking.” Article from Days and Nights on Mt. Desert Island. June 1992. Story about Richardson, a caretaker for wealthy summer residents for 43 years.
Description: Through the exhibition "History on Birchbark : The Art of Tomah Joseph, Passamaquoddy", the Haffenreffer Museum presents Native Americans with their cultural objects.
Description: Biography of Beatrix Farrand with intensive review of early focus on landscape design, her mentors, her developing philosophy of gardening.
Description: A booklet containing the history of the Asticou Inn. It is dedicated to The Savage Family, Builders and Caring Innkeepers Through Three Generations.
Description: Article about the friendship of artist Thomas Eakins and physicist Henry Rowland, summer resident of Seal Harbor, while Eakins spent the summer painting Rowland's portrait. 2 copies.
Description: Maine works of Thomas Cole, leader of the Hudson River School, during the mid-1980's. Photographs of his etchings included. Signed article by author. From "Record of he Art Museum - Princeton University", vol. 49, number 1/1990
Description: John Wilmerding, Northeast Harbor summer resident combines his professional experience as museum curator (National Gallery) with academia (Dartmouth and Princeton). Article from "Princeton Alumni Weekly", Dec. 5, 1990
Description: A small newsletter representing MCHT, that is dedicated to protecting land essential to the character of Maine. "A Tribute to Bob Suminsby" of Northeast Harbor is in this copy.
Description: Carl Little was asked to tutor Brooke Astor in the French language, she wanted to brush up on it because she was considering a trip to Paris. He enjoyed her very much.