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Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Photos from Searls' 5 & 10 store and 1962 Gay Nineties Ball
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Uncurated Accession
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Events
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Newspaper article retrospectives of 1947 Fire
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Events, Fire
Newspaper article retrospectives of 1947 Fire
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
1967 and 1972 articles from Bar Harbor Times and Ellsworth American on Fire of 1947
Southwest Harbor Revisited: Times Writer reports on 1922 Fire
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Business districts
  • Other, Fernald's Point
  • Other, Sewing Circle
  • Other, Southwest Harbor
  • Various Newspapers
Description:
Articles from various newspapers pertaining to the history of Southwest Harbor. Southwest Harbor Revisited: Times Writer Reports on 1922 Fire, authored by LaRue Spiker Previously archived as 012.FIC.043.8
Waymouth Tercentenary
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Events
  • Other
  • People
  • Places
Waymouth Tercentenary
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
An account of the celebration of the landing of George Waymouth on the coast of Maine. (Scanned copy in part from archive.org)
Great Cranberry Island Fire Signals
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Sign
  • Events, Fire
  • No Copyright - United States
Great Cranberry Island Fire Signals
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
A fire sign for Cranberry Island. This sign tells residents what they should do in case of a fire. It also provides the siren number for certain places on the island.
Peter Butler
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Events, Fire
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
Peter Butler
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Peter Butler sits on ground around water tanks and shovel after a fire.
Interview
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Transcript
  • Events, Fire
Interview
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
granite
Early History of Seal Harbor, 1959, History Claremont Hotel
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Auto
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Claremont Hotel
  • Other, Pemetic High School
  • Other, Seal Harbor
  • Carter, Lyda B.
Description:
12 page typewritten manuscript. early history of Seal Harbor, Jan 1959 with corrections Letter from Mrs. Roscoe C. Marshall (Elsie) to Dianne Ballard Michael correcting Claremont history. Elise's father was Dr. Joseph Phillips who owned the Claremont Michael re history of Claremont Hotel. says Elise Marshall is only daughter of Dr Phillips, owner on sticky note The Claremont Hotel-My Story, 1884-1964 (two copies) who wrote it? 1967 Menu inside of one of the typed booklets Poem about W.H. Ballard by Hilda G. Moe 1969 "Paper Talks," booklet; includes photos of Pemetic H.S. Eastern, Maine, champ. and cheerleaders, 1948. 1950 newspaper article re George William Dolliver: Has had his driver's license for 43 years, since 1908 and car. Letter to Ballard from K. Tracy 1947 postcard from Laurie and Mary Holmes Letter to W.H. Ballard from Don E. Smith, 1947, re Miss Gordon's letter about Bar Harbor fire. [show more]
Memoranda for Regional Director, Acadia National Park from B.C. Hadley, superintendent
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Memorandum
  • Events, Fire
Description:
Memoranda for Regional Director, Acadia National Park from B.C. Hadley, superintendent. Bids to clean up damaged timber and reason for no bid on fire killed timber. 3 pages.
Various Articles Pertaining to the History of Southwest Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Business districts
  • Other, Fernald's Point
  • Other, Sewing Circle
  • Other, Southwest Harbor
  • Various Newspapers
Description:
Articles from various newspapers pertaining to the history of Southwest Harbor. Titles include: A Legend of Southwest Harbor, authored by Mrs. Seth Thornton Previously archived as 012.FIC.043.8
Postal History of MDI
Tremont Historical Society
  • Object, Writing, Notebook
  • Events
  • Other, Structures
  • Places
Postal History of MDI
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
Arnold Krommenohl was a lifelong stamp collector, and in 1995 began gathering stamps, news articles, photos, and other memorabila about the history of the Post Offices of Mount Desert Island.
Rivers Clippings Collection Alphabetical Files
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Events
  • People
  • Places
Description:
1 filing cabinet containing folders with envelopes, loose articles and clippings about local people, families, organizations and events. Compiled by Lydia Satterlee Rivers, who worked at the Northeast Harbor Library under Robert Pyle. The collection was donated by Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Rivers. Files are catalogued by subject. A Abbe Museum Acadia Animal Park Acadia National Park Agnese, Cheryl C. Agnese, Joseph H. Aircraft (historic) Allen, Richard Archeology Artists & Sculptors Ashley, Irving Asticou Inn Astor, Brooke Authors Automobile War B Ballard, Willis H. Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Airlines Bar Harbor Yacht Club Bartlett, Irene Bartlett Island Bass, Robert Beal & Bunker Ferry Beal, David A. Bell, Katie Belmont, Mrs. August Bird Count / MDI Christmas Beamer, Gillian Bigelow, William (Mac) Biological Lab, MDI Blair, Edward McC. Boat Builders Boat Skippers Boats (historic) Bond, James & Mary (Wickham) Bordeaux, Meredith (Bud) Bordeaux, Pearl Bowman, Bob Bryan, Ashley Brzezinsky, Zbigniew Brophy, Keira Brown, Tom Bryant, Roy Bucklin, Horace Burden, William A. M. Burr, Gregory Buildings Businesses, Small Island C Carr, Dennis Caughey, Phil Center Charpentier, Arthur Chasse, Patrick Churches Circus Claremont Hotel Coffin, Ernest L., M.D. Coffin, Steve Cole, Kendra Cole, Mark Coleman, Douglas L., Dr. College of the Atlantic Coombs, Arthur Coombs, Dwight Coombs, Harold Corning, Erastus II Cranberry Club Cranberry Isles Crime Articles Czapowsky, Miro D Damon, Dennis Damon, Herbert L. Dana, Carol Dickey, Charles D. Jr. Donnan, David Dudman, Helen Dudman, Martha Tod Dudman, Richard Durost, David E Eaton, Maxine Eliot, Charles Eliot, Thomas F Fairchild, Julia F. Falt, Gordon Farrand, Beatrix Favour, Edith Favour, Paul Fay, Gertrude Fennelly, Parker Fennelly, William Fernald, Barry Fernald, Jean Fernald, John S. Fires & Fire Equipment Fishing & Fishermen Flagg, Ernest Fremont-Smith, Frances Flye, Flick & Charlotte Frenchboro Foster, Ray & Beatrice G Gardiner, Elizabeth Gates, Thomas S. Jr. Gardens Genealogy Geology Gilley, Mildred Gilley, Wendell Gilpatric, Chadbourne Goriansky, Carola E. Grace, J. Peter Grant, Doris & Carolyn Graves, David Gray, C. Boyden Gray, Inez Great Duck Island Green, Joe Green Mountain Railway H Hadlock, Elmer Hadlock, Wendell S. Hagberg, Karol Hall, Thomas S. Dr. Hamblen, John & Della Hamlin, Clarice & Philip Hamor, Linda A. Hancock County Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations Hansen, Gunnar Harms, John Harrison, Wallace K. Haskell, G. Merrill Haynes, Richard Heckscher, August Heckshire, Claude Higgins, Victor & Ruby Hill, Gerald Hill, Percey History Holmes, Bernard (Bun) Housing, MDI Hylander, Bob I Ice J Jackson Lab Jekyll, Gertrude Jokes Jordan, John Jordan Pond House Jordan, Ruth Joy, Barbara Joy, Lillis K Kelley, Carl E. Mr. & Mrs. Kennedy, Moorhead Kimball, Ben Knowles, Asa Knowles, Lilly Belle Smallidge Knowles Real Estate L Lane, Priscilla (Skippy) Lanpher, Charles W. Lanpher, Juanita Layton, Victor LePage, Laurence Libitzki, Cheryl Library, NEH – Vol. I Library, NEH – Vol. II Library, NEH – Vol. III Art Displays Libraries Liebow, Bob Lighthouses Lippmann, Walter Lunt, Durlin Lynam, Lydia M Maddocks, Grace Mahaney, Kevin Mahaney, Larry K. Maine - Flood of ’87 (April 14, 1987) Maine – 200 years of Maine Housing Maine Coastal Program Maine Sea Coast Mission Massucco, Bart McGiffert, Cushman Rev. MDI Workshop McLean, Phillip & Annie Menzietti, Ivey & Annie Miller, Mimi Salisbury Milliken, Roger Morfit, J. Mason Mount Desert Mount Desert Boys in WWII Mount Desert Festival of Chamber Music Mount Desert Island Mount Desert Public Health Murphy, Maitland Murphy, Maurice Mussetti, Joseph Jr. N Neighborhood House Newman, Kim Newspapers Ninfi, Carlo Nitze, Paul Northeast Harbor O Obituaries P Parady, Bernard (Bernie) Patterson, Barbara N. (Mrs. Robert W. Patterson) Patterson, Robert Peabody, Mary Peck, Louine Peltz, Mrs. John Dewitt Phillips, Augustus Phippen, Les Politics Post Office (Otter Creek) Publishing Pyle, Louisa Pyle, Robert Q Quarries R Railroads Ramsdell, Jay Rand, Henry L. Real Estate Renault, David Rianhard, Richard Richards, Charles L. Richardson, Louise & Doug Rockefeller Family Roth, Hal Russell, Will S Sage, Dewitt Savage, Charles K. Savage, Dianna Savage, Fred Savage, Richard Sawmill in Somesville Schools Scouts Scull, David Seal Harbor Seals Seavey, Jon Serpell, Barry W. Dr. Serpell, Sandra Shaw, Samuel Smallidge, Anne Smallidge, Mr. & Mrs. Earl (Curly) Smallidge, Mazie Smith, Joseph T. Smith, Lucy (Mrs. Richard) Smith, Margaret Chase Smith, Samantha Smith, Stephen & Dennis Solar Houses Somes, Chauncey Somes Sound Somesville Somesville Fire Department Space Spiker, LaRue Sports Spurling, Arthur Spurling, Ted Stanley, Ralph Stanley, Woodbury Stroud, Joan Milliken Suminsby, Kathryn Suminsby, Robert T Tepco Theatre Thomas, Joseph B. IV Townsend, Bill Toy Lending Library (NEH) Tracy, Mrs. Ralph Tracy, Valerie Train, Barbara Tripp, Susan Tyler, Sally V Vinalhaven W Walls, John Walsh, Sean Watras, Victoria Watson, Herb Weinberger, Caspar & Jane Westphal, David Westphal, Gretchen Westphal, Joan Westphal, Mike Westphal, Ruth Whales Wheelock, Morgan Wheelwright, Mary White, Mary H. Dr. Whitehill, Walter Widmerding, John Woman’s Club of Northeast Harbor Wooden Boat Woodward, Charles H. Wright, Jack Wright, Mildred Y Yacht Club, Seal Harbor Young, Nathan Yourcenar, Marguerite Z Zirnkilton, Stephen [show more]
Dirigo Hotel Ruins After the Fire
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Events, Fire
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • In Copyright
Dirigo Hotel Ruins After the Fire
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Dirigo Hotel Fire
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Events, Fire
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • In Copyright
Dirigo Hotel Fire
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Dirigo Hotel Fire
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Events, Fire
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • In Copyright
Dirigo Hotel Fire
Southwest Harbor Public Library
The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Events
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
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.
Roy Salisbury Collection - Miscellaneous
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Events
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Places, Harbor
  • Transportation, Aerostat
  • Transportation, Aircraft
Description:
1. Postcard of a Mallard Drake, bird carving by Wendell Gilley. 3. - 7. Several photographs taken during a sculpture exhibit (Agnes Yarnall). 14. - 20. Other photographs depicting Air Force planes, ca. 1940's. 21. Postcard of Northeast Harbor Landing, Bear Island Light in distance
Greeting cards for Arthur Bunker
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Greeting Card
  • Events
  • People
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Greeting cards for Arthur Bunker
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Collection of 15 greeting cards, most of which seem to be birthday greetings to Arthur Bunker
Collection of photos of concerts at various places on Cranberry Isles
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events
  • Other
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Description:
Collection of photos of concerts at church, town hall, and outside
Exhibit texts and miscellaneous for 2014 displays
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Events
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Anne Grulich
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Exhibit texts and miscellaneous for 2014 displays
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Documents. Exhibit text, labels, photo identifications, and miscellaneous from 2014 GCIHS museum photography exhibit (A). And parsonage house shoes/cape houses exhibit (B) (see also 2015.304.2062).
Vessel "Hurricane" aground on Great Cranberry Island
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Events
  • In Copyright
Vessel "Hurricane" aground on Great Cranberry Island
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Newspaper articles. Article 963 A "Maine's Misty Kingdoms" NY Times August 26, 1984; Article 963 B about the boat "Hurricane" aground on GCI (no date).
"Shark bites boat" 1955
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Events
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
"Shark bites boat" 1955
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Newspaper clipping, 5 Aug 1955, "Shark bites boat" (see items 400-406)
Playbill for the play "Carrie Richardson of Big Cranberry"
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Program
  • Events
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Playbill for the play "Carrie Richardson of Big Cranberry"
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Playbill for the play "Carrie Richardson of Big Cranberry" (see item 446) (3 copies)
Poster announcing play "Carrie Richardson of Big Cranberry"
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Advertising, Poster
  • Events
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Poster announcing play "Carrie Richardson of Big Cranberry"
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Poster, announcing "Carrie Richardson of Big Cranberry" (by Wini Smart and Bruce Komusin) to be performed at Annual Meeting of GCI Historical Society, in GCI church, 8 Aug 2001
Handmade color poster for July 4th picnic by Ruth Westphal, island resident
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Advertising, Poster
  • Events
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Description:
Poster, made by Ruth Westphal, for one of her annual 4th of July picnics, year unknown