Description: Scrapbook filled with miscellaneous newsclippings related to Mount Desert Island, the surrounding area, items of cultural interest, WWII and the Smith, Somes and Stanley families.
Description: 10" x 12" x 2" red and black scrapbook; pages are pre-numbered. Contains hand-written journal entries reflecting on the War and her personal and professional life, including number of eggs gathered each day. On each page are pasted newspaper articles (some undated) about the War and maps showing allied positions and movements; many of these obscure the journal entries and some have come loose and are in a separate folder (014.FIC.007.2). Ration stamps and ration books are also pasted in the scrapbook. On p. 42 is a (wedding?) photo. of Marion and Dick Cobb, 1942 [show more]
Description: Scrapbook of information from Eden Maine (now Salisbury Cove) with genealogies and reproductions of newsclippings, obituaries, letters and other documents. Letter asking not to divide town of Eden. Names include: Bunker, McFarland, Lurvey, Richardson, Somes, Heath, Boynton Haynes Cemetery in West Trenton Obituary Mrs Charles Pettingill, 1907 Dates of events recorded by Nicholas Thomas, Salisbury Cove 1837-1844 Appears to be photocopies of documents [show more]
Description: Green Binder: Copies of Reminiscences of Somesville by Adelma F. Joy; Excerpts from The Island of Mount Desert Register 1909-1910;Annual Report of Town Officers of Mount Desert, ME 1900,1910, 1911 - 1916 and 1931
Description: Scrapbook with clippings about Mount Desert Island. Numerous articles about high school basketball, the Schooner Thomas W. Lawson, and Liberace. May have belonged to Somesville Postmaster Hollis Smith.
Description: Scrapbook kept by Mrs. Emily Savage with newspaper clippings of poetry, life events for the Savage family (obituaries, marriage announcements, etc.), recipes, remedies, and newspaper articles related to Mount Desert Island and popular culture. A few examples include: a Civil War era fractional currency 25-cent note, obituary for Herman L. Savage, golden wedding anniversary celebration of Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Savage, image and description of a medal commemorating the departure of the Atlantic fleet, and an article about Abraham Lincoln. [show more]
Description: Scrap book of Eastern Star newspaper articles, newspaper photos, installation program booklets, finances, speeches, photos of individuals, Jeptha Chapter Southwest Harbor and Harmony Chapter, Grand Chapter items. Most clippings do not have dates Scrapbook of Constance Robbins, Bar Harbor Maine
Description: This is a hardcover scrap book measuring 8 x 10 inches. The front cover is embossed with a raised picture with a parrot on a hanging ring, a cat, flowers and 2 borders. The trademark stamped on the inside front cover reads, "Mark Twain's Scrap Book, registered April 23rd, 1878" published by "Daniel Slote & Co." On the next page, is a faded inscription which reads in cursive, "Lucie F. Somes, Mount Desert, Maine, Nov. 1881". Next, there is a four -page index set up alphabetically with several entrees in cursive. Some examples of entrees are: Doctor and Judge 16; Boston Men Killed 5; Captain W. T. Ober 16; and Pillow lace making 18. The rest of this book is a compilation of newspaper clippings from many places. Several of the clippings have information which relates to the Somes family or of Mount Desert Island. For example, "Memorial Day at Somesville"; a column entitled, Then and Now (for the Mount Desert Herald) dated Nov. 2, 1885; and "Death of John W. Somes of Mount Desert". There is a beige grosgrain ribbon inside which is used as a marker. [show more]
Description: Clippings from Yarmouth Light, Bar Harbor Times, and other memorabilia in plastic covers. Shows old Stotesbury estate on Frenchman's Bay, Bar Harbor, where landing dock constructed. Compiled by Judy Gerrish.
Description: Book, blue cloth-bound album in memory of Diane Barrow-Clark, prolific blogger on the HittyGirls and HittyForEveryone Yahoo groups; the first half of the album records many of Diane's Hittys, and where they were sent after her passing; the second half records items donated to GCIHS, including Hitty Cranberry and Hitty Diane, and their all their accessories donated in Diane's memory to the museum (see item 1340 and 1928).
Description: Contains mostly newspaper clipping re Marion's relatives and friends from Islesford and elsewhere. Also items regarding her teaching career. There is an especially interesting story about the Islesford Bait Shed in the late 1930s or early 1940s