Description: Sight Seeing and Ferry Schedules, Beal & Bunker Inc. Cranberry Isles, Maine The old Mail Boat Srervice aboard the Island Ferry, Islesford Historical Cruise aboard the Sea Princess Mail Boat and Ferry Service aboard the Sea Queen
Description: Menus from Elmwood Hotel, Waterville, Maine (Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Dinner, Initiation Banquet, Phi Delta Theta, 1911, 1912 Gray's Inn, Jackson, NH (Washington's Birthday), 1920 The Hamiltons, Bermuda The St. George, Bermuda Huntoon's Tavern, Brunswick, Maine Hotel Heselton, Skowhegan (First Maine Cavalry Fourth Annual Banquet, 1894) Hotel Heselton , Skowhegan, 1894 to commemorate the initial trip on the Skowhegan and Norridgewock Electric Road, Reunion and Banquet of U.K.E. A, 1895, and Somerset Association, First Maine Cavalry, 1894 Lawrence House, Augusta ( Farewell Lunch for 76th Maine Legislature, Xmas 1913) Imperial Club, 1895 Chef A. G. Cookson was donor's great great uncle. [show more]
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: This old leather-bound ledger has the number "4" on the back binding. It measures 13 and one quarter inches in length by 8 inches wide and 2 inches thick when closed. There is a black scalloping line around the perimeter of the front cover. There is a pattern of "x" shapes on the binding with black lines wrapped around the shapes. The entries are in cursive and the dates range from 1806-1821although the years are not necessarily set up chronologically. At the top of each page is a date and a name with three columns to the right with headings. One of the headings seems to designate a book reference and another a count. On the left side of each page are years in graduated order by which transactions are listed. It appears that most of the entries deal with supplies and work payments. [show more]
Description: letter from Charles Dickey to E.R. Welles regarding the history of the A Class. Very complete. Many names listed beyond what I have put in under People Previously accessioned as 007.127
Description: copy of certificate given for winning the L. Francis Herreshoff rating rule trophy and picture from magazine of A class sailing boats (undated) Previously accessioned as 007.141
Description: Eight-page, hand-written letter and poems from C.E. Oak (?) to Mrs. Somes. Letter was among objects that had been given to the Somesville Union Church.
Description: Woman’s Literary Club program for 1951-1952. Mt. Desert, Maine. Picture of the Somesville library on the cover. “Marjory Hayward” written on the inside cover. Previously archived as object id 016.FIC.001.40.c
Description: This folder contains information sent to MDIHS in connection with an exhibit of W.H. Ballard photographs, held from 1998 through 2006. It includes: 1. Letter, to Diane Ballard Michael from Charlotte Singleton, 10-18-2006 2. Letter and Notes, to Ann Mazlish and Jaylene Roths, 6-4-1998, from Diane Ballard Michael. Includes biographical notes from Michael related to a future book on her father, W.H. Ballard. 3. Biography, W.H. Ballard, 5" x 7" card 4. Manuscript, "Captain Bert Gets His Coot", a story by W.H. Ballard, ca 1976 5. Notated manuscript, biographical information about W.H. Ballard, author unknown but probably Diane Ballard Michael 6. Exhibition notes, exhibit at University of Maine, January-February 1967, photographs of W.H. Ballard 7. Letter and manuscript, to Jaylene Roths from Diane B. Michael, 8-3-1999, includes "Brief Biography W.H. Ballard Mount Desert, Maine" by Diane B. Michael [show more]
Description: Obituary of Marian Lawrence Peabody, author of "To Be Young was Very Heaven," and summer resident of Bar Harbor and Beech Hill. Doesn't mention when she died
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]