Description: Several 3" x 5" photographs of bas-reliefs by Agnes Yarnall LePage (1904-1998). Category "Bas-Reliefs". Ages Yarnall LePage was a sculptor, painter, poet and artistic historian. This collection of photographs was purchased at an estate auction and donated to the library in 1996.
Description: Several photographs of paintings by Agnes Yarnall LePage (1904-1998). Category "Paintings". These photographs are by Edward Quigley, Philadelphia. Ages Yarnall LePage was a sculptor, painter, poet and artistic historian. This collection of photographs was purchased at an estate auction and donated to the library in 1996. Cover/1 - 8: Circus 9: "Bernard, Maine" 10: "Seagulls at Manset" 11 - 22: Florida 23 - 28: Miscellanea ("Katie", "Mrs. Garry", "Mary Magdalene" etc.) 29 - 30: "The Parade" (tempera) 31 -32: Still Life, "The White Feather" 33 - 37: Farm ("Denny's house from the back", "Scene at Dawn") 38 - 44: Northeast 45: "Early Morning/From the Rooftop" (oil) 46: "Paul's House" (oil) 47: "The Storm" (oil) 48: "The Apple Tree" (oil) 49: "The House on the Links" (oil) 50: "The Dairy Farm" (oil) 51 - 52: "Valley Forge" (oil) 53: Giraffes (oil) [show more]
Description: Collection of essays by Frances H. Eliot spanning the years 1871-1954: - Education - Early days at Northeast Harbor - Being a minister’s wife in Denver - An American family at breakfast in the early nineteen hundreds - Borrowed daughters - Leisure - 1941 Inauguration - Golden wedding of S. A. E. and F. H. E. (October 22, 1889-1939) - The glory that is Cambridge - The romance of street names in Cambridge - Patriarchal picnics - I remember Mount Desert [show more]
Description: Author Unknown - Appreciation of the Fine Arts - History of Mount Desert Island - History of Mount Desert Island with notes and drafts - The Manchester Ancestry - Mythology - Thanksgiving B - Local Organizations, by Edith H. Burr - Northeast Harbor Water Company, by Edith H. Burr C - Popper, by Joan Columbe F - Poltergeist? (1986), by Billie Favour - The Easter of My Life, by Edith Favour - The First Americans and the Men from Outer Space, 1974, by Edith Favour - The Herring Gull, by Edith Favour - Mount Desert Families in 1775-76 (1975), by Edith Favour - The Record-maker (1985), by Edith Favour - Robins are singing in the rain, by Edith Favour - September Song (1990), by Edith Favour - Wabanaki Artisans (1980), by Edith Favour - Biography of Jane Addams, by Mildred Fennelly - Biography of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, by Mildred Fennelly - Biography of Diego Velasquez, by Mildred Fennelly - Book Review of Captain Ellsburg and His Books, by Mildred Fennelly - Book Review of "A House Without a Roof", by Mildred Fennelly - Book Review of "The Pilgrim Prince", by Mildred Fennelly - Book Review of "Take Heed of Loving Me", by Mildred Fennelly - Children's Literature, by Mildred Fennelly - Education, by Mildred Fennelly - Madagascar, by Mildred Fennelly - Passamaquoddy, by Mildred Fennelly - Recount WLC Year 1932-33, by Mildred Fennelly - Recount Trip to New York, by Mildred Fennelly - Sandwich Islands, by Mildred Fennelly - Travel, by Mildred Fennelly - Williamsburg, VA, by Mildred Fennelly G - Come to Maine (1941), by Edith S. Gilley - Crab Apple Jelly Made in a Floor Pail (1953), by Edith S. Gilley - Easter, 1953, by Edith S. Gilley - God Bless the Wilkies (1940), by Edith S. Gilley - The Hinkley Tomstone (1940), by Edith S. Gilley - Re*Papers on Local History (1940), by Edith S. Gilley - Written for Stella L. Hill (1941), by Edith S. Gilley - Red Cross History, by Winifred Graves [show more]
Description: H - A review of New York Poetry Week (1940), by Stella L. Hill - Address at Southwest Harbor Neighborhood House to the Mount Desert Island Federation of Women’s Clubs, by Stella L. Hill - Address [to Club by first President] (1908), by Stella L. Hill - Bartletts Island w/ notes, by Stella L. Hill - Bartletts Island and Pretty Marsh (1933), by Stella L. Hill - Building a Home Library, by Stella L. Hill - Echoes of Long Ago, by Stella L. Hill - Hall Quarry w/ notes and photographs (see item 7336), by Stella L. Hill - History of the Northeast Harbor Post Office, by Stella L. Hill - Library w/ notes, by Stella L. Hill - The Yesterday and Today of Sutton Island, by Stella L. Hill - The Mount Desert Island Historical Society at Somesville (1932), by Mrs. L. Elrie Holmes (Mary Holmes) - The Neighborhood House, by Mrs. L. Elrie Holmes (Mary Holmes) - Fine Arts, by Mary Holmes K - Books in Review, by Beatrice Carroll Kelley - Swimming Pool—Tennis Club & Golf Club (1933), by Beatrice Carroll Kelley - Biography of Daniel Coit Gilman, by Beatrice Carroll Kelley - History of Northeast Harbor, by Beatrice Carroll Kelley - A Challenge to the Woman’s Literary Club, by Belle Smallidge Knowles - Doctor Florence Rena Sabin, by Belle Smallidge Knowles - Early History, by Belle Smallidge Knowles - Prima Donna—Albani, by Belle Smallidge Knowles M - World War Radio Stations at Otter Cliffs and Sea Wall (1933), by Dorothy Maddocks - Greening’s Island (1933), by Charlotte Manchester - The Sunday Evening Club (1932), by Charlotte Manchester - The Manchester Family, by A. L. Manchester (Ida I. Manchester) [show more]
Description: 1. WLC Meeting Notes, 1908-1912 2. WLC Meeting Notes, 1912-1919 3. WLC Meeting Notes, 1919-1928 a 4. WLC Meeting Notes, 1919-1928 b 5. WLC Meeting Notes, 1928-1938 a 6. WLC Meeting Notes, 1928-1938 b 7. WLC Meeting Notes, 1938-1950 a 8. WLC Meeting Notes, 1938-1950 b 9. WLC Meeting Notes, 1950-1956 a 10. WLC Meeting Notes, 1950-1956 b 11. WLC Meeting Notes, 1956-1968 a 12. WLC Meeting Notes, 1956-1968 b 13. WLC Meeting Notes, 1968-1979 a 14. WLC Meeting Notes, 1968-1979 b 15. WLC Meeting Notes 1979-1984 16. WLC Meeting Notes, 1984-1989 17. WLC Meeting Notes, 1990-1995 18. WLC Meeting Notes, 1999-2000 19. Patterson Committee Notes, 1928-1999 The Trail of the Maine Pioneer by Maine Club Women (book - pdf available on request) Maine in History and Romance by Maine Club Women (book - pdf available on request) [show more]
Description: - Edith Falt Favour Materials - Julia Manchester Materials - Edith S. Gilley Materials - Agreement btwn WLC & Bar Harbor Banking and Trust re: scholarship, 1951 - Maine Federation of Women’s Clubs Newsletters, 1980-1982 - General Federation of Women’s Clubs –Letter of Inclusion and Awards - General Federation of Women’s Clubs papers - General Federation of Women’s Clubs Community Improvement Program - Correspondence btwn Stella L. Hill and Clarice re: paper - Correspondence btwn Stella L. Hill and Edith re: Soldier Pond - Correspondence btwn Belle Smallidge Knowles and the Washington Highway and The Lincoln Highway, 1915 - Correspondence btwn Jackson Reynolds and Wilma Eaton, 1987 re: scholarship - Correspondence from Ina S. Ober to Mrs. Hill, 1957 - Meeting Notes re: Bishop Doane, Susan Coolidge, et all - List of Subjects of Papers on Local History Written by WLC Members - Stella L. Hill Ephemera of Trip to Pennsylvania - Memoirs of a Lifetime, by A. C. Savage - Today is Mine: poems from the Heart of Maine, by Mabel Demers Hinckley - In Memory of Jennie L. Burr, by Belle Smallidge Knowles - Science Challenges the Educator (Honoring Daniel Coit Gilman), 1959 by Asa S. Knowles - Remarks on the Occasion (Honoring Belle Smallidge Knowles) by Asa Knowles - Memory of Belle Smallidge Knowles - 30th Anniversary of Woman’s Literary Club, 1938 by L. A. Wilson - Newspaper Clippings and Telegrams re: 50th Anniversary - WLC 75th Anniversary Booklet, 1916-1991 - From Versus Composed and Read by Prof. C. H. Foy at 100th Anniversary of Seal Harbor - Outstanding Lecture and Exhibit at the Northeast Harbor Library, 1953 - A Challenge to the Woman’s Literary Club, by Belle Smallidge Knowles (book) - Facsimile of Scrapbook by Belle Smallidge Knowles [show more]
Description: M - Address to WLC , by Julia Manchester - Appointment of Pioneer Club Women (1940), by Julia Manchester - The Azores and the Canary Islands, by Julia Manchester - Banking, by Julia Manchester - Bar Harbor Banking and Trust Company, by Julia Manchester - Churches - Old and New, by Julia Manchester - History of Mount Desert Island (1949), by Julia Manchester - Norman Rockwell, by Julia Manchester - Maine Summer Resorts, by Julia Manchester - The Northeast Harbor Library (1933), by Julia Manchester - Wills, by Julia Manchester - Milling and Shipping Industries of Mount Desert, by Julia Manchester - Islesford Museum (1932), by Julia Manchester - The White Plague (1969), by Julia Manchester P - Flowers for Maxine, by Virginia Phelps - Report of Fall Conference of Maine Federation of Women’s Clubs, by Virginia Phelps - Early History and Person Recollections of Northeast Harbor (1919), by Cora Savage Phillips R - The Duck Islands, by Emily Reynolds S - Untitled, by E. Savage - Titian and Hans Holbein the Younger, by Mabelle S. Savage - Willa Cather, by Mabelle S. Savage - Lighthouses off Mount Desert (1933), by Emma F. Spurling W - Early Yachting Days at Northeast Harbor, by Mary Cabot Wheelwright - Dr. Henry van Dyke, by Mabel Whittaker - Rev. S. S. Drury and St. Paul’s School, by Mabel Whittaker - Admiral Byrd’s Summer House at West Tremont (1932), by Lina MacLean Wilson - Artists, Poets and Authors Who Have Summered at Mount Desert, by Lina MacLean Wilson [show more]
Description: Several brochures: - "School improvement League of Maine - Library and Art Exchange" (1898) - "The Kalends of the Williams & Wilkins Company", Volume XII, Number 10 (1933) - "The Origin of the Names of the City and Towns in Hancock County Maine", by Ava H. Chadbourne (reprinted from the Ellsworth American) (1951) - Christmas Carols (1967) (2 copies) - "State of Maine Song" - Words and Music by Roger Vinton Snow - "The Colby Alumnus, Summer 1972" These items belong to the Woman's Literary Club Collection, Box 7 (Item 7332). [show more]
Description: 1. WLC Notes for Publication in Bar Harbor Times, 1997 2. Misc. Notes, Clippings, Writings, Postcards (Item 7349), Brochures (Item 7350) 3. Scrapbook—Memoranda by Antoinette de Coursey Patterson 4. Patterson Room at the Northeast Harbor Library—dedication, furnishings, photographs (see also item 5544 for individual photographs of the Pattersons) 5. Patterson Room at the Northeast Harbor Library—furnishing list book, case for photographs 6./7. Newspaper Clippings (ca. 1909-1973) Other Items: - Patterson Fund materials (not scanned) - Postcards: see item 7349 - Photographs: see items 7348 and 5544 - Brochures: see item 7350 [show more]
Description: Rations would have been stored in the lifeboat’s emergency kit. This one contains 8oz of dried biscuits. If a boat sunk in the middle of the Atlantic it could be many days before any lifeboats were found, so access to some food could be vital for survival.
Description: Kitchenware. Collection of five kitchen wares: (A) Wooden pounder for pounding foodstuff or packing pickles, etc. (B) Large wooden bowl (crack in center). (C and D): Two grooved wooden paddles for making butter balls. (E) One curved, perforated, tin skimmer for removing cream from milk.
Description: Bowl. White earthenware with red and pink rose clusters (underglaze decals) on interior; exterior has plain embossed scroll work and no rose decals. No maker's marks or ID.
Description: Spoon, silver plated, makers mark: (star) ROGERS & BRO. A1, with daffodil motif on bowl and handle and engraved italic M on handle, from Preble house
Description: Bowl. Red earthenware with beige glaze; green and orange dripped pattern. Made and donated by GCI potter, Lillian Samenfeld Island Pottery which operated in the studio barn next to what is now the Bradley house. Samenfeld was a member of the faculty of the Brooklyn Museum Art School.