Description: Letter 1A - Rev. Charles Elliott Harwood was the pastor of the Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church from 1894 to March 22, 1897 when he died suddenly. Letter 1A: Statement for Mission work on the Cranberry Islands. Toward the $700 needed to purchase and repair the church property on Cranberry Islan Island (some $500 of which has already been given or pledged) we contribute the amounts opposite our names to be transmitted for this purpose to Rev. Mr. Harwood, the resident mission by:xxx Bishof $5.00; Merril E Gatel? $5.00; Lucius G. Pruitt $5; A.V.A. Nimter? $5.00; and a couple of others paid to Mr. Harwood Sept. 1, 1896. [show more]
Description: Notice, handwritten, 4 sheets of paper, 4 pages per sheet, 14 pages total, to the voters of the Union Meeting House, from William Preble, by Carrie M. Richardson, clerk, about legal meeting of the stockholders, 18 Jun 1897
Description: Certificate of Marriage between John H. Hamor of Cranberry Isles Maine and Sadie B. Cleoses of Steuben Maine, at Steuben on 21 November 1894, signed by Robert Sutcliff, Pastor, Methodist E. Church Milbridge; with elaborate color illustrations; framed
Description: Pew 21 in the Union Meeting House, formerly owned by Wm. P. Preble and given to C. E. Harwood for use of the people in 1896; with the death of Harwood 1897, the Pew reverted back to Preble, and Preble, at the request of A. C. Wheelwright, did verbally allow him right to claim said Pew [thus apparently causing legal inaccuracies]. Preble now conveys the pew to Mrs. Frances A. Spurling. Signed by Wm. P. Preble December A.D. 1898, witnessed by Carrie M. Richardson and Lucinda Fernald [show more]
Description: Letter 3 of 3 from William H. Preble to his father William P. Preble on Chicago Rawhide MFG Co. (Chicago) letterhead. One page with transcription.
Description: Letter 2 of 3 from William H. Preble to his father William P. Preble on Chicago Rawhide MFG Co. (Chicago) letterhead. Three pages with transcription.
Description: Record of American and Foreign Shipping (New York ) for Schooner Lizzie Maud #8446: A: pale blue envelope; B: Certificate to Master on Delivery of Ship's Register and Papers pertaining to Benjamin H. Spurling and the Lizzie Maude of Portland, ME, Consulate of the United States of America has delivered to him the Register and Papers for the schooner 24 July 1890; C: statement of fees paid $3.79.
Description: Collection consists of three boxes of archival files donated by the Seal Harbor Library pertaining to the history of Seal Harbor village and Acadia National Park. An itemized summary of each boxes' contents is enclosed in each box. Photocopy of a photograph of summer cottage Gray Cliff under construction. Caption reads Grey Cliff 1895, I.H. Green.
Description: Letter to M.L. Allen from F.P. Musiet, of Blue Hill. November 4, 1897. In reference to his support for Allen’s Republican Party nomination for County Commissioner. Previously archived as 011.FIC.41.1, old accession **0432
Description: Letter to M.L. Allen from C.E. Parker, of Bucksport. April 20, 1897. In reference to Allen’s Republican Party nomination for County Commissioner. Parker is not ready to pledge support. Previously archived as object id 011.FIC.41.1, old accession **0448
Description: Letter from Edwin Mead at New England Magazine to Rev. Samuel Eliot about comisioning an article on early explorers of the New England Coast.
Description: Letter from Franklin W. Hooper at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Science to Rev. Samuel Eliot about his lecture the evening before. Inviting him to give him a lecture the following year to a group of Harvard men.
Description: Ephemera: Framed poster inviting the citizens of Mount Desert to a Republican Rally in Otter Creek on Sept. 2nd. Speakers at the rally were T.R. Simonton, Esq. and A.P. Wiswell, Esq. Probably dates to the 1880s-1890s. Every line of type is different. Fine example of a typesetter's skill. A gift to the Historical Society in honor of Louisa Kennedy. Poster dimensions: approximately 13 1/4" wide by 20" in height.
Description: Framed letter from Capt. John Francis Hodgdon to Frank Leslie Hodgdon. Two frames glued back to back showing both sides of paper through glass. Typed transcript of letter in object file. Donor info - This is the last letter written by my grandfather Capt. John Francis Hodgdon. It was written to my father, Frank Leslie Hodgdon. Capt Hodgdon was lost with his ship the Theodore Dean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina a few week later.
Description: Photographs of Old Ships from Collection of Miss Mary Wheelwright. Scrapbook with photographs of yachts and sailboats and photocopy of "Early Yachting Days at Northeast Harbor" written by Miss Mary Cabot Wheelwright. Shows family and friends aboard the Hesper, trips to islands, the Cranberry Club, scenes of the harbor in Northeast Harbor. 1. M. C. Wheelwright at age 17 2. M. C. Wheelwright at age 21 3. Captain Stanley 5. Mary Wheelwright 9-10: Northeast Harbor, 1894 13-16: Aboard "HESPER" 22: Steamboat 23-24: HESPER 25: Branscom's Wharf 26: Tennis Club 28: Teakettle Party aboard HESPER; from left to right: C. Hemenway, L. Stevenson, A. Greenough, C. Hardy, Mary Wheelwright, K. Thompson, G. W. Peabody, M. Scull 29: Bear Island from Clifton Dock; HESPER in background 30: Dirt trails through woods; goats in pasture 31: Bottom center: Hamor Home, Cranberry Isle, as seen from the Cranberry Club 32, 34: HESPER 35: Probably NORDICA 37-39: Gott's Island 40: Woman on boat 41: Young child 42, 44: Wheelwright float 43: Cranberry Club, 1896 45: Landing in Cranberry Pool for a picnic at the Club, 1896 53-56: R.K.R., K.T., Northeast Harbor to Long Island, 1913 58-61: Penobscot River, 1902 62-66: Yacht ALOHA 67: Mackerel Fleet in Cranberry or Southwest Harbor 69-71: Coaster "Fannie Earl" 74: Wheelwright Point seen from Clifton Dock. Bear Island is center right, c. 1884. 75: Probably the Corning's sloop HARRIET 77: Boothbay 79: HESPER 82: North Haven 83-86: Boothbay, September 1903 87, 88: Portland 89: September cruise off Beverly Islands 90: Southwest Harbor [show more]
Description: Scrapbook of Emily N. Phillips Reynolds with two diplomas of good deportment from teacher Maud Trask and pages of greeting cards sent to family members and a few poetry clippings. Dated Christmas 1897.