Description: View of many of the buildings at Mount Desert Rock. The negative envelope reads " No. 3 b., Mr. Newman's Shop, Dwelling House, Tower, Bell Tower, Oil House."
Description: "Mr. Brewer in the tower." View of the lighthouse tower at Mount Desert Rock, with the keepers' dwellings to the right. Standing at the top of the tower is a man, likely Mr. Brewer.
Description: "Sitting Room, North House, Left Hand Side Corner" - View in the living room of the north house (in the double tenement on Mount Desert Rock). Two chairs flank a table in the background, and a sideboard is visible to the left. Photographs are visible on the walls and on the table. A young child sits on the floor in the middle of the room, but he moved during the exposure of the negative, causing a blur.
Description: "Capt. Van Norden's Boat" - A friendship sloop sails off the waters of Mount Desert Rock with four men aboard. To the right a spar buoy leans is visible
Description: Mount Desert Rock Light Station, August 1907. "No. 7, Looking S.E." View from Mount Desert Rock, looking southeast over ledges, several small plants are visible
Description: Garden and fountain in front of the White House in Washington, D.C. A brief history of the White House is printed on the back of the photograph. Hand Colored
Description: Report by the selectmen of Mount Desert, ME on the financial accounts of the town, including lists of expenditures and receipts, for the fiscal year ending January 31, 1905. There are also statements from the treasurer, auditor, road commissioner, and superintendent of schools. The report concludes with an annual town meeting warrant. People Mentioned: F. B. Aiken, James Allen, Annie Ash, Mrs. Robert Ash, Irving Ashley, George D. Atherton, Mae H. Atherton, Edward S. Atwood, Charles P. Babbage, S. W. Babbage, Seth Babbidge, Henry Barns, Fred Bartlett, George Bartlett, Millard Bartlett, N. L. Bartlett, Annie Batchelder, Walter D. Blake, Everett Blanchard, Charles G. Bordeaux, David Bracy, Shirley Bracy, J. H. Branscom, Arthur Brown, S. B. Brown, Charles D. Burr, Roy Burrill, Levi Butler, Charles Butterfield, Robert Campbell, Stuart Campbell, W. B. Campbell, B. W. Candage, A. J. Carter, Annie Carter, Charles Carter, Fronia Carter, Grace Carter, Harry Carter, Lewis Carter, Robert Carter, Benjamin Chittick, Eben B. Clark, A. E. Clement, Amos Clement, Charles H. Clement, James Clement, Ernest Cobb, Harry Conary, George B. Cooksey, Emma Coombs, Joseph Corson, Alice Cox, Palmer Crowley, Mrs. A. E. Danico, Ansel Davis, Charles Davis, Florentine Davis, Frank Davis, James A. Davis, Martin Davis, Cleo Dey, Edward Dickins, W. S. Dickins, Samuel J. Dodge, William H. Dodge, Batchie Dunbar, Leander B. Dyer, George S. Eddy, John E. Falt, H. B. Fernald, Charles Frazier, Howard Frazier, George H. Freeman, Emma W. Frost, Grace Frost, M. R. Frost, Charles W. Garland, Morrel Garland, C. L. Gaskel, John Gatcomb, Adelmar Gilkey, Hattie M. Gilley, Charles Gilpatrick, A. C. B. Gott, Mrs. A. C. B. Gott, D. W. Grace, B. C. Graves, Hattie L. Gray, Mark Gray, William Gray, Gage B. Grindle, R. L. Grindle, William Grindle, Carrie Gushee, George R. Hagerthy, Walter M. Hamor, Harry W. Haynes, Mrs. J. S. Heath, Clifford Herrick, I. W. Herrick, Annie M. Higgins, George F. Higgins, I. C. Higgins, Mrs. E. M. Higgins, Myrtle Higgins, Noreva Higgins, Olivia Higgins, Orrin Higgins, Rubie Higgins, Sidney Higgins, J. C. Hill, E. A. Hodgdon, G. H. Hodgdon, L. E. Holmes, Lawrie Holmes, A. O. Jacobson, Eva A. Jacobson, Edwin Jordan, Charles A. Kencher, Henry A. Keniston, George E. Kenny, E. H. Kimball, Gertrude Knowlton, Mary A. Langley, Charles P. Leland, Ida Leland, Ray Leland, T. E. Leland, Guy Leonard, S. G. Leonard, Mrs. George Lewis, F. H. Macomber, Chester A. Maddocks, A. M. Manchester, Frank Manchester, Mary E. Marshall, Ezra G. Mason, T. M. Mason, L. Laura McCarthy, Pat McComick, James McCrea, Kate Mitchell, C. E. Monohon, A. F. Moore, Robert A. Moore, George H. Morrill, Joseph R. Norwood, Roland Norwood, Daniel Nutter, Frank R. Ober, James W. Ober, Lorin Ober, Otis M. Ober, Cora E. Parker, Fred Parker, George S. Parker, William M. Peckham, H. L. Perkins, Mrs. H. L. Perkins, Arthur Pervear, J. D. Phillips, Nettie Pollard, Edward L. Pray, Fred H. Pray, Lester Pray, Vina Ray, Alvah L. Reed, Edward R. Reed, H. E. Reed, Jared R. Reed, Maynard Reed, Allie Reynolds, A. L. Richardson, Addie Richardson, Arthur Richardson, Benjamin Richardson, Clifford B. Richardson, Cynthia Richardson, David D. Richardson, Emma Richardson, Ezra G. Richardson, Gideon M. Richardson, John Richardson, Listen Richardson, Mrs. Austin Richardson, Mrs. Benjamin Richardson, O. W. Richardson, Olin Richardson, Shepard Richardson, T. M. Richardson, Winfield Richardson, E. C. Robbins, Elsie M. Robbins, Abbie Robinson, Everett Robinson, Howard Robinson, Joseph Robinson, Mary A. Robinson, Harvey Salisbury, Emily C. Sargent, George Sargent, Roderick Sargent, W. Sargent, John Savage, Lewis Seavey, William H. Sherman, Charles P. Simpson, H. L. Smallidge, N. C. Smallidge, Walter Smallidge, B. R. Smith, Bertha Smith, Cornelius B. Smith, Fred P. Smith, Hollis Smith, J. E. Smith, Julius Smith, R. L. Smith, Richmond Smith, S. D. Smith, Madison Snow, A. J. Somes, Alie Somes, Caro M. Somes, Fred H. Somes, George A. Somes, Georgia Somes, John J. Somes, Lewis Somes, J. H. Soulis, Ina M. Spurling, H. Edwin Stanley, George E. Stebbins, George L. Stebbins, F. H. Strickland, George E. Sturks, B. Sylvester, John L. Thompson, Charles Tracy, Mrs. Charles Tracy, S. R. Tracy, Seldon Tracy, Maud E. Trask, Edgar Tripp, Charles Turnbull, George E. Turner, James Varnum, I. E. Videtto, Starratt Videtto, R. W. Wakefield, Daniel Walls, E. G. Walls, Edgar Walls, Elbridge Walls, Luella Walls, Milton Walls, Ralph Walls, W. L. Warren, W. D. Wasgatt, S. Oscar Williams, Marion Wilson, Marion Wooster, Irving P. Young, Veazie Young [show more]
Description: An information sheet comprised of the opinions of hoteliers in resort towns regarding automobiles being allowed in their communities. The original request, made by W. M. Roberts, was to gain insight from the experiences of others ahead of the issue being discussed during Bar Harbor's annual town meeting. People Mentioned: W. M. Roberts, Edward S. Marshall, H. W. Staples, C. H. Greenleaf, Damon Winfield Jr., John Anderson, A. E. Reynolds, W. K. Hill, F. C. Sheldon, H. S. Mudgett, W. S. Cummings, N. J. Murphy, W. E. Carter, G. H. Brackett, Dave H. Morris, A. L. Westgard, C. W. Bickford, L. H. Cilley, P. E. Naylor, G. W. Stearns, James Cunningham, William P. Whitehouse, Edgar Jay Sherman, Frank T. Tyler [show more]
Description: Society edition of The Bar Harbor Record from August 26, 1905 with articles on a recent horse exhibition, parties and other social events, news from Northeast Harbor, and a fictional travel diary from China. Several advertisements are included as well. People Mentioned: Edgar C. Abbott, Lyman Abbott, C. S. Abercrombee, Mrs. C. S. Abercrombee, Elizabeth J. Acton, Mrs. Thatcher M. Adams, Thatcher M. Adams, Thomas Adams, Arthur D. Addison, Francis J. Allanson, Frederick Allen, J. Milton Allen, O'G. Allmand, John de Koven Alsop, Larz Anderson, Mrs. Larz Anderson, Mrs. Nicholas L. Anderson, Mrs. W. F. Angus, W. F. Angus, George Appleby, Mrs. George Appleby, Ann Archbold, Norman Armour, E. E. Auchincloss, Mrs. M. C. Audenreid, Mrs. A. M. Baker, O. M. Baker, M. M. Balethe, Lalph Ballard, Hugo Baring, Mrs. S. D. Barron, S. D. Barron, Llewellyn Barry, Waldron Bates, M. A. Bayley, N. E. Baylies, Mrs. H. S. B. Beale, Truxton Beale, E. E. Beebe, Mrs. J. A. Beebe, J. W. Bell, Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont, W. C. Benedict, H. B. Berry, K. V. R. Berry, Edward Bettens, Mrs. L. E. Bettens, Thomas J. Bettens, Anna Wheelen Betts, Fred Betts, Mrs. W. W. Betts, Mrs. R. P. Birchoff, R. P. Birchoff, Mrs. W. B. Blackwell, W. B. Blackwell, Mrs. DeWitt Clinton Blair, W. P. Blake, Mrs. William H. Bliss, William H. Bliss, Mrs. M. M. Bollou, Mrs. J. S. Bosworth, Mrs. T. J. Bowlker, T. J. Bowlker, G. Boyajian, N. Boyajian, A. Brady, Joseph Bridgham, Mrs. Samuel W. Bridgham, Deborah Brock, Harold Brown, S. A. M. Brown, S. E. Brown, Mrs. S. S. Bryan, S. S. Bryan, Brinton Buckwalter, Henry Budd, Mrs. Henry Budd, Logan Bullitt, D. Wellington Bunker, G. W. Burman, Nancy Bush, Thomas J. Bush, Alfred Butes, Dorothy Butes, Mrs. Alfred Butes, William Allen Butler III, J. Albert Butler, Mary M. Butler, Mrs. Harry L. Butler, Nicholas Murray Butler, W. Butler, Mrs. Cass Canfield, James Carey, Mrs. W. A. Carpenter, W. A. Carpenter, John W. Carroll Jr., H. F. Chace, John Chadwick, Louis C. Child, Anna M. Clarke, H. A. Clay, Harold H. Cleaves, L. Sherman Cleaves, Mrs. A. M. Coats, William F. Cochran, Gifford A. Cockran, Mary Roberts Coles, Mrs. Edward Coles, J. B. Colgan, Mrs. J. B. Colgan, Fred R. Comee, W. H. Conyngham, A. D. Cook, Mrs. A. D. Cook, Mrs. Charles W. Cooper, D. Page Cottan, Paul D. Cravath, Annie Crosby, Flora B. Croseley, A. E. Cummins, William D. Curtis, Mrs. Edwin C. Cushman, Mrs. Walter Dabney, S. R. Dabney, Mrs. Charles Daniels, Charles Davis Jr., Charles Davis, Elizabeth Davis, Harold H. Davis, James H. Davis, N. F. Davis, Pauline Davis, R. Davis, Suzette Davis, W. Davis, Nathlie De Castro, Frederick de Peyster, Katherine Deering, Mrs. A. E. Deering, I. M. Devlin, Mrs. I. M. Devlin, Charles D. Dickey, Mrs. Charles D. Dickey, G. G. Dinsmore, J. Donnelly, Mrs. William P. Douglas, Sybil Douglas, William P. Douglas, Mrs. Henry E. Drayton, Mrs. T. C. Dugan, H. Dumont, Mrs. H. Dumont, A. Butler Duncan, E. Dutilth, Mrs. A. R. Edey, Mrs. J. Pierrepont Edwards, Richard M. Elliot, Mrs. Rudolph Ellis, Rudolph Ellis, Grace Elliston, L. A. Emery, Mrs. L. A. Emery, H. C. Emmet Jr., Henry C. Emmet, Jeannie Emmet, Laura Emmet, Marie Louise Emmet, Mrs. Henry C. Emmet, Watson C. Emmet, Gladys Endicott, Mrs. Robert Endicott, Robert Endicott, Mrs. Henry Lane Eno, Lydia Eustis, Robert D. Evans, W. P. Evans, Mrs. Ernesto G. Fabbri, Eliot Farley, Mrs. Charles Farrelly, S. E. Findlay, Edward Fisher, Augustus Franzen, John Frazer, Mrs. Persifor Frazier, Helen Frith, L. Edward Frith, Louise Frith, C. Frost, Mrs. P. R. Frothingham, P. R. Frothingham, E. B. Fuller, Mrs. E. B. Fuller, J. Austin Furfey, William Garrett, Elizabeth Gilman, Mrs. Henry Glover, George Gould, Mrs. George Gould, C. P. Grayson, E. G. Grob, Ed Grossman, B. S. Guiness, J. Gunderson, A. D. Haddad, L. Haddad, John A. Hadden Jr., Mrs. Ben Ali Haggin, P. P. G. Hall, R. B. Hall, Mrs. Harry Hamlin, Carl Haner Jr., John H. Hanna, Mrs. John H. Hanna, Charles Hargrove, C. C. Harrison, Dorothy Harrison, Mrs. Charles C. Harrison, Mrs. John Harrison, Mrs. T. S. Harrison, T. S. Harrison, E. M. Hastings, James Hawes, Mrs. G. P. Hawes, J. Hayden Jr., Mrs. John B. Henderson, Elsie Henry, Robert Higgins, J. B. Hillard, Mrs. J. B. Hillard, C. Lee Hillyard, C. Hittell, Mrs. J. Holland, Mrs. John Holman, John Hone, John B. Hood, M. G. Hooper, Louis Hosmer, F. T. Howard, Mrs. F. T. Howard, George Howe, Isabella Howland, Mrs. Thomas H. Hubbard, Thomas H. Hubbard, S. Huguenin, J. J. Hull, R. W. E. Hunt, W. R. Huntington, William DeWitt Hyde, Henderson Inches, Louise B. Inches, A. W. Ingersoll, C. E. Ingersoll, Harry Ingersoll, J. H. W. Ingersoll, Mrs. C. E. Ingersoll, Sturgis Ingersoll, Susie Ingersoll, J. Irjens, Mrs. C. Olive Iselin, Mrs. Thomas Jackson, Lucy Jacobs, Mrs. A. E. Janapolski, F. A. Jellison, Morris K. Jesup, Francis Howe Johnson, Mrs. Francis Howe Johnson, S. Johnson, E. R. Johnstone, Hinton Jones, Roy H. Jones, J. I. Kane, George Karst, M. T. Kavanagh, Mrs. M. T. Kavanagh, Mrs. O. L. Keene, O. L. Keene, C. Keller, Dorothy Kelley, Anderson Kelly, Mrs. Anderson Kelly, Mrs. John S. Kennedy, Mrs. S. H. Kerbaugh, S. H. Kerbaugh, Mrs. S. Kerr, J. L. Ketterlinus, Charles A. Keucher, W. T. Kimball, David James King, G. G. King, Mrs. H. M. Kinsley, Wilfried C. Klamroth, Mrs. W. P. Knapp, W. P. Knapp, Harry C. Ladd, May Ladd, Susan Ladd, Lucius S. Landreth, E. M. Larkin, F. F. Larkin, Francis Lathrop, Marion Lawrence, Mrs. A. R. Lawrence, Mrs. William Lawrence, Elizabeth J. Lea, Francis J. Lea, Mrs. George H. Lea, P. Lee, Mrs. James Leeds, Mrs. Warner M. Leeds, Samuel W. Levis, Alfred Holmes Lewis, Mary I. Lewis, Mrs. Francis A. Lewis, Mrs. Philip Livingston, Philip Livingston, Sue Logan, F. L. Lombard, S. S. Lombard, W. B. Lord, Mrs. Arthur Lund, Frances Lurman, Gustav Lurman, Katherine Lurman, Mrs. Gustav Lurman, Fred C. Lynam, Mrs. I. C. Lyon, W. H. Macey, Mrs. George H. Mackay, Pauline Mackay, A. W. Martin, Mrs. E. Wallace Matthews, Frederic May, E. H. McCullough, Mrs. E. H. McCullough, J. Frank McFadden, T. A. McIntire, Emory McMichael, Mrs. Walter McMichael, Mrs. P. H. McMilan, Edward B. Mears, Mrs. Edward B. Mears, Otto Merkel, George S. Merriam, Douglass Merritt, A. Meserole, Mrs. J. V. Meserole, Stephanie Metz, J. Michael, Mrs. J. Michael, Mrs. Foster Miliken, E. Tripp Miller, George N. Miller, Helen L. R. Miller, Katherine C. Miller, Mrs. George N. Miller, Mrs. J. W. Miller, Harriet Mills, Weymer Joy Mills, C. Mitchell, Mrs. G. H. Morgan, Edward Morrell, Mrs. Dave Hennen Morris, Mrs. Gouverneur Morris, C. W. Morse, Glenn Tilley Morse, G. L. Murphy, D. J. Neeman, Florence Neilson, Mrs. Robert Neilson, M. J. Nenson, Dorothy B. Netting, George H. Netting, L. G. Niles, Dorothea Norris, Charles Norris, C. T. Nortemann, Eleanor R. Norton, Gertrude Norton, Gustavus Ober Jr., Frances Ogden, H. J. Orr, Mrs. E. A. Osgood, Amy Otis, Mrs. Frank Otis, Howard Page, Mrs. Howard Page, Alfred Palmer, Mrs. Alfred Palmer, George S. Patterson, Mrs. George S. Patterson, Effie Pearson, Mrs. George L. Pease, George Wharton Pepper, George Perkins, Mrs. C. L. Perkins, Robert F. Phifer, Mrs. Amos R. E. Pinchot, Mrs. A. E. Platt, Mrs. R. W. Pomeroy, R. W. Pomeroy, H. Kirke Porter, Mrs. H. Kirke Porter, Laura J. Post, Jack Potter, Mrs. James Potter, R. S. Potter, Cornelia Prime, J. D. Prince Jr., J. D. Prince, Mrs. J. D. Prince, Mrs. J. V. L. Pruyn, Joseph Pulitzer, G. Purviance Jr., Mrs. M. Taylor Pyne, Percy Rivington Pyne, Madeline Rafter, J. L. Rand, Margaret Rand, Mrs. Arthur Randolph, Mrs. Samuel C. Reed, Samuel C. Reed, T. Chesley Richardson Jr., Mrs. T. C. Richardson, T. C. Richardson, John J. Ridgway, Mrs. John J. Ridgway, C. E. Riggs, Mrs. C. E. Riggs, Edw. H. Ripley, Mrs. E. H. Ripley, Caryl Robert, C. Roberts, Graham Roberts, Mrs. C. H. Roberts, J. A. Robin, Mrs. Moncure Robinson, T. G. Rosengarten, H. S. Ross, Maurice C. Rumsey, Mrs. A. F. Schauffler, Mrs. William Jay Schieffelin, William Jay Schieffelin, J. J. Scott, Elizabeth Seaton, Baroness de Saint Seigne, F. R. Senneckson, Mrs. William F. Sheehan, William F. Sheehan, Mrs. Gardiner Sherman, John B. Shober, Mrs. John B. Shober, William Siminson, E. H. Simons, E. E. Skinner, Mrs. E. E. Skinner, Fisher Sloane, F. O. Small, C. J. Smidth, R. Smiley, Armide Smith, Everett P. Smith, Horace Smith, J. Emlen Smith, M. L. Smith, Mary D. Smith, Mrs. Horace Smith, Mrs. J. Emlen Smith, Mrs. M. C. S. Smith, Rhoda Emlen Smith, Llewellyn Randolph Snowden, Amos Sperce, H. B. Sprague, A. Stafford, George Stafford, L. E. Sterns, Annie B. Sterrett, Emma J. Sterrett, L. S. Stevens, William Rhinelander Stewart Jr., William Rhinelander Stewart, Horace Stokes, W. F. Storm, A. Frost Strout, Frank Sturgis, Mrs. Frank Sturgis, J. F. Sweet, C. F. A. Tabbott, Eleanor Tabbott, Mrs. J. Talfree, Louise Taylor, Mrs. J. Madison Taylor, A. M. Tenney, Addison Thayer, Mrs. Addison Thayer, C. C. Thomas, J. C. Thompson, Mrs. Augustus Thorndike, J. S. Thorpe, C. L. Tibbetts, Mrs. C. L. Tibbetts, George Tohor, Aileen Tone, Anita Tone, Esther Tone, Katherine Tone, Mrs. S. J. Torrance, M. E. Torrey, Eugene Townsend, F. E. Townsend, May Townsend, Mrs. F. E. Townsend, Mrs. C. J. Train, Mrs. Charles R. Train, C. Trask, C. C. Trowbridge, L. S. Tuckerman, Mrs. L. S. Tuckerman, George E. Turnure, Mrs. George E. Turnure, Frederick Van Tine, Harold Vanderbilt, Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Emeline G. Vernam, W. H. N. Voss, E. E. Waples, Booker T. Washington, Arthur Weeks, Mrs. Francis L. Wellman, Mrs. Arthur Welman, Allen West, Theo. S. West, Joseph A. Whitaker, A. White, Mrs. William R. White, William R. White, Charles A. Whiting, Helen Hay Whitney, Mary Whitney, Payne Whitney, William C. Whitney, J. F. Whittaker, Eliza C. Whyte, Louisa Hollingsworth Whyte, Mrs. Lucius K. Wilmerding, G. Wilson, M. A. Wilson, Margaret Wingate, Mrs. Buchanan Winthrop, Julia Wise, Adolph G. Wolf, D. T. Worden, Mrs. D. T. Worden, Julian Wright, Fanny Young, G. Young [show more]
Description: Envelope and 2 Letters from Attorney John A. Peters Jr. to his client, William P. Preble, about Sanford vs Preble. Envelope postmarked 16 Apr, letters dated 15 Apr 1901 and 20 Dec 1901. Peters thinks he arranged favorable settlement with Sanford, and his remarks seem to indicate that Preble (age 90) is slightly confused about the settlement.
Description: Letter: G.M. Richardson to William Preble's daughter, Fannie, 14 Apr 1901, relating that Richardson feels the opposing lawyers took advantage of Preble's age and blindness in the settlement of Sanford vs Preble. Transcribed.
Description: Letter: William P. Preble to Wm. P. Preble (Grandson), 21 Sep 1900; suggesting that some lots the senior Preble had previously deeded to Wm. H. Preble, his now dead son, be sold by the grandson, his father's Illinois estate administrator, to effectively prevent trespassing by Sam Sanford and A.B. Birlem. Transcribed.