Description: Pencil Drawing on parchment, 32x18", showing the division of the estate of Charles W. Eliot on Peabody Drive (aka County Road). Adjoining lots: Abbott and Baltz.
Description: Parchment copy of property of William Frazier on South Shore Road, Northeast Harbor, adjoining Melcher property. Details added (red ink) by Belle Smallidge Knowles. Shows land located off South Shore Road, present day Barnacles Way. Cottages outlined are the Barnacles, Seaward, Reef Point, Edgecove. Names mentioned are Clark, W. W. Frazier, Morris, Melcher, Sibley.
Description: Blueprint of cottage lot of Philip S. Townsend on Huntington Road, Northeast Harbor. Adjoining lots include Williams ("The Ledges") and the Clifton House.
Description: Blueprint of property of Dr. Richard Cabot on Schoolhouse Ledge, Northeast Harbor. Adjoining properties of Kimball & Turner. Attached is a sketching, undated, of the Davis lot on Schoolhouse Ledge. Related to property at 51 Schoolhouse Ledge Road.
Description: Blueprint, 30 1/2x11 1/2", showing north line of Gardiner estate ("Out of the Woods") on South Shore Road, Northeast Harbor. Also shows Corning and Storey properties, near present day Corning Way, intersection with South Shore Road).
Description: Blueprint, 24 1/2x20", of original lot of William Frazier, lots sold to Alice Frazier & estate of Alice Frazier, and proposed division of the remainder of the lot.
Description: Blueprint, 25x15 1/2", of property of Mary Wheelwright on County Road (Peabody Drive), Northeast Harbor. Abutting properties of C. W. Eliot and F. H. Eliot.
Description: Parchment lot map, 25x18", showing Disston property conveyed from Jacob Disston to Effie Disston and adjoining properties of Doane, Newbold, Yarnall, Murray, and Northeast Harbor Golf Club. Printed survey included.
Description: Ink on parchment lot map, 13 1/2x16 1/2", of Smallidge Point lots of Smallidge, Sohier, and Vaughan. Shows Steamboat Co. Building with access road.
Description: Lot plan, 19 1/2x13, of proposed park in Northeast Harbor adjoining properties of Holmes, Kimball, Bradley and Ober. Also mentions I. T. Moore.
Description: Landscape, contour plan of building site, 22x24", one of ink on tag paper, another of tissue (torn/fragile, of property of William Marcus, Jr. in Seal Harbor. tracing cloth, of property of William Marcus Jr., in Seal Harbor. Plan is torn; very fragile.
Description: Booklet, comedy play "In Broad Daylight" by Lyn Blanning, 1928, owned by Alice Marion Stanley, about a sewing circle, listing women who played the six parts, all GC Islanders
Description: 1. Plans for "Garden treatment between Mr. Lamont's and Mr. Milliken's houses", 721-723 Park Avenue, New York 2. Paving plan No. 2 for the garden of Gerrish H. Milliken Esq., 723 Park Avenue, New York
Description: Article about the "Church of the Messiah" sect, lead by G. J. Adams, in Indian River, ME, their pilgrimage to Jaffa in 1866. Material from Carl Kelley
Description: Limited edition map. Edition was 100 copies. This is number 36. Hand colored. Adhered to artist board and lacquered. Includes historical notes and drawings.
Description: Copies of correspondence about the editing and reissuing of George Street's 1905 book "Mount Desert a History" by Rev. Samuel A. Eliot in 1926. Contents include letters of Helen Ranney, George H. Street, and William Sawtelle.
Description: History of Northeast Harbor and an account of the Manchester family. 1 copy includes 1959 forward by Samuel E. Morison and hand notes of Ruth Jordan.
Description: A letter from the acting director of the National Park Service, Arno B. Cammerer, to the Lafayette National Park custodian, George B. Dorr. Cammerer informs Dorr that a proposed road project in Lafayette National Park has been approved. Cammerer believes the proposed plan will provide access to more of the park and states that the planning recognized the importance of keeping some areas remote from the development to maintain their wild character. People Mentioned: E. C. Finney, Frederick Hale, Bert Manfred Fernald, John Edward Nelson [show more]
Description: A letter from Senator George Wharton Pepper to Harold Peabody. Senator Pepper includes a copy of the text from a letter he wrote to Loren Kimball, outlining his position on the construction of roads in Lafayette National Park. Pepper tells Peabody that he feels the Jordan Pond Valley is spoiled but hopes that the Bubble Pond Valley may yet be saved. People Mentioned: George B. Dorr, John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Description: A letter from Barrington Moore suggesting arguments to Harold Peabody for advancing his campaign against the further construction of roads in Lafayette National Park. Moore argues that while roads are necessary for the park to fulfill its mission of providing access to the public, certain areas must be kept wild, not only for the enjoyment of those seeking solitude in nature but also to serve as natural laboratories for scientists. People Mentioned: George B. Dorr [show more]