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You searched for: Year start: 1900Year end: 1910Date: 1950sSubject: PeopleType: Document
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
"Reef Point Gardens Bulletin" Pamphlet
Bar Harbor Historical Society
  • Document, Pamphlet
  • People
  • Places, Garden
  • 1953-06
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Undetermined
"Reef Point Gardens Bulletin" Pamphlet
Bar Harbor Historical Society
Description:
Pamphlet titled "Reef Point Gardens Bulletin" published by the Max Farrand Memorial Fund, Bar Harbor Maine in June 1953. Vol. I, No. 10. Has a black and white image of a flower in a vase titled "Hybrid Tea Rose Innocence". Photograph by Sewall Brown.
Northeast Harbor Lodge No. 208 F. & A. M.
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Photograph Album
  • Organizations
  • People
  • 1954
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
Cover: History of Northeast Harbor Lodge No. 208 F. & A. M. Northeast Harbor, Maine. From November 3, 1903 to December 31, 1954 Compiled and written by William S. Holmes, Post Master & Secretary 1. Short history of Northeast Harbor Lodge No. 208 (typescript) 2. Petition Form 3. Application for Degrees 4. Notices 5. Vouchers 6. Northeast Harbor Lodge No. 208 room 7. L-R: Ed Walsh and Dave Stanley, receiving the "Horace E. Bucklin" award 8. L-R: Ed Walsh and Dave Stanley 9. Dave Stanley, Secretary, Northeast Harbor Lodge No. 208 [show more]
Life of Belle Smallidge Knowles
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Legal, Legal Documents
  • People
  • Kathryn F. Knowles
  • 1952
Life of Belle Smallidge Knowles
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
A descriptive biography by the subject's granddaughter. missing
1994 Menue Guide for Mount Desert Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • Other, History - Hulls Cove
  • People
  • 6/1/1953
1994 Menue Guide for Mount Desert Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
1994 Menu Guide for Mount Desert Island
Service of Rededication for the Somesville Union Meeting House
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Program
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • People
  • 10/31/1954
Description:
bulletin for Rededication service for the Somesville Union Meeting House includes order of service and participants include: Organist Marjory Hayward and committee Brown, Leavitt, Nutting and Hollis Smith
Proposed Parish House of the Somesville Meeting House Society
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Program
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • People
  • 11/1/1958
Description:
Program showing proposed Parish House for the Somesville Union Meeting House includes drawings of plans, layouts, costs and financing
Fair Acres Dairy receipt
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • Other, History - Hulls Cove
  • People
  • 6/1/1953
Fair Acres Dairy receipt
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
cream eggs Hulls Cove, Maine June 1 1953 D. Waymouth in account withFair Acres Dairy Milk raw and pasteurized telephone 183W-1 H.C. Whitney May -15 milk, 3 eggs total $5.89 1994 Menu Guide for Mount Desert Island
Minutes of Meetings of Ocean Lodge #140 I.O.O.F.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Organizations
  • Other, Clubs
  • Other, History - Northeast Harbor
  • People
  • 1955
Minutes of Meetings of Ocean Lodge #140 I.O.O.F.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Black ledger with Minute Book embossed on cover. Includes record of minutes of Ocean Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows from 1955 - 1961
Minutes of Meetings of Ocean Lodge #140 I.O.O.F.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Organizations
  • Other, Clubs
  • Other, History - Northeast Harbor
  • Other, Odd Fellows
  • People
  • 1950
Minutes of Meetings of Ocean Lodge #140 I.O.O.F.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Black ledger with Minute Book embossed on cover. Includes record of minutes of Ocean Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows from 1950 - 1955
The Somesville Parish House Fund
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • People
  • 1/12/1959
The Somesville Parish House Fund
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Letter asking for gifts and pledges to the Somesville Parish House Fund from the Finance committee and John G. Minter, minister . Robert W. Patterson, Sr. had drawn plans for the structure.
The Union Meeting House Worship Schedule
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Schedule
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • People
  • 7/5/1953
The Union Meeting House Worship Schedule
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
1953 Somesville Union Meeting House Summer Worship Schedule Card from July 7 to August 25. INcludes Miriam J. Higgins, Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Tertius Van Dyke, Horace Leavitt, John G. Manter, George B. MacDonald, John N0ss, Appleton Lawrence+-, John B.Whiteman
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from C. G. Wellington
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • Wellington - C. G. (Clarence George) Wellington (1890-1960)
  • 1957-03-04
Description:
Letter typed on Kansas City Star letterhead from Executive Editor Clarence G. Wellington thanking Wendell Gilley for carved birds sent on behalf of Frank S. Land.
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Goodwin J. Knight
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • Knight - Goodwin Knight (1896-1970)
  • 1957-04-08
Description:
Thank you letter from the Governor of California thanking Wendell Gilley for a carving of a quail, which he placed on his desk in the Governor's Mansion.
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from J. Edgar Hoover
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • Hoover - J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972)
  • 1957-05-01
Description:
Letter typed on FBI letterhead and signed by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in gold ink thanking Wendell Gilley for the gift of carved bobwhites sent on behalf of Frank S. Land.
Letter from Frank S. Land to Wendell H. Gilley.
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • Land - Frank S. Land (1890-1959)
  • 1956
Description:
Letter from the founder of the Order of Demolay, Frank S. Land, instructing Wendell Gilley to choose and send carvings to Harry S. Truman, Dr. Frank Stanton, president of CBS, Leon Leonidoff, producer of Radio City Music Hall shows, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and White House aide Bernard Shanley. The cost of the five carvings was $250.
Marr - Louise H. Marr Vaccination Certificate.
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Government, Government Records
  • People
  • U.S Public Health Service
  • 1950-08-15
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
  • No Copyright - United States
Marr - Louise H. Marr Vaccination Certificate.
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
A smallpox vaccination record for Louise Marr. She got vaccinated for small pox because she was traveling to South America. Marr got her vaccine in 1950, but there is stamps on the certificate from 1952.
Marr - Louise H. Marr Personal Identification Card.
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
  • People
  • Boston Police Dept.
  • 1952-05-28
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
  • No Copyright - United States
Marr - Louise H. Marr Personal Identification Card.
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
A personal identification card for Louise H. Marr's trip to South America. This identification record has her finger prints from both hands and her signature. This record was administered through the Boston Police Dept.
In Memory of Samuel Atkins Eliot 1862-1950
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Announcement, Obituary
  • Events
  • People
  • 7/16/1950
Letter from Harvard to Saltonstall re: shark
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Events
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • 1955
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Letter from Harvard to Saltonstall re: shark
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Letter, from Henry B. Bigelow, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, Cambridge MA, 6 Sep 1955, to John L. Saltonstall, identifying man-eating shark that attacked boat
Deer Hunting License for Mary Alice White
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Permission, License
  • People
  • Recreation, Hunting
  • 1954
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Deer Hunting License for Mary Alice White
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
State of Maine deer hunting license for Mary Alice White 1954
Hopsital Bill 1953
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • Businesses, Medical Business
  • People
  • 1953
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Hopsital Bill 1953
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Hospital bill, 2 Jul 1953, Mt. Desert Island Hospital to Perley D. Stanley, 7 days, $71.95
The Life of Belle Smallidge Knowles
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Memorabilia
  • People
  • Kathryn F. Knowles
  • 1952
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
The Life of Belle Smallidge Knowles
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Biography of Belle S. Knowles by her granddaughter Kathryn as part of her Gould Academy senior thesis.
Remarks on the Occasion of the Retirement of Mrs. Belmont
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
  • People
  • Mrs. Gerrish H. Milliken
  • 8/9/1955
Description:
Agnes Milliken's notes for a speech at library trustee's meeting on the retirement of Mrs. Belmont and succession of Mrs. Fay as Trustee Chairman.
Receipt Book of Ocean Lodge Independent Order of Oddfellows
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Organizations
  • Other, Clubs
  • Other, History - Northeast Harbor
  • People
  • 1/1/1954
Description:
Soft Covered Cream Ledger Receipt Book Treasurer to Financial Secretary Ocean Lodge No. 140, I.O.O.F. Located at Northeast Harbor, Maine 1941-1954
Iola Klaas and LaRue Spiker on Their Position in Regard to the Stockholm Resolution of Peace Statement, c. 1950
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Declaration
  • Events
  • Other
  • People
  • Klaas, Iola
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1950 c.
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Iola Klaas and LaRue Spiker explain the background and importance of the Stockholm Resolution of Peace, which was passed at the World Committee in Defense of Peace. They emphasize the dangers of atomic warfare, particularly for children, and advocate for the outlawing of the atomic bomb. People Mentioned: O. John Rogge, Rockwell Kent, Albert Kahn, Johannes Steel, W. E. B. DuBois