The Max Farrand Memorial Fund, Bar Harbor, Maine. Copyright, 1953, by Reef Point Gardens Corporation.
Date:
1953-06
Place:
Bar Harbor
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.
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]
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
Description: cream eggs Hulls Cove, Maine June 1 1953 D. Waymouth in account withFair Acres Dairy Milk raw and pasteurizedtelephone 183W-1 H.C. WhitneyMay -15 milk, 3 eggs total $5.89 1994 Menu Guide for Mount Desert Island
Description: Black ledger with Minute Book embossed on cover. Includes record of minutes of Ocean Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows from 1955 - 1961
Description: Black ledger with Minute Book embossed on cover. Includes record of minutes of Ocean Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows from 1950 - 1955
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.
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
Wellington - C. G. (Clarence George) Wellington (1890-1960)
Date:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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