Description: Black and white photograph of LaRue Spiker crouched next to two dogs. She is outside in a yard with shrubs and the bottom of a house behind her. She would be 48 years old. Caption on the back reads: LaRue's Family, Southwest Harbor, Maine 1960
Description: Letter (1966) from Dora Parker (1875-1973) to Harold Earl Burnham describing early dances in Southwest Harbor . Also includes references to the Jesse and Grace Parker house and barn on Clark's Cove in Southwest Harbor. Mentions Lawrence and Eleanor Newman and Susie King, who was Manset postmistress for many years.
Description: Vol X in Northeast Folklore Series, published in 1968. Tall tales and anecdotes about MDI families (Manring, Smallidge, Carroll, Holmes, Somes, Storer and Reed among them) and particularly about Jones Tracy (1856-1939).
Description: Maine Highway Commission Right of Way Map , 1960. Belonged to Virginia Somes Sanderson. Location of the properties not indicated. Notations on the map include: "JDR" and "Bus Garage".
Description: Three unknown men removing trees between Old Somesville Firehouse and Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen's Building Dec 8, 1960
Description: a-Life magazine for Nov. 29, 1963; photograph of President John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 on cover. Editorial: The President's Empty Chair Articles: Murder of the President; Lyndon Johnson, the 36th President; Intimate Memory of John Kennedy b- Life Magazing October 2, 1964, The Warren Report: How the Commission Pieced Together the Evidence ,
Description: Oil painting of Surf at Seawall, by Howe D. Higgins. Inscription on the back: "Surf at Seawall, Mount Desert Island, Me, Painted by Howe D. Higgins, 1963, At Harborside Studio, Southwest Harbor, Maine.
Description: This map show roads, boundaries, woods, fields, and land ownership by name (Richardson, Vollmer, Russell, Grant, Pray, Harkins. The state highway is given as "258" Size: Approx. 30" X 20" Needs folder.
Description: Prepared for the Summer-Year Round Resident Planning Committee of the Mount Desert Chamber of Commerce. Includes land use maps of Otter Creek, Seal Harbor, Bracy Cove, Northeast Harbor, Somesville, Pretty Marsh. The overall objective was to find ways and means to guide the coourse of change while maintaining the basic character of the community; find ways to achieve growth of the permament summer community. Includes study of hotel/inn and restaurant facilities to see if they are adequate. Among the findings: lengthening season, more older permanent summer residents; need for basic recreational facilities, expansion and modernization of Bar Harbor airport; light housekeeping rental cottages;better shopping and marine services on Sea St. in Northeast Harbor [show more]