Description: A home recorded videotape that includes video footage of a presentation by Ralph Stanley and Jaylene Roths at a public meeting, probably in 2000. Tape label indicates that the tape is the "Property of Mary Jones".
Description: Black binder containing background information about Somesville Homes for 2007 Walking Tour, Brochure, Historic District Status. Includes maps, descriptions of homes and owners (Richardson, Somes) and copy of newspaper article (no source or date) about razing Somesville Post Office.
Description: An audio walking tour of Southwest Harbor, Maine, with Ralph W. Stanley, produced and narrated by Mary Jones. Audio may be heard through the multi-media link attached to this record. Available in CD format for playing on a portable CD player or CD computer drive. This audio tour is available for sale, with an accompanying hand drawn map, for $12.95. All rights are owned by the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Extra copies for sale are located in the Research Room, lower shelf, left, on the window side of the room. [show more]
Description: This transparent glass bottle is 4 inches tall and has a circumference of 5 inches. Without the stopper, the bottle is 3 and a half inches tall. The bottle has Dupont's Parfum imprinted on it.
Description: This clear glass bottle has the letters The Bayer Company, Inc written vertically on the sides. It is 2 and three quarters high and has a circumference of 4 and a quarter inches. The bottle is missing a top and has some dark stains on one side.
Description: This old glass bottle is 3 and three quarters high. There is no top. The circumference is about 5 inches. The neck is curved but the rest of the bottle is rectangular in shape. The base is 1 and a half inches by three quarters of an inch. It is transparent but the glass has a light green tint. Going up on one side is "3 -in- one oil co." and "Three In One" on the other side.
Description: This brown bottle has part of a label on it. The remaining letters in the title of the label are: YDE MERCK . Under this appears RMALDEHYDE). In the upper right hand corner of the label is written: S-.3643. The directions on the label instruct the user on how to handle formaldehyde. The shape of the bottle is round.
Description: This small glass bottle has a light green hue with a frosted look. It is translucent. The top is missing. It is 4 inches high and 3 inches round. It doesn't stand up straight by itself.
Description: This light green bottle (soft mint color) is 8 inches high with a circumference of almost 8 inches. The height of the neck is about 2 inches. At the center of the base is a stamped mark which looks like a zero in a square. The bottle has 12 faces, each one measuring about 11/16s. There are several scratch marks. There is no top present.
Description: This bottle has part of a label. You can read the words "Olive", "C.M.Brown & Co.", "Hammond St.", "Pharmicists", and "Bangor, Maine". The bottle is 9 and 3/4 high. It measures about 12 inches around the middle of the bottle. There is a cork top present. The neck is 1 and 3/4 inches tall. There are four 2and 1/2 by 7 and 1/2 inch "arch ways" embossed on the faces of the bottle. There is a residue of dirt on the inside of the bottom and on one side. The glass is somewhat cloudy. [show more]
Description: This rectangular-shaped glass bottle3 inches high and 4 and 1/2 inches around. It has a metal top which has several black scratch marks in its silver color. The base has numbers which appear to be 2138 with a 7 and 3 underneath separated by an imprinted image.
Description: This small old glass bottle is amber-colored. There is no top present. It has 4 faces, each measuring 10/16s of an inch by 1 and 3/4 inches. On one side is written what looks like BOERCKE & TAFEL NEW YORK.
Description: This brown bottle measures almost 4 inches with its cork stopper in place. There is a label which has "E.M. Tower, Ogunquit, Maine, Telephone Connections" written on it. There are lines below the heading which are earmarked for a No., Date, and Directions. Each face measure 1 inch by 2 and 1/4 inches. The neck is 3/4 of an inch.
Description: This small clear glass bottle measures 2 and 1/4 inches high and 2 inches around. There is no stopper. There is a label but the lettering is hard to decipher. I can make out: ORIENTA ANACARDIUM. The glass appears cloudy and dirty.
Description: This is a small bottle which is 2 and 3/4 inch high and 2 and 1/4 inches around. The cork stopper is in place. There is a label which has StaphisAGria on it. There is a thin cord wrapped around the top of this round bottle.
Description: Scale model of MDI Class sloop #16, Rugosa, made in 2008 by Duane Muzzy. The MDI Class Sloops were designed by Ralph Winslow in 1924 and 16 were constructed to teach the children of Mount Desert Island summer residents to sail. The full sized boats were: 21' 8" LOA 16' 5" LWL 4' Draft 6' 8" Beam 260.00 sq ft sail area 4,428.00 lbs Displacement
Description: Doll. Large, wooden “Hitty”, chainsaw-carved and donated by Michelle DelValle in September 2005, clothes sewn by the artist's mother, and coral bead necklace made by Bruce Komusin. DelValle started out carving bears and figures, and began carving and selling dolls online in 2000. After many requests to carve Hitty and reading Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field, which is set at GCI's historic William Pitt Preble house, DelValle began carving small Hitty dolls. In the summer of 2005, work began on a life-size Hitty in the Crazy Mountains of Montana. Hitty's head and torso were carved from a solid Douglas Fir log, her arms from Lodge Pole Pine, and legs of Douglas Fir. She was sanded, distressed, and hand painted, then drilled and pegged to fit the arms and legs to the torso. (See DelValle's web page: TreeFolkHollow.com.) Hitty dolls are usually small and flat; this is the only life-size model. Hitty has a large following including fan clubs with newsletters and websites, newly-made Hitty dolls and furniture, and modern day adventure stories. Devotees visit GCIHS in the summer. (See GCIHS.org and HittyPreble.com) [show more]
Description: Doll, Hitty Diane, wood, in black and white striped dress with red flower motif on dress, white pantaloons and petticoat, written on back: "2006 [1/4 moon symbol] / del Hahn '06 / [fish symbol]"; Hitty Diane was carved by T.C. Vollum and painted by Michelle DelValle; donation also includes Hitty Cranberry (item 1340) and a 2-level doll house with accessories, plus a blue cloth-bound memorial book in honor of Diane Barrow-Clark (item 1335); Hitty Diane was donated in 2007 by T.C. Vollum and the HittyGirls Yahoo Group. (See GCIHS webpage for Hitty doll information.) With three other dresses: black/white houndstooth with white apron and red shawl; red/tan floral with bonnet; tan with daisy print. Accoutrements: blue felt shawl, blue knitted scarf, blue knitted poncho and hat. 5 wooden doll mannekins for clothing. Knick knacks and clothing stored in doll house trunk. Rugs and furniture in doll house. (See also items 1928, 1335, and 1340. Photo 1928B shows set up before dismantling.) [show more]
Description: Doll, Hitty Thonotosassa, carved from linden (basswood) by Janet Cordell, marked "Janet Denton-Cordell / L-68 / 2006", dressed in Swiss batiste "onesie" underwear with Hitty cross-stitched in red on the yoke, and a flowered buff-yellow cabbage rose dress by "Hitty Couture"; sitting in a prop twig nest with three crows, also with an illustration by Dorothy P. Lathrop cut from the book "Hitty: Her First Hundred Years", written by Rachel Field, 1929. All donated donated by: Vickie Applegate, Elise Buhn, Susan Duncan, Josie Fuller, Elaine Hill, Sharon Horswill, Jill Hunter, Michelle Kirby, Martha Maxwell, Laurel Parker, Sue Parker, Barbara Polidoro-Conklin, Nancy Schell, Ann Stroupe, Eileen Turner, and TC Vollum; displayed under a glass bell jar. (See GCIHS web page for Hitty doll information.) [show more]
Description: Doll, Hitty Cranberry, cloth and painted stuffed doll, clothed in tan dress with cranberry motif, cranberry colored knitted shawl, and white pantaloons; face hair, arms, legs, and shoes painted on cloth; written on back of doll "In Memory of Diane Clark / Hitty / By / Nancy / Schell / 2006"; Hitty Cranberry was made by Nancy Schell; donation also includes a 2-level doll house, plus Hitty Diane (item 1928) and a blue cloth-bound memorial book in honor of Diane Barrow-Clark (item 1335); Hitty Cranberry was donated in 2007 by Nancy Schell and the HittyGirls Yahoo Group. (See GCIHS web page for Hitty doll information.) Two additional dresses: blue floral pattern with red shawl; grey dress with white shawl and cap. One doll-sized book, two crocheted blankets, 1 bed, 1 clothes rack and rug. [show more]