Description: 1) Article with photos by Cynthia Bourgeault on Swan's Island residents and the pros and cons of real estate development there. 2) Article with photos by John N. Cole on the Claremont Hotel's annual croquet tournament (Southwest Harbor).
Description: Article with Photos in a travel magazine by Jessica Maxwell on visiting the sites in Bar Harbor, Bass Harbor, Southwest Harbor, Jordan Pond and Acadia National Park.
Description: This is a booklet of perspectives designed by COA dated 1980 of the Somesville Museum. It is seven pages and the drawings were done by various people, possibly students of COA. For example, Herb Foote; Ron Johnson; heidi Dexter; Katie Van pine; Abigail Goodyear; Ellen Sullivan; and Dwight Lampher. The pages measure 18 by 24 inches. These designs depict the museum with a porch and a second story.
Description: This is an 18 by 24 inch detail drawing of the Somesville Museum. It shows the grade line, coarse gravel fill, treated outer layer coming into contact with the ground, rigid foam insulation, sill plate, plywood, sill and ram set, etc.
Description: This is a 6 page booklet of architectural drawings on the museum building in Somesville for the Historical Society. Page 1 is the title page and general conditions; page 2 is the floor plan; page 3 is the section; page 4 is the south elevation; and page 5 actually encompasses two pages dedicated to the elevations. The booklet measures 18 by 24 inches.
Description: This is a single page measuring 16 by 20 inches of the Somesville Museum Plan. Exhibit areas and an area for administration and Museum sales are marked on the plan.
Description: This booklet contains the specifications of a stable for Mr. John Kane of Bar Harbor. With the index , it is 20 typewritten pages. There is evidence of water damage around the edges of the documents. The name of Mr. John Kane's home in Bar Harbor is "Breakwater" so this file has been places with the rest of those materials. Kane's home in Bar Harbor was called "Breakwater".
Description: Interviews of 27 residents of the Bar Harbor and Otter Creek areas about the Tarn, now a small, shallow pond and emergent wetland; it was originally a meadow.
Description: Vol. VII, 2012: The Woman's Question: Francis Parkman's Arguments Against Women's Suffrage by Tim Garrity "Women got the vote fifty long years ago" by La Rue Spiker Elinor Wylie's Mount Desert Island Retreat by Carl Little A Literary Refuge: Ruth Moore and Eleanor Mayo by Sven Davisson Casualties: The Women of Mount Desert and the Civil War by Tim Garrity Sargent House: A Woman's Gift to the Outer Island of Down East Maine by Rosamond S. Rea Reflections of a Natural Historian by Ruth Gortner Grierson [show more]
Description: Vol. XII, 2011 History Builds Community by Jack Russell The Histories of Saint Sauveur by Tim Garrity "Indians Camping at Somesville" by Adelma Somes Joy Asticou's Fjord or Somes Sound? Mythistory of Wabanaki Dispossession by Harald E.L. Prins and Bunny McBride "Mansell Mountain Breakdown" and "Winter Walk" by Carl Little "Elegy for my Brother 1997," "The Apple" and "In Praise of White" by Beth Straus John Gilley Fell at the Battle of the Wilderness by Tim Garrity "Hurray for 'Another Reason'" by Hellmut Juretschke An Afternoon with David Rockefeller, David Rockefeller with Kathleen Miller Thoughts While Keeping Warm on January 25, 2011 by Bill Horner MD [show more]
Description: 21-page monograph presented by the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Story originally published from Rachel Field's collection Points East: Narratives of New England, 1933. Bruce Komusin of the Great Cranberry Island Historical Society brought the work to the attention of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Editor: Emily M. Beck
Description: 21-page monograph presented by the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Story originally published from Rachel Field's collection Points East: Narratives of New England, 1933. Bruce Komusin of the Great Cranberry Island Historical Society brought the work to the attention of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Editor: Emily M. Beck
Description: This single folder is labeled "E. H. Greely". Under this name the label continues with "Eagle Lake Lot, 1895". Credit is given to Savage & Lord, Civil Engineers. There is a single blueprint inside.
Description: There are two folders in drawer 1 marked Malvern Hotel, Bar Harbor. The first folder is labeled Trace & Linen. The second folder is labeled Trace.
Description: There are three folders marked Dark Harbor Islesboro Inn. The first two folders are noted to contain trace '. The third folder is marked to contain ' Blueprints.
Description: There are two folders labeled "Fred Savage, Comfort Station, Village Green, Bar Harbor". The first is marked as containing blueprints and the second as containing linens and kraft.
Description: There are two folders labeled "Fred Savage, Mrs. A.E. Platt Cottage, Bar Harbor". The first is dated "circa 1901-1905" and has kraft, trace, and linen. The second folder is dated 1901 and has 10 blueprints.
Description: There are five folders in this drawer all dedicated to "Breakwater". John T. Kane is the owner and the location is noted as Bar Harbor. The first folder has Kraft. The second folder has linens. The third folder has several drawings on tissue-like paper of balconies, pillars/columns, etc. The fourth folder has mantels/details. The fifth folder has blueprints.