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| M. R. Frost Cottage Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  M. R. Frost Cottage Northeast Harbor Library Description: Rough drawings, 17x18", of the M. R. Frost Cottage. See also Item 2513 | ||||
| Tracy Cottage Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Tracy Cottage Northeast Harbor Library Description: Rough sketch of 2 level floor plan of the Tracy Cottage. Note indicating inking done by BSK (Belle Smallidge Knowles). | ||
| GXS Collection - Books and Souvenir Booklets Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  GXS Collection - Books and Souvenir Booklets Northeast Harbor Library Description: Folder 1 Glimpses of Camden, Maine, 1904, J. R. Prescott, 116 pages. Glimpses of Camden On the Coast of Maine, 1916, John R. Prescott, 1 volume (unpaged): all illustrations. Folder 2 A Souvenir of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island, Maine, 190?, W. H. Sherman, 68 pages : chiefly illustrations. Folder 3 (not yet scanned) Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island, 1888, William Berry Lapham, 72 pages: illustrations. Folder 4 Unidentified book about Maine homes and churches in the early days, commentary about home design, coastal living, farming, and general livelihood. 32 pages missing covers. Folder 5 The Summer State of Maine, Holman D. Waldron and Harry D. Young, ca. 1893, Tourist booklet in the shape of the state of Maine; cover illustration is map of Maine, 24 pages. Folder 30 Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island, by W. B. Lapham, 1887. Folder 31 Looking at Katahdin, the artists' inspiration, booklet about exhibit at L.C. Bates Museum, 1999. Folder 32 (scan from digitalmaine.com) Maine, the sesquicentennial of statehood, exhibition in the Library of Congress, 1970-1971, booklet. Folder 33 The Maine I Remember by Sidney Urquhast, article from Vogue Magazine, August 2000. Includes a photo of Walter Damrosch (Sidney's grandfather). Folder 43 Penzance in Maine: In Old Acadia, by F. W. Shumaker, 1927. Illustrations by S. Garnett Goesle and Herbet R. Roese. Folder 47 Northeast Harbor Port Directory, 1993. Folder 50 There is only one Bar Harbor - A few of its beautiful spots, by Ernest Emery, 1902. Folder 51 Mount Desert on the coast of Maine, by Mrs. Clara Barnes Martin, 1870 (very fragile) [show more] | ||||
| GXS Collection - Hotels, Inns, Schools, Homes, Buildings Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  GXS Collection - Hotels, Inns, Schools, Homes, Buildings Northeast Harbor Library Description: Northeast Harbor Folder 12 The Rock End Hotel, booklet published by C. B. Webster & Co., Boston. undated, 16 pages, illustrations and descriptions of MDI and the hotel. Seal Harbor Folder 13 The Glen Cove, Seal Harbor, brochure about the house and surrounding area, includes map of the island, undated. Folder 14 Seaside Inn, Seal Harbor, brochure, ca. 1952; Seaside Inn, Seal Harbor, brochure, undated Folder 15 Seaside Inn Menus, 1895 Bar Harbor Folder 16 Edenbrook Motel, Bar Harbor, brochure, ca. 1962. Folder 17 Wonderview Motor Lodge, Bar Harbor, brochure, ca. 1965. Folder 18 Hotel Bar Harbor, brochure, ca. 1952. Folder 19 The Van Doren Cottage at Hulls Cove, Bar Harbor, sale brochure, undated (1914, courtesy of J. B. Dyer). Folder 20 Redwood, Bar Harbor, sketch by John Calvin Stevens, brochure, 1992. Folder 21 Lawrence House, Bar Harbor, printed copy of sketch, September 17, 1883 Mainland Maine. Folder 54 Inn at Canoe Point, brochure, 1987 Southwest Harbor Folder 55 The Island House, bed & breakfast inn on Mount Desert Island, brochure Isle au Haut Folder 56 Union Congregational Church of Isle au Haut, Maine, 1857-1957, booklet, 20 pages. Mainland Maine Folder 22 Grindstone Inn, Winter Harbor. 2 brochures: the first ca. early 1900's, the second 1952. Folder 23 Woodlawn/Black House in Ellsworth: Maine's most interesting mansion, an example of Georgian architecture preserved with original furnishings. 5 brochures. Folder 24 Gouldsboro land improvement company's Grindstone inn and lands, Winter Harbor, 1891, 38 unnumbered pages illustrations. Folder 25 Washington Normal School at Machias Maine Fred L. Savage Architect, printed copy of sketch. Folder 49 “Old Wiscasset”, booklet. Historical data compiled by William Davis Patterson, August 1931. Printed by “The Times Co.”, Bath, Maine. Folder 57 Stanwood Homestead Museum, Ellsworth, Maine. Established 1960. A living memorial to Cordelia J. Stanwood. Brochure with map of Birdsacre Sanctuary. Folder 58 Historic Lewiston: A self-guided tour of our history, architecture and culture, brochure of historic buildings and sites with map, 2001. Folder 59 It must be Maine Architectural Trail, booklet about the architecture of Maine's small towns and villages, 16 pages. [show more] | ||||
| Claim: V. R. Smith versus Lena B. Foren, 1910 Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Claim: V. R. Smith versus Lena B. Foren, 1910 Northeast Harbor Library Description: Notice of foreclosure. | ||
| Joy cottage: room dimensions Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Joy cottage: room dimensions Northeast Harbor Library Description: Handwritten paper containing room dimensions of Mrs. Joy's cottage. | |||
| The Redbook Collection Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  The Redbook Collection Northeast Harbor Library Description: BOX 1 (record carton box) The Redbooks, 1912-2020 (missing 1913, 1917, 1918, 1948). Now called The Redbook--originally called Directory and Hand Book--these social registers list residents and their contact information, cottage locations and owners, businesses, various transportation schedules, tide charts, advertisements, and important phone numbers. The first book published in 1912 by Stella L. Hill was green, all the rest are red. The Redbook celebrated its 100 anniversary in 2012 and is still produced to this day. [show more] | |||
| Letter: Mrs. Edward King to Belle Smallidge, 1903 Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Letter: Mrs. Edward King to Belle Smallidge, 1903 Northeast Harbor Library Description: Letter regarding the rental of the Whitmore Cottage. | ||
| Letters: Georgina Roberts to Postmaster, 1901 Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Letters: Georgina Roberts to Postmaster, 1901 Northeast Harbor Library Description: Letter from Georgina Roberts of New York to Postmaster in Northeast Harbor regarding the possibility of renting a house. | ||
| Correspondence regarding Veazie cottage for rent Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Correspondence regarding Veazie cottage for rent Northeast Harbor Library Description: Letter, Belle Smallidge to Captain Marcellus Veazie, 1901 | ||
| Photos and clippings from Addie Duren Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photos and clippings from Addie Duren Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photos and assortment of clippings. 21 photographs of people, boats, structures, from Addie Duren's time, given to GCIHS by her son Ron Mountain, some with IDs written on reverse: A=Adline Bunker; B= Ernest Stanley In Service, First World War; C=Alfred Ladd passed away in first world war by a bomb. D=Addie must be going someplace. All dressed up in my Brothers clothes. E=Winfield Stanley; F=Omer Mountain In USN; G=Eliza Stanley; H=Addie Duren. Photos I-M=people no IDs (except deerhunter photo is marked 1940. Photos N-R=boats have no IDs except N (upper right corner)=First boat Raymond B. ever built. Photos of buildings S=Aid building/barn; T=GCI Church; U=Velma Teel's house in the snow. V-ZZ=Newspaper clippings: improved lobster pot design 1956, witticisms, and children' games. AA-CC= handwritten songs and a note. [show more] | |||
| Cranberry Isles Map and Cottage Directory 1958 (annotated) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cranberry Isles Map and Cottage Directory 1958 (annotated) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: 1958 Cranberry Isles Map and Cottage Directory by L.S. Robinson Real Estate, with annotations by Louise Marr or Doris McSorley. | |
| GXS Collection - Maps and Blueprints Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  GXS Collection - Maps and Blueprints Northeast Harbor Library Description: Folder 6 A Map of Mount Desert Island, issued by the Mt. Desert Chamber of Commerce, 1938. Illustrations and descriptive text on verso. Folder 6a A Map of Mount Desert Island, issued by the Chamber of Commerce of Bar Harbor, Mount Desert and Southwest Harbor, 1950. Illustrations and descriptive text on verso. Folder 7 The Maine Art Museum Trail, map and brochure listing museums around Maine, 2015. Folder 8 Blueprint with first and second floor plans for George S. Talcott house at Seal Harbor, ME, Clayton B. Roath, undated. Folder 40 Map of Seal Harbor. Folder 45 (no image) Architectural Drawing: blueprints of “Cedar Cliff”, house of G. L. Stebbins, Seal Harbor, Maine (very fragile). [show more] | ||||
| Old view of Cranberry Road Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Old view of Cranberry Road Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Enlarged reprint of an old view of Cranberry Road (perhaps a postcard view) with a mask identifying buildings along the road. Probably identified 1982 or later by someone who knew Tud Bunker (Doc Haydock?). | |||
| Houses on GCI Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Houses on GCI Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A= Postcard photo of Old Stanley home (now Rome/Glazer house) with note: "Nettie Stanley Residents" (sic) Shows the old store to the left, rear of house. B= Birlem fish house on the Pool. C= Town dock and Birlem fish house and little bait house. D= Postcard photo of GCI Post Office (orig photo was by J.G. Towns, Holbrook, MA). E= Bunker dock in the Pool with workers. F= Evergreen trees at dawn with caption "Just a dawn." G= Photo of interior of a home. H= Christmas card photo of Nativity scene an sleigh with reindeer with note that ceramics were made for Florence and Herbert Towns. [show more] | |||
| Glass globe light fixture Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Glass globe light fixture Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Light fixture. Glass globe from donor's kitchen ceiling light with connections and cap. White glass with two blue lines and pale blue band between them; brass base is painted beige. | |||
| Report on 19th-century concealed shoes and Cape Houses Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Report on 19th-century concealed shoes and Cape Houses Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Houses. Architectural and folk history. This updated 2018 report of investigation summarizes 2013-2017 research into nine Cape-style houses spawned by the 2013 discovery and repatriation of four ca. 1820-1830s shoes concealed in the chimney wall of the parsonage house of the Great Cranberry Congregational Church. The 2014 and 2018 revised report was submitted to the Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Acadia NPS, and GCIHS. Revised version is twenty-two pages with photos and bibliography as of January 18, 2018, and includes findings of a 2015 dendrochronology project. This study of the parsonage Cape-style house with its neighboring Cape-style houses and the separate 2013 study of the nearby ca. 1826 Preble house documents a cluster of historic island houses on the verge of becoming unrecognizable through remodeling. Research reveals folk practices, the oeuvre of local 19th-century house builders; Cape-style design innovations; granite and lumber sources; dendrochronology study; and early 19th-century Bulger and Spurling family histories. One of the cape houses was the birthplace of Civil War Medal of Honor General Andrew Barclay Spurling.; the Preble House was his boyhood home. See also concealed shoe research: 2013.252.1979. See 2018 Chebacco Magazine article, Concealed Shoes and Cape Houses: Artifacts as Agents of the Past by Anne Grulich [show more] | ||
| Shoe remnants discovered in Pasonage crawlspace 2013 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Shoe remnants discovered in Pasonage crawlspace 2013 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Shoes. A collection of the remains of late 19th-century leather shoes discovered in the kitchen crawlspace during the 2013 remodeling of the Great Cranberry Congregational Church parsonage house (177 Cranberry Road). Twenty soles or pieces of soles and two heel uppers with soles missing; remains of nine high boots with eyelets (some brass eyelets in-situ); and twenty leather shoe scraps. All shoe remains are leather, all soles are double- or single- row wood-pegged. [show more] | |||
| Hamor House sketch Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hamor House sketch Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Drawing by S.G. Easter or Caster? pencil sketch of the Hamor Tea House; some water staining on the edges. Painting removed from original frame (a glass pane with metal rosettes securing it to a wood board back). Original sketch stored separately; scanned print of the drawing is in frame. | |||
| The Old Homestead, poem Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  The Old Homestead, poem Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: The Old Homestead, a poem by E.T. Preble., reminisces about the Preble house on GCI and all the lives now past. The author of the poem is most likely Elmenia Thompson Spurling, b. 19 Aug 1840, who married first Ezra Carroll, then William Henry Preble. Elmenia had four children by Preble, one being Abby Lizzie Preble, b. 25 Sep 1865, d. 24 Dec 1901 in Chicago. (Statement at bottom of poem connects author to GCI Preble house.) | |||
| Mortgage release for George N. Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Mortgage release for George N. Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Release by Heirs of Benjamin Spurling for George N. Spurling's mortgage as recorded in 1864. [Book229/Page329, 1888] | ||
| Louise Marr photographs of houses Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Louise Marr photographs of houses Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Three copies of a photograph (5"x4") of a house (probably not on GCI) with inscriptions: To Benj H. Spurling and wife From Ezra and Aunt Min; Christmas Greetings to Benj H. Spurling from Ezra and Aunt Min Dec. 25, 1920; and Christmas Greetings to Wade Marr and family from Ezra and Aunt Min. (B): Photograph of a different house 6"x4" with people standing on porch (no inscription on reverse): Per Willie Granston this house with gingerbread trim is on Islesford, just beyond the church, on the left. (This house appears in the Islesford postcard that GCIHS has, with the church in the background.) [show more] | ||
| Postcard photo of houses Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Postcard photo of houses Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Postcard photos (A) a house on Islesford with message on reverse to Frances (Marr?) dated 1918, and (B) an unknown house with two people on porch (no message). | |||
| Archaeological fragments recovered at Macfarlan (Preble) house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Archaeological fragments recovered at Macfarlan (Preble) house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Archaeological fragments. Collection of ceramic sherds; white clay pipestem fragments; doll parts, and small finds. Collection of artifacts recovered by donor 1970s-1990s from his property - the historic William Pitt Preble house built ca. 1827. Items donor recovered outside behind the kitchen include sherds of brown, green, purple, red, and blue underglaze printed wares (one "Indian Tomb" pattern (ca. 1830)). Some printed ware sherds with scalloped and some with smooth edges, most are of buff paste and white on reverse. Blue, green, and white edged earthenwares. One sherd underglaze blue, sponge or splatter pattern. One sherd blue/grey stoneware. Four white clay pipe stem fragments measured by donor 2013/2014 and remeasured 2015. Doll's arm marked 'Germany' = 0.093". Small finds: larger doll arm; blue cut glass bead, pocket watch key, tiny wood button, fragment of small metal collar, fragment of what may be a bone toothbrush head. (See also 2017.386.2161 for research materials.) [show more] | |||
| The Callendar House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Callendar House Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The Callendar House was the first summer cottage built of brick in Bar Harbor. When this photograph was taken in 2016, the Jackson Lab owned this structure which is located on the Schooner Head Road just outside of Bar Harbor. The history of Bar Harbor is the history of the rich and famous and the story of the Callendar House fits right into this history. The imposing “cottage” was built in 1901 for Mrs. John Callendar Livingston, a member of the prominent and incredibly prosperous Livingston family, by Fredrick Savage. The structure was Savage’s most formal design and also the most expensive (partly because just before it was completed in 1901, the entire building burnt leading to a near complete rebuilding). Savage, himself, was a native of Northeast Harbor and the vast majority of his work consisted of cottages and hotels, showing the rise of Bar Harbor’s place as a “summer colony”. Savage built cottages in many styles including several prominent Queen Anne and Shingle Style structures showcasing the dominant design trends of the late 19th century and early 20th century. The Callendar House, however, can be seen as firmly colonial revival in design and was the first summer “cottage” built with brick. At the time of its construction it was praised by the Bar Harbor Record for both its refinement and its modernity. In 1992, the Callendar House was purchased by the Jackson Lab at a foreclosure auction. (Source: Maine Preservation). [show more] |