Description: A math booklet for the students on Cranberry Island. This booklet likely belong to the teacher, because it has all the students names in the back of the book. The names in the back of the book are: Maurice A. Stanley, Ella B. Stanley, Alice M. Bulger, Nellie M. Rosebrook, Velma M. Stanley, Ethel M. Stanley, Ruth F. Stanley, Beatrice E. Bunker, Vincie M. Bunker, Esther M.Stanley, Lulu M. Steel, Lillian A. Bracy, Walter F. Juy, Clarence H. Crosby, Clarence F Juy, Ernest G. Stanley, Harold L. Stanley, Everett K. Wedge, Ralph Bulger, Walker R. Stanley and Merrill E. Stanley. The book was published before many of these children listed where born, meaning that they were using an older edition of the book. [show more]
Description: Article about Mrs. Alice Gray, Mrs. Linda Foote, Allen Smith. "Pretty Marsh Was Once Populous Farming and Fishing Community," Bar Harbor Times, May 9, 1963. (3 copies) "Pretty Marsh is a few miles and a world away from the rest of MDI," Community Observer, Sept. 4, 1974 "Under Uncle Dick Hill, " Bar Harbor Times, July 12, 1979 "Acadia: Land and Sea Vie in Eternal Struggle," Philadelphia Inquirer, May 11, 1965 (2 copies) Christening of "Acadian" by Lisa MacQuinn, Bar Harbor Times, April 16, 1970 Articles from Bar Harbor Times, April 9, 1970 Letter to editor, Bar Harbor Times, from Helen Cosgrove-Carignan, Sept. 23, 1976 "Legend of Schooner Head," Bar Harbor Times, Aug. 27, 1981 "Wreck of the Grand Design," Bar Harbor Times, April 16, 1987 Obituary, David Eliot McGiffert, Bar Harbor Times, Oct. 20, 2005 [show more]
Description: 1997: Charles W. Eliot and John Gilley: Good Hope for Our Country. Plan of exhibit, list of artifacts & photographs, bibliography, "John Gilley and Charles W. Eliot: Good Hope for Our Country," by Jaylene B. Roths (ms.), "The Gilley Family of Mt. Desert," by William Otis Sawtelle, (ms), and other notes. 1997: From Boarding House to Grand Hotel: The Origins of Tourism on Mount Desert Island. Background notes for exhibit, list of photographs and other items. 2000: Victorian Dining on Mount Desert Island. Photographs of exhibit; artifact list; background notes. Many items loaned for exhibit; excerpts from rules of dining, how to set tables, cookbooks, etc. 2001: Stitch in Time," at Somesville Museum: Weaving, Woolen Mill, Spinning, Sewing, Quilting, 2002: "I Came to this Place: The Story of the Village of Somesville." A new permanent exhibit at the Somesville Museum. 2004: Somesville Museum. Many of same objects and info. as in 2002 exhibit, above. 2005: Somesville Museum, "Arrival of Rusticators in 1855, Their Adventures, and Stories of the Local Residents They Met." Tracy Party, poem by Theodore Winthrop. 2006: Handicrafts Exhibit, notes from Smallidge. Also notes about Winter Industries, Getting By in Winter or Hard Times, What's Here to do After Summer People go home? [show more]
Description: Publication called Gary Galyean's Golf Letter, subtitled The Inside Report on World Golf, Number 53, August 1994. Contains a description and history of the Northeast Harbor Golf Club and infromation on the Number 16, 17, 18 holes. Publication called Gary Galyean's Golf Letter, subtitled The Inside Report on World Golf, Listing of publications available through them on golf courses around the counrty and world NE Harbor Golf Club being one of those publications which can be ordered. [show more]
Description: Oral History Interview with Emma Richards, February 5, 2007 (2 audio tapes marked 007.6.2a and 007.6.2b) .2a=XR-90 Extended Range (45 minutes) .2b=Maxell UR (60 minutes)
Description: Donation of the architectural drawings of Robert Patterson Jr. to the MDI Historical Society. It includes a summary of Patterson’s career.
Description: 56 page Helps For Teachers catalogue of school products. Published by: D.H. Knowlton & Co., Farmington, Maine. 1877 is written on the cover. Also written is, “Emma Frances Somes Previously archived as 016.FIC.001.11
Description: Catalogue (1991) for exhibit of George Daniell's photographs in The George Daniell Gallery in Trenton, with 1991 introduction by Carl Little. Includes "chronology" of Daniell's career, exhibitions and collections holding his photographs. Photographs from the 1930s to the 1970s are included in the catalogue.
Description: 1962 Directory and Handbook, NE Harbor, Seal Harbor, Somesville, SW Harbor, and adjacent islands edited by Mrs. Hollis M. Eaton, Tan cover, Forty-eighth Edition, seventy-five cents
Description: Written Transcript Interview of Louise Sawtelle Libby , 2001. Interviewed by Leza Colquohn as part ot the Southwest Harbor Public Library Oral History collection. There are four interviews conducted on: July 11, 200l; September 6, 2001, October 9, 2001, and March 14, 2002. Original tapes of these interviews are in the Southwest Harbor Public Library collection.
Description: Catalogue of George B. Dorr's Mount Desert Nurseries. Clarence E. Dow is listed as manager of the nurseries. Dorr is listed as president of the company. Catalogue includes tree, shrubs, vines, hardy herbaceous perennials, bedding plants, and roses. Offices and greenhouses of the nurseries: Lower Main Street, Bar Harbor. Although there is no date on the catalogue, the introduction mentions that the nurseries "were founded thirty years ago in recognition of the remarkable horticultural qualities Mount Desert Island had disclosed in its earliest pleasure garden, established fifteen years before and linked with the first development of summer residence upon the Island." [show more]