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| "The Bar Harbor Blue Book and Mount Desert Guide" Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  "The Bar Harbor Blue Book and Mount Desert Guide" Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Book with blue cover and in gilded text: "The Bar Harbor Blue Book and Mount Desert Guide 1881". Contains addresses and guide book with advertisements. |
| Dodge's Guide Book and Map Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Dodge's Guide Book and Map Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Guidebook of Mount Desert Island writen by Ezra Herrick Dodge. Title page read's: "Dodge's Guide Book and Map to and over Mount Desert Island by E. H. Dodge, of Tremont (Mt. Desert), Me. Portland: Loring, Short and Harmon. June, 1872" |
| Pins from Opening of Cadillac Mountain Road Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Pins from Opening of Cadillac Mountain Road Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Two identical souvenir pins commemorating the opening of the Cadillac Mountain Road. On pin is a black and white image of the view of the road and around the edge reads "Cadillac Mountain Road Dedicated July 23, 1932". A small American flag is attached to bottom of the pin. | |
| "The Bar Harbor Fire" Oil Painting by Howe Duane Higgins Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  "The Bar Harbor Fire" Oil Painting by Howe Duane Higgins Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Panoramic view of the 1947 Bar Harbor fire painted by Howe Duane Higgins and framed in a ornate gilded frame. |
| The"Champlain Map" Model of Mount Desert Island by Robert Abbe Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  The"Champlain Map" Model of Mount Desert Island by Robert Abbe Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Relief map of Mt. Desert Island + vicinity. Modeled by Robert Abbe; reproduced by Howell's Microcosm, Washington D.C. copyright 1916. Turquoise, white, black and brown. Top righthand corner has label with title as well as signatures showing endorsements from Charles W Eliot and George B Dorr for the Trustees of Public Reservation. Lower righthand corner has label with maker and reproducer as well as date. On back is a label explaining the history; may be original. [show more] |
| Acadia National Park: It's Growth and Development by George B Dorr Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Acadia National Park: It's Growth and Development by George B Dorr Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Hard cover book, green cover embossed with gold lettering. Written by George B Dorr. |
| Acadia National Park: It's Origin and Background by George B Dorr Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Acadia National Park: It's Origin and Background by George B Dorr Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Hard cover book, green cover embossed with gold lettering. Written by George B Dorr. |
| Great Cranberry Island History Project, College of the Atlantic, 1992 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Great Cranberry Island History Project, College of the Atlantic, 1992 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Book, Great Cranberry Island History Project, College of the Atlantic, "Photography: Public and Private Language" Fall 1992, mostly photographs with some text. | ||
| Cranberry Isles Map and Cottage Directory 1958 (laminated) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cranberry Isles Map and Cottage Directory 1958 (laminated) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Map. Laminated 1958 Cranberry Isles Cottage Directory (L.S. Robinson Real Estate) houses numbered and owners identified. | |
| 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. | |
| Land Agreement between Wilfred Bunker, Frances Marr, Louise Marr, Mary Chamberlin, Doris McSorley , and Wilson Chamberlin, Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Land Agreement between Wilfred Bunker, Frances Marr, Louise Marr, Mary Chamberlin, Doris McSorley , and Wilson Chamberlin, Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A land agreement where Wilfred Bunker sells his land to Louise and Frances Marr, as wells as Mary Chamberlin, Wilson Chamberlin, and Doric McSorley. This piece of land was owned by Wilfred Bunker, and is located near the Heath, and the Marr family was wanting to develop on this land, but needed the permission of Wilfred Bunker. | |
| Aerial view of Great Cranberry with Sutton and Manset 1944 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Aerial view of Great Cranberry with Sutton and Manset 1944 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photograph, large, high resolution black and white 1944 print of aerial view of portion of Great Cranberry Island with Sutton Island and coast of Manset. Identifying numbers across top of photo: G8-20 ME 44.67 1030 5-26-44C 1232. Written in pencil on reverse is: McSorley; Doris "Dot" P. Marr McSorley was the sister of Louise Marr, descendants of the Preble family on GCI, inheritors of house and large properties. Details of houses and landscapes discernible. Was photo taken from a blimp? (Shortly after the date of this photograph (5/26/44), a blimp crashed (allegedly shot down) in in this region - July 3, 1944. See Hugh Dwelley article at http://archive.bangordailynews.com/2003/03/15/another-tale-from-maines-u-boat-file/). [show more] | |||
| Russians and Yankees Battle Mosquitoes on Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Russians and Yankees Battle Mosquitoes on Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document. Newspaper article, "Russians and Yankees Battle Mosquitoes on Cranberry Isles" Boston Evening Transcript, Saturday, July 28, 1928, page 3. An Expert Leads the Forces and Guarantees to Drive the Pests Out or No Pay; By Karl Schriftgiesser, Northeast Harbor, Me. Article begins: "Eighteen Russians and native Yankees are fighting a desperate battle on the Cranberry Isles that shelter the south side of Mt. Desert from fury of the seas." This sardonic article explains the project to rid the Cranberry Isles of mosquitoes. Mentions Moorfield Storey's role; and Major Edward Skinner was the engineer (founder of the United States Drainage and Irrigation Company); cost $12,000. Article states that "It is the first place anywhere in the State of Maine that mosquito eradication will have been attempted." Mentions several sites to be worked on: a crisscross of trenches will drain a "salt marsh covers between eight and nine hundred acres and is free of all drainage." As well as "The "haith," as it is known locally, is nearly a mile in length. Now a long trench stretches the long way and other transverse ditches help to drain it." And "A dozen or so other swamps and salt marsh areas dot the island." "Deep down into these beaches of rock and gravel and sand wooden outlets have been sunk. In some instances the depth has been from six to twelve feet. The outlets have been constructed of heavy timbers rather than of iron or clay pipes because wood alone can withstand the constant buffeting of heavy rocks tossed hither and yon by a sea that is often in an angry mood. Iron would break, clay would crumble, wood alone can stand the strain." "On Great Cranberry there is a point of ground known locally for years as Pond Point. In this area are (or rather, were) Birlem's pond and the so-called Salt Lakes. Scientific drainage has entirely dissipated Birlem's pond and when the huge twelve-foot drain through a dishearteningly rocky beach has been completely cut the Salt Lakes will have been drained slowly into the sea." Mentions the 70-foot whale that beached itself there during WWII. "Near Green Spot and Long Point other treacherous bogs have been drained. Islesford, as Little Cranberry rather vainly calls itself, is fast being dried up. Sutton, the aristocrat of the small archipelago, is quickly becoming a pestless place." "Some of the native population is skeptical of results. Others, led by such whole-hearted citizens as Mr. and Mrs. John Hamor and Millard Spurling, have done fine work to help Mr. Storey in the war of which he is the prime mover. Summer residents of the islands and nearby harbors, the Cranberry Club, and other organizations have helped considerably." See complete transcript by Bruce Komusin. Article was in a wood and glass frame with cardboard backing, badly deteriorated. Removed from frame 9/18/14. [show more] | |||
| Painting by Charles Edwin Kinkead a.k.a. Kinkaid or Kincaid Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Painting by Charles Edwin Kinkead a.k.a. Kinkaid or Kincaid Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Painting by Charles Edwin Kinkead, oil, framed, of a marsh or field with still water in the foreground, trees in the background, and the mountains of Acadia National Park in the far distance; perhaps The Pool on Great Cranberry Island; or the Bass Harbor marshes per artist Carl Little who has painted there. Written on the back: "Mr Kinkead painted this picture / Presented it to Sadie Hamor 1925"; the painting, on canvas, is cut from its original stretcher and glued to a cardboard backing. (Note: the artist's name is a.k.a. Kinkaid or Kincaid.) [show more] | ||
| Lifesaving Service collection Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Lifesaving Service collection Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of items from Alice White from 1955, included are postcards from Gott's Island from 1912 and several receipts. One book: Annual Report of the Operations of the United States Lifesaving Service for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 1879. Book stamped with "Custom House Portland ME Sep. 27, 1880" and has inscription on the first page "Alice White 1955". Includes services rendered by various crews 1879. | |||
| Friends of Hitty Newsletters 1995-2002 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Friends of Hitty Newsletters 1995-2002 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of "Friends of Hitty Newsletters" Published quarterly by Virginia Ann Heyerdahl. Collection contains each issue from January 1995 - Fall 2002 | |||
| Who Owned Baker's Island? by Hugh Dwelley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Who Owned Baker's Island? by Hugh Dwelley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Publication. "Who Owned Baker's Island?" Written and compiled by Hugh Dwelley of the Islesford Historical Society | |||
| Western Way properties for sale Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Western Way properties for sale Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: (A) Six oceanfront lots for sale by Marr family along the Western Way (southwest coast) on Great Cranberry, July 2, 1970 Bar Harbor Times. (B) Map of lots for sale listing the lots as Cranberry Cove, Spruce Haven, Rockledge, Preble Cove, Western Way, and Roberts (on Long Point). | ||
| Wooden plaque, Arms of Bermuda Northeast Harbor Fleet |
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|  Wooden plaque, Arms of Bermuda Northeast Harbor Fleet Description: Mahogany plaque with applied elements, one of which displays the coat of arms of the island of Bermuda, and the other mimics a gold ribbon upon which "Arms Bermuda" is painted. The arms of Bermuda shows a red lion holding a shield upon which is a depiction of a wrecked ship. | |||
| Copies two of 1787 Gregoire to W. Margaret Standley deeds Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Copies two of 1787 Gregoire to W. Margaret Standley deeds Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Xerox copies of two of 1787 Gregoire to W. Margaret Standley (GCI). From Elizabeth Selim. Very hard to read, but it goes over the who owns what land on Great Cranberry Island. | |
| Xerox copy of a deed of land rights. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Xerox copy of a deed of land rights. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Land deed. Involves Aaron Bunker and his Heirs, but is rather hard to read. | |
| "A Capsule History of Mt. Desert Island." Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "A Capsule History of Mt. Desert Island." Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A written down history of Mt. Desert and all of the surrounding harbors. This history mentions the Native Americans who used to travel out to the islands in the summer. IT also mentions Jackson lab and Acadia National Park. | |||
| Downtown Bar Harbor Proposed Beautification - West End Drug Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Downtown Bar Harbor Proposed Beautification - West End Drug Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Celebrated landscape architect, Beatrix Farrand commissioned a watercolor artist (unknown) to produce scenes of downtown Bar Harbor with her recommendations to the Village Improvement Association for beautifying the downtown with trellises, window boxes, plants, and flowers. Farrand's recommendations were never carried out. West End Drug building & delivery wagon on Main Street | |
| Map of west end of Islesford Islesford Historical Society |
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|  Map of west end of Islesford Islesford Historical Society Description: Photo taken of western part of a Map labeled Brooks/Bowditch 1971 showing houses, docks, and old ice pond |
| Downtown Bar Harbor Proposed Beautification - Stephen's Lane Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Downtown Bar Harbor Proposed Beautification - Stephen's Lane Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Celebrated landscape architect, Beatrix Farrand commissioned a watercolor artist (unknown) to produce scenes of downtown Bar Harbor with her recommendations to the Village Improvement Association for beautifying the downtown with trellises, window boxes, plants, and flowers. Farrand's recommendations were never carried out. Looking toward Cadillac Mt on Main Street and Stephen's Lane |