Description: Presented by Jerome Knowles. Known as the Northeast Harbor Village Library. This facility was used after the old library and reading room would close for the winter.
Description: Library party to announce start of capital campaign for building and endowment. Annual book sale held at same time. Party featured Trustee speeches, music, and food. Seated: Wilma Eaton, Alida Coates, Marion Salisbury & Gigi Phelps. Standing: Don Coates.
Description: Framed, B/W, 9.5x8" photograph of student storytellers at the library. Names listed on back include Standing: Steve Coffin, John Grant, Sitting: Elaine Higgens, Esther Jordan Floor: Dick Smith, Jr. and Dick Lunt
Description: A photograph of the Northeast Harbor Library, which was sent to The Bar Harbor Times that ran in a special supplement, "Getting to Know Your Mount Desert Island Non-Profit Organization".
Description: Standing in line with sign "Site of Northeast Harbor Free Public Library". L to R: William S. Holmes, Mrs. Gerrish H. Milliken, Sr., Gordon H. Falt, Matthew T. Mellon, Eliot Wadsworth, Mrs. Vance C. McCormick, Charles K. Savage Not present: Mr. S. Edwin Tracy, Mrs. August Belmont and Mrs. George Manchester
Description: On the steps of the Library in Southwest Harbor. The photograph is by W.H. Ballard and was originally published in The Bar Harbor Times Oct. 1, 1942. The caption under it read as follows: "LAST STORY HOUR AT SOUTHWEST " - Seventy children who have been attending the weekly story hour at the Southwest Harbor library are shown above at the final story hour of the season, when prizes were awarded to 25 children who completed the summer reading clubs the "Around the World Book Club, and the "Know Your Country Book Club." Stories have been told to the children once a week by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton." The adult in the photograph is Miss Ruth E. Lawrence. [show more]
Description: The drawing and cover letter are framed together. Miss Gilman attributes the drawing to Hopkinson Smith. The logo continues in use a century later.