Description: Black and white "Christmas Greeting" photo postcard showing canoers on Somesville Mill Pond with Somesville Library in background. Back of card has written, "Bob & Norma."
Description: Letter Amasa Higgins (could also be Ana Higgins) Deer Isle from Richard Warren, Gouldsboro, Deer Isle re: purchase of mill logs and shingle wood.
Description: Paul Stubing indicated that this was a picture of the Stanley Fisheries and that the double-ender was "always" in the same point. The caption on the back reads, "Foggy Morning at Southwest Harbor, Maine - August 1941...Lighthouse Tender ILEX - Schooner Rebecca R. Douglass." There is a three-masted schooner in the center background and a vessel which looks like a freighter on the top left. There are two gulls resting on pilings in the foreground. [show more]
Description: Ledger. Small tan leather. Ledger of A. C. Fernald for provisions of schooners 1844-1850 including schooner Seasonpoint(?) or Leaderpant (?), Osprey, Water Witch, Northaven (?), xx and, and entries with individual names: David Pung or King, Peter Standley, Horace Durgen, Edwin Hadlock, Elisha Gilley, Shelddon Brown, Joseph Lancaster, Daniel Kimbal, William M. Richardson, Thomas Savage, Beniah Bunker,and others. One loose scrap of paper with note: "Received eighteen dollars from Capt William Moore it Being in full of all accounts to this date. Cranberry Isl. June 20, 1849, John A. Hitchfield (or Hitchhilll?) [show more]
Description: Article announcing the opening of the Penobscot Indian Craft Shop in Bar Harbor. The shop is for the purpose of selling crafts of Maine Penobscot Indians as well Western American Indian tribes. Previously archived as 012.FIC.040.4
Description: Unknown man with no legs (only feet) standing on covered table or stool. Curly hair with receding hairline. Wears dark suit with velvet collar, white shirt, black silk tie. Child in center, age 5-9, blond curly hair parted on side. Wears dark sailor type top, buttons down center with bow tie, knee pants and dark boots. Unknown woman (mother?) sits to right. Hair worn close to head, tight curls flat on forhead. Wears small earings. Dark dress with stripe pattern forming squares. Ruffles above skirt hem. Vertical ruffles down front of skirt. Same trim on cuffs. Large buttons down center of bodice. Wide white collar nearly reaching shoulders lays flat. Marked on back, “Eli Bowen, Wife and Child. A. Newman Photographer. Ground floor Skylight 228 North Ninth Street, Philadelphia. [show more]
Description: Fading inscriptions of Savage Family Grave stones in a field at 153 Peabody Dr. Recorded by Alex Goriansky. Includes Elemena, wife of Thomas Savage.
Description: Invoice from A.B. & J.R. Hodgkins Contractors and Builders for labor and materials used at The Sunset Hotel. A stamp on the invoice indicates that the bill was paid on May 5, 1937. People Mentioned: A. B. Hodgkins, J. R. Hodgkins
Description: Carte de visite of a man with dark hair parted on right, swept over (and slightly up) on right side. Has very thick dark mustache. Wears dark suit, dark bow tie, white shirt. Jacket unbuttoned after first button, distinctive horseshoe shaped pin on left lapel.
Description: "Cottage Costing about $3,000. Stone foundation, shingled sides and roof. Designed as a Summer House by W.A. Bates." Page from "The House and Home - A Practical Book" by Dr. Lyman Abbott and others. Chapter XIV, House Building by Helen Churchill Candee, p. 66 - 1896
Description: Reproduction of the First American Map of the United States in 1784, compiled and engraved by Abel Buell. Reproduced by American Heritage, the Magazine of History, from an original copy at the New Jersey State Historical Society.
Description: History of Northeast Harbor and an account of the Manchester family. 1 copy includes 1959 forward by Samuel E. Morison and hand notes of Ruth Jordan.
Description: Landscape, contour plan of building site, 22x24", one of ink on tag paper, another of tissue (torn/fragile, of property of William Marcus, Jr. in Seal Harbor. tracing cloth, of property of William Marcus Jr., in Seal Harbor. Plan is torn; very fragile.
Description: Invitation to a black tie dinner celebrating the opening of the exhibit Downeast Bird Carvings by Wendell Gilley at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pa. On the back page is a handwritten note from Barbara Tyson to Wendell.
Description: Color slide of an aerial view of a pile of trash at the edge of a forest. A river runs to the left of the frame and pine trees on the right of the frame. Notes on slide read: Aerial. Dol. Dump, #120 Color slides which are part of an exhibit. The slides are numbered were not stored in the box in sequential order. The slides are left in the order they appear in the box. From box labeled: Pant Ce Exhibit Birds
Description: Color slide of a bald eagle hunched forward on a tree branch with it's beak open. Notes on slide read: Bald Eagle, #99 Color slides which are part of an exhibit. The slides are numbered were not stored in the box in sequential order. The slides are left in the order they appear in the box. From box labeled: Pant Ce Exhibit Birds
Description: Color slide of a marsh hawk sitting on a ground nest next to vegitation. Notes on slide read: Marsh Hawk, #97 Color slides which are part of an exhibit. The slides are numbered were not stored in the box in sequential order. The slides are left in the order they appear in the box. From box labeled: Pant Ce Exhibit Birds
Description: Color slide of a great horned owl sitting on a tree branch. Notes on slide read: Owl, #96 Color slides which are part of an exhibit. The slides are numbered were not stored in the box in sequential order. The slides are left in the order they appear in the box. From box labeled: Pant Ce Exhibit Birds
Description: Color slide of three song sparrows. Two are sitting on a branch looking to the left and one bird is comming in for a landing on the branch. Notes on slide read: Song Sparrows, #69 Color slides which are part of an exhibit. The slides are numbered were not stored in the box in sequential order. The slides are left in the order they appear in the box. From box labeled: Pant Ce Exhibit Birds
Description: Color slide of a muskrat swimming in a body of water. The slide is out of focus. Notes on slide read: Muskrat, #77 Color slides which are part of an exhibit. The slides are numbered were not stored in the box in sequential order. The slides are left in the order they appear in the box. From box labeled: Pant Ce Exhibit Birds
Description: 8 X 10 black and white photograph of several newly hatched birds in straw nest in the side of the cliff. Black birds one with mouth opened in center. Paper attatched to the back, “ This Nestful, quite full in fact, of young ravens was photographed on the island. Ravens are year round residents here. Photo courtesy Acadia National Park.
Description: Black Beaver. The back of the photograph is marked: "The beaver is the largest of American rodents. Almost exterminated by the turn of the century, they have now been re-established in the wilder sections of the country. There are several sub-species. This one Castor canadensis canadensis." (Photo Courtesy of Acadia National Park)
Description: Documents. Two booklets and one CD. Booklet 1: Finding Aid for Cranberry Isles Collection, 1596-1982, mostly 1800s, (2003-2006); with letter explaining same. Collection housed at Acadia National Park Headquarters in Bar Harbor, ME, in the William Sawtelle collection. Booklet 2: Finding Aid for Islesford Wharf Collection, Islesford Collection Inc. Collection, U.S. Lifesaving Station Collection (2003-2008); artifacts housed at Acadia Nationa Park Headquarters as above. CD contains digital versions of the fining aids. (See copy of CD and Cranberry Isles Finding Aid in admin file cabinet.) [show more]
Description: A film on DVD about Wendell Gilley, master carver from Southwest Harbor. Title: Gilley: Portrait of a Bird Carver. A documentary story filmed during the construction of the museum built in his honor in 1981. Film by Richard W. Adams, with a 2004 update on the 25th anniversary of the Museum and the centennial of the birth of Wendell Gilley. Running time of 25 minutes.
Description: Portrait of young woman, taken in profile, head slightly bowed. Wears dark wavy hair twisted and pinned back. Also wears thin silver-framed glasses, white lace collar over dark top. Inscription at bottom of case reads, “With deep affection for one of the dearest girls that I have ever known.”
Description: Wedding Quilt, hand embroidered squares cotton, hand sown together. Red embroidery. Center panel embroidered with date 1893. Flowers, birds, animals. Stitched by Addie Murphy. Redwork Embroidery.
Description: Herring gulls are found around the world, not only by the sea, despite often being called "seagulls". There is debate over the herring gull's taxonomic status. American ornithologists lump herring gulls in North America and Europe, while European ornithologists split them. They are often described as scavengers, though there is evidence that individual herring gulls specialize on particular food sources (intertidal, aquaculture, ocean, anthropogenic, freshwater). [show more]
Description: Handwritten on onionskin. Summary history of Somesville written for Northeast Harbor Women's Club. Note states the original was to be kept in Belle Knowles's safe.
Description: Eugene was a twenty year old sailor when this photograph was taken. Possibly he arrived at the port of New London, Connecticut and was exploring?
Description: Four typewritten pages of vital statistics on the families of George and Bethiah Stanley and the family of their son, Sans Stanley and grandson Sans Stanley.
Description: Side view of Wolfe estate, taken from Peabody Drive, near Seal Harbor. Trees and fence in foreground, house in background, partially obscured.
Description: Invoice from A.G. Jewett Automatic Heating and Air Conditioning for labor and materials used at The Sunset Hotel and Restaurant. A handwritten note on the invoice indicates that the bill was paid on May 6, 1937. People Mentioned: A. G. Jewett
Description: Description of Radiates, the Marine animals of Massachusetts Bay, Book marked as belonging to the library of the Harbor Cottages. Inscription on front inside page : Purchased from the proceeds of a concert given by Mr. Hamilton J. Orr of Philadelphia and Mrs. Chas. W. Eliot, July 26, 1890."
Description: Addresses changes in content of current English language and in attitude toward the language including its nature and history, elements, and underlying principles of current usage.
Description: 1 handwritten pages Copy of document shows a short choncology of the S.A.E. and the Champlain Society from 1884-1887 as written by A.L. Rand Secretary.
Description: Sargeant Drive as a dirt road. Constructed by the Northeast Harbor Village Improvement Society between 1897 and 1901 and named for Samuel Duncan Sargeant. Cost: $10,929.73
Description: Snow pile at Main Street and Sea Street. The Des Isles building and Mrs. Flye's Sandwich Shop are in background. The Des Isle building burned in 1965.
Description: Two men shoveling snow from small pond on Birch Way, Northeast Harbor. The pond has been filled in by Tim Taylor. Also called Frogpond, accessed by going up what is now Frog Pond Way.
Description: MDI Hospital, Bar Harbor, ME is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals & Licensed Under Maine State Department of Health & Welfare.
Description: Photo 2190 a: Kimball House in the distance, Magnum Donum Cottage to the right. Photo 2190 b: Unidentified house and view in Northeast Harbor
Description: B/W photographs of "The Ledges" on Huntington Lane, Northeast Harbor. 1961 a is exterior view from water; 1961 b is interior hall and stairwell. Orig. owner Mary G. Williams - 1987 Mrs. Sidney Scott - 2009 Hunter Grayer.
Description: Bound picturebook of photographs from Bar Harbor and Acadia Park. Date of publication unkown. One image labeled "Flying Squadron Mountain" dating the source to between 1929 and the 1940s.
Description: A brief historical sketch of the Town of Vinalhaven from its earliest known settlement. Prepared by order of the town on the occasion of its One Hundredth Anniversary.
Description: Writ summoning The Sunset Hotel and Restaurant Corporation to appear before the State of Maine Justice Superior Court in Ellsworth on the second Tuesday of April 1939. The case involves money the corporation promised to the plaintiff, Angela C. Kaufman. People Mentioned: Angela C. Kaufman, George H. Worster, Norman Shaw
Description: Monograph "Alfred Adler's Individual Psychology" inscribed to Mrs. William R. Fay and autographed by author/daughter Alexandra Gregersen about Adlerian concepts and used in contemporary theory and practice of psychology and psychoanalysis.
Description: Small blueprint, 6.5x10.5, of the state of Maine (showing counties), with Mount Desert Island, specifically Northeast and Seal Harbors highlighted.
Description: Lot plan, 19 1/2x13, of proposed park in Northeast Harbor adjoining properties of Holmes, Kimball, Bradley and Ober. Also mentions I. T. Moore.
Description: Blueprint, 33x21 1/2", of proposed road and park area at the marina in Northeast Harbor. Prepared for the Park Committee (Vance C. McCormick, Gerrish H. Milliken, Lincoln Cromwell and Lewis). Shows creation of Park Street and locations of moved buildings along new street between Main Street and Harbor. Names mentioned include: I. O. O. F., Holmes, Whitmore Cottage, Manchester Bros., Black House, Manchester, Curtis, Ray Foster, O. Ober, C. N. Small, Candage, C. G. Stanley, Smallidge, Brown, Hochberg, Town of Mount Desert, L. E. Kimball, Mount Desert Realty & Mineral Co., Geo. Joy, R. Webber, S. Wood, R. Robbins, Amelia Holmes. [show more]
Description: Alfred Mullikin, C. E. An engineering report to the Building Ordinances Committee of the town of Mount Desert on the character and location of buildings
Description: Sepia Photograph of possibly a 7 or 8th grade class at the Stetson School in Northeast Harbor. Photograph has Paul Bucklin's name on the back.
Description: Photograph of students outside Gilman High School. Given to library by Jean Fernald. Included with other photographs with Paul Bucklin's name on them.