Description: 7 typed pages A recounting of the founding of the Champlain Society by Charles Eliot, purpose of the group, selection of the camp on Mount Desert Island, the set-up of Northeast Harbor at the time, gathering of provisions while on Mount Desert Island. Hand written notes on the last two pages of the document.
Description: 10 hand written scraps Scraps of paper with notes scribbled on them: -Fire Going on Western Mt been going for days -Miss Jean Rand, Mr Brewster at SWH Hop Sat Night -From Bar Harbor, Miss Rand, Miss Ballard, Miss Ridgeway, Miss Daisy Rand, Master Percy Rand, Edgan Crocker, Dr. Otis visits camp Fri July 25, 1984 -Pres Eliot arrives , Prof Gurney, CC Everett, Dyerly, Sasldon, Bo Pierce, Mae Vance, Beudelari, Harvard Faculty? July 24, 1984 -40 minutes to row from SW to NE Harbor two people - Charles Eliot's Log of the Sunshine 1880 -Log of the Sunshine 1877-1880 -Champlain Society 1881 Champlain Society Records of Membership -Champlain Society Records of Cambridge and Boston Meetings. -Champlain Society Camp Pemetic - Mt. Desert Champlain Society [show more]
Description: 1 Typed Page Excerpt fromt he Champlain Society Log book Monday July 4,1881. Details, Raising of the flag at Camp Pemetic, fireworks at Northeast Harbor.
Description: 4x6 piece of paper with hand written note detailing the Champlain Society members and their field of study back in 1880 while they were in Somes Sound.
Description: Three Hand witten pages Discussing Charles W. Eliot II's family and his association with Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park over the last 100 years. How people arrived on Mount Desert Island, begining of tourism on the island, and the need to protect the island.
Description: 2 hand witten pages Letter from C. F. Dunbar to Charles relaying surprise that his father was associated with the Champlain Society and asking for copies of the information Charles has.
Description: 1 typed page Letter from Regina to Charles acknowledgeing reciept of the Hackley Materials, and copy of Romance of Mount Desert. She asks to see the Champlain Society materials.
Description: 14 Hand written pages S.A. Eliot's account of the geology on Mount Desert Island. A historical look at the various geologist who have made a visit to the island starting in 1837 and the various aspects of geology they studied during their time on the island.
Description: Draft of an article for an unknown publication by LaRue Spiker. Ellsworth Doll Museum: Mrs. Dickinson, owner and collector, of more than 500 dolls including chin and bisque dolls. no date Previously archived as 013.FIC.30.20
Description: Typed and annotated in pencil drafts of article written by LaRue Spiker unknown date and publication. Title Wild Gardens of Acadia. Preiously archived as object Id 013.FIC.30.2
Description: Draft of an article written by LaRue Spiker for an unknown publication. No Date. Code of the Sea: 20-page fiction about lobstermen helping each other, cowardice, and redemption. Previously archived as 013.FIC.30.22
Description: Draft of an article submitted to Trailer Life by LaRue Spiker. Armadillos, Alligators, and Squirrels...: Ocala [Florida] National Forest, Juniper Springs Previously archived as 013.FIC.30.28
Description: Typed draft of article written by LaRue Spiker unknown date and publication. Scottish Highland Cattle, an account of Roy Barrett of Brooklin and his cattle. Previously archived as 013.FIC.30.7
Description: Small 4*3in book, leather with autographs of individuals on the island in 1879. Belonged to Willie Heath of Seal Cove Maine. Many have faded but as of 2013 are still legible.
Description: This is a 7 and 1/2 by 10 inch ledger or record book entitled,Junior Endeavor Somesville Beginning Dec 10, 1907 Secretary Abbie Hanna Beginning is empty but the back pages shows members dues? paid and activites the group undertook.
Description: Official Cypher for the Grand Lodge of Masons in Maine. First, Second and Third Degrees. Appears to be some kind of code. 183 pps. 3 x 5, in leather case
Description: Sale by Ambrose A. Stanley to Mary H. Whitmore of lot in SW Harbor (1887); Sale by Mary Whitmore to Warren Whitmore, Joseph Whitmore, John Whitmore, and Emma Whitmore land in Town of Mt. Desert (1914); Sale by Ansel Manchester to Warren Whitmore in Northeast Harbor (Town of Mount Desert), 1887 Letter from A.H. Lyman to Sans S. Whitmore enclosing receipt for $5.00, which Sans's son paid to him; letter also states that the mortgage is enclosed. 1899 Includes 1915 receipt for $570.66 (based upon CPI equals 13636.68 in 2016) from Smalley, Hobbs & Hunter Marble and Granite Cemetery Works for curbing (?) and posts, marker and inscription; note from A.H. Lynam indicating enclosure of two deeds from the late Sans S. Whitmore, and brief undated newspaper clipping noting the death of Mary H. Whitmore in Seal Harbor. [show more]
Description: Six-page manuscript about the history of Seal Harbor, its hotels, summer residents, homes (cottages), workers, library and how the summer and year-round residents worked closely together. The author notes that this is the text of a talk she gave for an Acadia Senior College course on the history of MDI. No date is given for the manuscript or for the talk.