Description: Note from a client to Fred Savage ca 1922 relating to plans for a home in Redlands Ca. Original drawings are in Northeast Harbor Library collection 2012 exhibit text: Home, Mary Pearl Evens Cramp Redlands, CA, ca 1921 Ink and ink wash on vellum. The Gerrish Collection, Northeast Harbor Library These sketches show Savage's development of a more sophisticated rendering style and facility to work in different styles. Two elevation studies for the same owner and the same floor plan are renditions of the Spanish Colonial Revival style typical of California. One study utilizes long horizontal roof lines, while the other emphasizes towers and dormers which produce a less horizontal composition [show more]
Description: Plans, elevations and details for certain alterations to an extistng house ( Thirlstane) owned by Col.Edward Morrell. Total prints There are two folders, one with blueprints and the other with original pencil and ink on vellum drawings of details for the later alterations in 1899 and 1900 by F.L. Savage
Description: Relates to 001.74.755 Stable: Ink on linen four elevations, three plans and a detail of a truss. Tea House: One drawing with plans, elevations and details.
Description: Pencil on tracing paper drawing of an elevation of a gambrel roof profile house (partial elevation) most likely an addition to an existing house. No markings to firmly attribute to Savage.
Description: Letters to and from clients and tourists. Advertising letters to publications. Poor condition Most are letters to or from potential advertisers, clients and tourists. Most letters are in poor condition, but relate to the efforts on the part of the Bar Harbor Board of Trade to promote Bar Harbor as a tourist destination. Sample of organizations include: The Real Estate Register, St Louis Glob Democrat, Springfield Republican, Town Topics (the Journal of Society), The Times ( of London). . Also inclluded are hand written accounts of dues, receipts for printing and other activites of the Board of Trade. [show more]
Description: Letters from and to clients, and tourists. Advertising letters. Poor condition. Most are letters to or from potential advertisers, clients and tourists. Most letters are in poor condition, but relate to the efforts on the part of the Bar Harbor Board of Trade to promote Bar Harbor as a tourist destination. Sample of organizations include: Ask Maine Steamship Co., Ketterlinus Lithographic Company, Letter of resignation from Ralph Kingsley, La Presse ( French Canadian (tourist agent), Maine Woods and Woodsman Association. Also inclluded are hand writen accounts of dues, receipts for printing and other activites of the Board of Trade. [show more]
Description: Letter from George M Campbell, Chief of Police, Ellsworth, Maine, to Elmer Cousins giving him permission to go through Northeast Harbor to pick up their belongings and return to Ellsworth. Dated October 23, 1947
Description: Per introduction by Robert Pyle: "Written in the 1930's and scanned from a copy preserved by Elmer H. Cousins and supplies by his nephew Dana R. Haynes in 2012." Refers to numerous people and places.
Description: Harrriet Somes Sanderson's scrapbook containing a report of Mrs. Eben Hamor's death, many wedding invitations (including Agnes Somes' marriage to Frank Foley), disappearance of Paul Atherton of Somesville after his wedding, recipes, clippings, bits of fabric.
Description: Collection of 13 plays; titles are: A Case for Sherlock Holmes by Gladys Ruth Bridgham Caste by T.W. Robertson Cousin Faithful by Julie M. Lippmann A Scrap of Paper, Comic Drama in three acts by J. Palgrave Simpson His Heroine by Margaret Louise Holbrook The Snowball, a Farce-Comedy in three acts, by Sydney Grundy Betsy Baker by J. Maddison Morton The Trouble at Satterlee's by Louise Latham Wilson The White Silhouette and other acting monologues, by Evangeline M. Lent The Blundering Mr. Brown, a comedy in three acts, by Harold Hale If I Had A Thousand A Year, by J.M. Morton The Brixton Burglary, by Frederick W. Sidney Billy's Bungalow, by Eleanor Maud Crane A Kettle of Fish (adapted from the German), by Franz von Schonthan Parted by Patience, by Bessie Blair Smith [show more]
Description: Sale of lot and buildings in Tremont (South West Harbor) by Arthur L. Somes to Lewis Somes for sum of $1286.00 (to be paid over five years). Boundaries of same described; same lot previously sold to him by James A. and James B. Freeman
Description: Sale by James A. Freeman and James R. Freeman of Tremont for one dollar and "other valuable consideration" paid by Arthur L. Somes of described lot to him.
Description: Arthur L. Somes paid $35.00 for Lot #28, Section I in Mount Height Cemetery, Southwest Harbor. Signed by Lawrence D. Phillips, Treasurer of Cemetery Association.
Description: Register of Somes House Inn 1929-1959. Date when given to Historical Society is unknown. Blank pages at end of Register. Gift of Keating Pepper - see sheet in front