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You searched for: Date: 1940sSubject: Structures
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Tracy Cottage
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • S. E. Tracy
  • 1945
Tracy Cottage
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Rough sketch of 2 level floor plan of the Tracy Cottage. Note indicating inking done by BSK (Belle Smallidge Knowles).
Three Postcards of Bear Island Lighthouse
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • 1945
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Three Postcards of Bear Island Lighthouse
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Description:
Three real photo postcards of Bear Island Lighthouse affixed to a repurposed envelope. On all of the postcards the lighthouse is identified using blue ink. One postcard bears the additional inscription: "Our view from the point." The backside of this paper was at one time the exterior of envelope sent on June 4, 1945. Information about the sender and recipient can still be read. The return address has been cut, but the envelope was sent to Mrs. Edwin Corning, Northeast Harbor, Maine. Mrs. Corning spent her summers on a point at the mouth of Northeast Harbor [show more]
The Chester Warren Stanley and Philip Tracy Carroll Children Looking Across Main Street
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • 1945 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Left to Right: Judith “Judy” May Carroll (1935-), later Mrs. Joseph T. Stockbridge Jr. Nancy Eleanor Stanley (1934-2022), later Mrs. Raymond Eugene Robbins, Jr. Irene Mabel Stanley (1933-), later Mrs. Carol Carter Murphy Myrna Lorraine Stanley (1942-2022), later Mrs. Karl Julius Ritterskamp Sally Camilla Carroll (1933-), later Mrs. Harold Alan Fernald Jr. Nancy Jane Carroll (1936-), later Mrs. Joseph Mello Cynthia Farnham Carroll (1937-2005), later Mrs. Robert Allen Aikman III Esther Laverne Stanley (1936-1984), later Mrs. Michael Willis The children are sitting on the lawn of the Adoniram Judson Robinson house at 376 Main Street, Southwest Harbor, watching a moving van at the Arthur L. Somes house across the street. [show more]
Mount Desert High School
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • Structures, Institutional, School
  • Frank Irving Cooper Associates
  • 1948
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Mount Desert High School
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Architectural details drawings, floor plans, plot plan, section.
Mount Desert High School
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • Structures, Institutional, School
  • Frank Irving Cooper Associates Architects
  • September 1948-1949
Mount Desert High School
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Elevation, wall detail in class room, first floor electrical plan, ground floor heating plan 1 list of equipment ordered
Wooden laundry agitator stick
Tremont Historical Society
  • Object, Maintenance, Laundry Agitator
  • Other, Household items
  • Structures, Commercial, Shop, Laundry
  • 1940s
Wooden laundry agitator stick
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
Wooden forked stick used for stirring or agitating laundry in a laundry bucket.
Proposed Boatman's House for Northeast Harbor Fleet
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • Structures, Transportation, Boathouse
  • Putnam, Griswold, Wylde & Ames
  • 1948
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Photograph of The Briars
Bar Harbor Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • 1940 c.
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Photograph of The Briars
Bar Harbor Historical Society
Description:
Black and white photograph of the water-facing elevation of The Briars, a summer cottage located along the Shore Path. The Briars was built in 1881 and was designed by architect William Ralph Emerson. The original owner was J. Montgomery Sears, but it was later owned by Evalyn Walsh McLean.
Northeast Harbor Fleet Dock, Northeast Harbor, Maine
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
  • 1948
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
Northeast Harbor Fleet Dock, Northeast Harbor, Maine
Photograph of the Horace Jayne Cottage
Bar Harbor Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • 1940 c.
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Undetermined
Photograph of the Horace Jayne Cottage
Bar Harbor Historical Society
Description:
Black and white photograph of the Jayne Cottage, Bar Harbor. Photograph is slightly blurry, and house is obscured by trees. The Jayne Cottage was designed by W. Ralph Emerson and built in 1887-1887. First owner was Dr. Horace Jayne. On back side of photograph is written: Jayne Cottage Jesups (sic) where Brown now lives In ink is written: Please return to Palmer + Hall Real Estate + Insurance 28 Cottage St Bar Harbor, Maine It should be noted that the reference to the Jesup cottage is incorrect. [show more]
House for Mrs. Jerome Knowles
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Projection, Plan
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • George Savage
  • 1943
House for Mrs. Jerome Knowles
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Exterior parchment sketch on mat board, 20x14", of house for Mrs. Jerome Knowles. See also Item 2479.
House for Mrs. Jerome Knowles
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Projection, Plan
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • George Savage
  • 1947
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
House for Mrs. Jerome Knowles
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Five blueprint of home for Mrs. Jerome Knowles showing exterior elevations and two level floor plan. See also Item 2596
Knowles residence
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Projection, Plan
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • 1940
  • Mount Desert Island
Knowles residence
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Unidentified blueprints of exterior elevations and three level floor plans of a house. Mailed by Asa Knowles in 1940 to Mrs. Jerome Knowles in Northeast Harbor.
Landscape of Property of William Elder Marcus Jr.
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Projection, Plan
  • Other
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Avis Campbell
  • 1940
  • Mount Desert, Seal Harbor
Description:
Blueprint, 34x25.5", of landscape design on property of William Marcus, Jr. in Seal Harbor.
Belmont Hotel
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Projection, Plan
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Richard W. Sherman
  • 1941
  • Bar Harbor
Belmont Hotel
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Two different sets of parchment drawings of the three-level floor plan of the Belmont Hotel in Bar Harbor.
MacKay Residence
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Projection, Plan
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Ambrose S. Higgins
  • 1947
  • Southwest Harbor
MacKay Residence
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Nine blueprints (several duplicates) and three parchment tracings, 23x17", of multilevel floor plans of the MacKay house, "Tide Bell" at Hancock Point.
Apartment alterations for Mrs. Berkeley LeV Allen
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Projection, Plan
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Ambrose S. Higgins
  • 1946
  • Bar Harbor
Description:
Blueprint, 24x16", of alteration plans for apartments for Mrs. Berkeley Allen.
House for Mrs. L. F. Crofoot
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • George Savage
  • 1945
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
House for Mrs. L. F. Crofoot
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Preliminary plans and estimate specifications for a house to be built for Mrs. L. F. Crofoot at Wheelwright point, Northeast Harbor. House was never built.
Northeast Harbor Library
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • Structures, Civic, Library
  • George Savage
  • 1947
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
Northeast Harbor Library
The Bar Harbor Directory
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places, Town
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • F. C. Fearing
  • 1947
  • Bar Harbor
The Bar Harbor Directory
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Cottage directory. Scan: Cover, first pages only.
Probably William Eugene Ward and Leslie Hamblen Ward
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • 1940 c.
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Franklin Ward's Children at the Franklin Ward Machine Shop, Manset
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • 1940
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Property of Mrs. Horace Green
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Projection, Plan
  • Other
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Maurice Burr
  • 1947
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Property of Mrs. Horace Green
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Blueprint, 35x17", of "Juniper Ledge", property of Mrs. Horace Green at Wesson's Point, Northeast Harbor. Adjoining lots: Mary W. Williams and heirs of Daniel Kimball.
The Birches
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Projection, Plan
  • Other
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • 1940's
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
The Birches
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Plot plan, 20 1/2x29" on parchment, of "The Birches" off Manchester Road on Somes Sound. Circa 1940's it was listed on Knowles maps as owned by Yarnall; in 2009 it's listed Bouscaren, Clark, Webster as "Treetops"
Property off Sea St. proposed for Consolidated High School
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Projection, Plan
  • Other
  • Structures, Institutional, School
  • Herbert Thomas
  • 1940
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
Blueprint, 28x24", showing contours of land, and lots, south of Sea Street proposed for Consolidated High School. It is also titled "topographical map of the Sea Street area." Names listed include: Proctor Smallidge, L. E. Kimball, Crushing Plant, Stella Hill, I. T. Moore, E. C. Ober, C. N. Small.