Description: Photograph of E. Farnham Butler in his office at Mount Desert Yacht Yard, circa 2003. On the table in front of him are photographs of boats built by Butler at his yard over the course of his career.
Description: Kimball family owned Kimball House Hotel and rented many cottages in Northeast Harbor. The village of Sound is across from Somes Sound and had a stone Episcopal Church and a school house.
Description: Mount Desert Yacht Yard began as a yacht storage and repair business, but became a design and building yard, particularly during the late 1940s and 1950s because of Butler and associates, Ted Earl and Cy Hamlin.
Description: Mailed to: Miss Frances King Manset, Maine Text reads: “Glad your mother is better. Will write soon. Love to yourself and mother. M. W.” Nov. 9, 1905 Mailed to: Miss Lottie King Manset, Maine Sep. 2, 1906
Description: Blueprint, 27x21 1/2", of property lots on Somes Sound between Brown's Cove and Sargeant Cove extending from the Sound across Sargeant Drive to east of the county road. Enlarged from U.S. C & G. survey chart.
Description: Lot map, 20x15 1/2", tissue, showing properties of Sanders and Scott on eastside of Somes Sound. From 1871 geodetic survey. Shows Thomas Rd, Thomas property (Clara Fargo Thomas), Bar Island/Pryor's Island, Sheep Island, Bordeaux, Little Squantum Cove.
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