Description: A first edition copy 'Place Names of Mount Desert Island and the Cranberry Islands, Maine' written by Henry A. Raup. Published by Mount Desert Island's Historical Society.
Description: Program of the Academic Recognition and Awards night at the high school. Special "Graduation Keepsake Edition" of the Bar Harbor Times with 2010 student photographs.
Description: New England Association of Schools and Colleges - Commission on Public Secondary Schools Report of the Visiting Committee, Mount Desert Island School, May 4-7, 2003
Description: Album of Thomas Hall photos given to Mrs. August Belmont. The photographs show transition of season into fall on Mount Desert Island. Black and silver bamboo-print cloth cover.
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.
Description: Elly Andrews interviews 4 of Roc Caivano's close friends from his Yale years: Bob Knight, Peter Woerner, Tom Carey, and Ron Filson. Roc received his BA from Dartmouth College and a Master of Architecture degree from Yale University. He and and wife Helen arrived on MDI in 1974 where he was hired to start a program in Environmental Design at the College of the Atlantic. While at COA, Roc, Barbara Sassaman and Harris Hyman established an office in Southwest Harbor where they were involved in the renovation of the Turrets, a granite shorefront “cottage” designed by Bruce Price and originally built in 1895. They also created the Wendell Gilley Museum, the Somesville bridge and a number of single family residences. For over 45 years Roc Caivano Architects prepared the master plan for Acadia National Park, the renovation and conversion of the Schoodic Navel Station in to the Schoodic National Park Education Center, Acadia’s Fee Station and the Island Explorer Bus Shelter System, the Mary Dow and MDI Hospital Oncology Centers and other medical and educational facilities. [show more]
Description: A log of the Tracy visit from New York to Mount Desert island from July 30th - September 4th of 1855. Includes commentary by George B Dorr. Three documents.
Description: Account book kept by W.S. Brown, master of the schooner J.S. Butler, and other vessels. Includes references to cargoes carried, ports visited, and men employed on the schooner. Also includes records of expenditures, mostly for food, but some references to items like knives. Brown may be William Sheldon Brown but additional research is needed. The book may have been used at an earlier time, as several pages have be ripped out, and Brown's name is found in pencil with the date of 1880 near the beginning [show more]