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Item Title Type Subject Description Creator Date Property Name Street Pages Medium Condition
1936Ensign Ben Bunker, Mount Desert, and The Cranberry Isles
  • Publication, Other Publication
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places, Island
This is a second in a series of Occasional Papers to be published under the auspices of the Islesford Historical Society. It was given to Anne Haynes who gave it to the Northeast Harbor Library.
  • Theodore Spurling Sr.
  • Aug-91
  • 19
  • typescript
Ensign Ben Bunker, Mount Desert, and The Cranberry Isles
Item:
  • 1936   
Type:
  • Publication, Other Publication
Subject:
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places, Island
Creator:
  • Theodore Spurling Sr.
Date:
  • Aug-91
Place:
  • Cranberry Isles
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0449
Location:
  • General Collection Box 15
Pages:
  • 19
Medium:
  • typescript
Description:
This is a second in a series of Occasional Papers to be published under the auspices of the Islesford Historical Society. It was given to Anne Haynes who gave it to the Northeast Harbor Library.
6465Woman's Literary Club Papers
  • Document, Genealogy Records
  • Organizations, Religious
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
...History of Mount Desert, subjects covering Churches, Lighthouses, Artists, Poets, Transportation, Authors & Educators...
Woman's Literary Club Papers
Item:
  • 6465   
Type:
  • Document, Genealogy Records
Subject:
  • Organizations, Religious
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
Collection:
  • Suminsby Genealogical Records
Object ID:
  • 80
Location:
  • Suminsby Genealogical Records Subject File
Description:
...History of Mount Desert, subjects covering Churches, Lighthouses, Artists, Poets, Transportation, Authors & Educators...
6962Edsel Ford's Bright Idea - Mount Desert joins the War effort
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Other, Military, World War II
  • People
Down East Magazine article about Edsel Fords's plan to keep an army of Mainers employed during World War II. Published June 1995.
  • Letitia Baldwin
  • 1995
  • page 52
  • magazine
Edsel Ford's Bright Idea - Mount Desert joins the War effort
Item:
  • 6962   
Type:
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
Subject:
  • Other, Military, World War II
  • People
Creator:
  • Letitia Baldwin
Date:
  • 1995
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0792
Location:
  • General Collection Box 25
Pages:
  • page 52
Medium:
  • magazine
Description:
Down East Magazine article about Edsel Fords's plan to keep an army of Mainers employed during World War II. Published June 1995.
1879Manchester Family
  • Document, Genealogy Records
  • Other, History
  • People
...History of the Manchester family from 1650's in Rhode Island to 1931 in Maine...
  • Minnie Manchester
  • 12
  • typescript
Manchester Family
Item:
  • 1879   
Type:
  • Document, Genealogy Records
Subject:
  • Other, History
  • People
Creator:
  • Minnie Manchester
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0393
Location:
  • General Collection Box 13
Pages:
  • 12
Medium:
  • typescript
Description:
...History of the Manchester family from 1650's in Rhode Island to 1931 in Maine...
7051Waymouth Tercentenary
  • Publication, Book
  • Events
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places
...An account of the celebration of the landing of George Waymouth on the coast of Maine. (Scanned copy in part from archive.org)...
  • 53
  • 1 book
  • fair
Waymouth Tercentenary
Item:
  • 7051   
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Events
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places
Collection:
  • Special Collection Books
Object ID:
  • SCB 974.1 WAY
Location:
  • Shelf 6A3
Pages:
  • 53
Medium:
  • 1 book
Condition:
  • fair
Description:
...An account of the celebration of the landing of George Waymouth on the coast of Maine. (Scanned copy in part from archive.org)...

File Attachment:
SCB 974.1 WAY.pdf
…right spot, and shouts " May Maine I 1 Historical Society ? …great way ( as it then seemed, and as we after found it vp into the maine we might discerne very high mountaines, though the maine seemed but low land …George's River, and to no other on our Maine coast. …" The This first group of islands nearer to the main land.
1986List of Civil War Soldiers from the town of Mount Desert
  • Document, List
  • Other, History
  • Other, Military, Civil War
  • People
Original, elongated, list of men furnished by the town of Mt. Desert by the selectmen for military service in the Civil War. The list represents several calls to duty from 1862 to 1869.
  • Jonathan Hamor
  • 1-2-1869
  • 1
  • manuscript (original and 2 photocopies)
List of Civil War Soldiers from the town of Mount Desert
Item:
  • 1986   
Type:
  • Document, List
Subject:
  • Other, History
  • Other, Military, Civil War
  • People
Creator:
  • Jonathan Hamor
Date:
  • 1-2-1869
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0499
Location:
  • General Collection Box 16
Pages:
  • 1
Medium:
  • manuscript (original and 2 photocopies)
Description:
Original, elongated, list of men furnished by the town of Mt. Desert by the selectmen for military service in the Civil War. The list represents several calls to duty from 1862 to 1869.
6762RECORD OF HONORABLE DISCHARGES; WORLD WAR II; TOWN OF MOUNT DESERT
  • Document, Government, Military Record
  • Other, History
  • Other, Military, World War II
  • People
Discharge papers for Mt. Desert residents who served in WW II; alphabetical; also contains an envelope with newspaper clippings from Bangor Daily News March 9, 1943 listing Mt. Desert men in the armed services Green cloth cover with red leather corners
  • 1945
RECORD OF HONORABLE DISCHARGES; WORLD WAR II; TOWN OF MOUNT DESERT
Item:
  • 6762   
Type:
  • Document, Government, Military Record
Subject:
  • Other, History
  • Other, Military, World War II
  • People
Date:
  • 1945
Collection:
  • Town Records
Object ID:
  • none
Location:
  • 1D7
Description:
Discharge papers for Mt. Desert residents who served in WW II; alphabetical; also contains an envelope with newspaper clippings from Bangor Daily News March 9, 1943 listing Mt. Desert men in the armed services Green cloth cover with red leather corners
7059New Vineyard and Strong Register - 1902
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places
...History-census reprinted and distributed by the Western Somerset Historical Society, David Bishop, President, Box 92, North New Portland, Maine 04961...
  • H. E. Mitchell, E. K. Woodard
  • 1902
  • 47
  • 1 booklet
  • good
New Vineyard and Strong Register - 1902
Item:
  • 7059   
Type:
  • Publication, Booklet
Subject:
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places
Creator:
  • H. E. Mitchell, E. K. Woodard
Date:
  • 1902
Collection:
  • Special Collection Books
Object ID:
  • SCB 974.1 NVS
Location:
  • Shelf 6A3
Pages:
  • 47
Medium:
  • 1 booklet
Condition:
  • good
Description:
...History-census reprinted and distributed by the Western Somerset Historical Society, David Bishop, President, Box 92, North New Portland, Maine 04961...
7060Kingfield Register - 1902
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places
...History-census reprinted and distributed by the Western Somerset Historical Society, David Bishop, President, Box 92, North New Portland, Maine 04961...
  • H. E. Mitchell
  • 1902
  • 30
  • 1 booklet
  • good
Kingfield Register - 1902
Item:
  • 7060   
Type:
  • Publication, Booklet
Subject:
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places
Creator:
  • H. E. Mitchell
Date:
  • 1902
Collection:
  • Special Collection Books
Object ID:
  • SCB 974.1 KIN
Location:
  • Shelf 6A3
Pages:
  • 30
Medium:
  • 1 booklet
Condition:
  • good
Description:
...History-census reprinted and distributed by the Western Somerset Historical Society, David Bishop, President, Box 92, North New Portland, Maine 04961...
2208The Greatest Generation
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Other, Military, World War II
  • People
...Supplemental publication to the Ellsworth American and Mount Desert Islander of World War II Veteran profiles...
  • Stephen Fay, Editor
  • 11/9/2006
  • newspaper
The Greatest Generation
Item:
  • 2208   
Type:
  • Publication, Newspaper
Subject:
  • Other, Military, World War II
  • People
Creator:
  • Stephen Fay, Editor
Date:
  • 11/9/2006
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0722
Location:
  • General Collection OS Box 3
Medium:
  • newspaper
Description:
...Supplemental publication to the Ellsworth American and Mount Desert Islander of World War II Veteran profiles...
1997A Playground Contested; Bar Harbor Natives versus Rusticators, 1875-1925
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places, Island
...Manion submitted for publication in Island History Journal contrasting the economic and social life of summer and year-round residents of Mount Desert...
  • Lynne Nelson Manion
  • 2001
  • 18
  • typescript
A Playground Contested; Bar Harbor Natives versus Rusticators, 1875-1925
Item:
  • 1997   
Type:
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
Subject:
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places, Island
Creator:
  • Lynne Nelson Manion
Date:
  • 2001
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0509
Location:
  • General Collection Box 17
Pages:
  • 18
Medium:
  • typescript
Description:
...Manion submitted for publication in Island History Journal contrasting the economic and social life of summer and year-round residents of Mount Desert...
1473Men Who Died for Their Country
  • Document, Advertising, Poster
  • Object, Sign
  • Other, Military, Civil War
  • People
...Below the soldier are names of 26 men from Mount Desert who died during the war...
  • Josh Blanchard, John Sweeney
  • 1 poster (in 3 parts)
Men Who Died for Their Country
Item:
  • 1473   
Type:
  • Document, Advertising, Poster
Subject:
  • Object, Sign
  • Other, Military, Civil War
  • People
Creator:
  • Josh Blanchard, John Sweeney
Collection:
  • Art Collection
Object ID:
  • ART 0022
Location:
  • Art OS Box 1, 4E6
Pages:
  • 1 poster (in 3 parts)
Description:
...Below the soldier are names of 26 men from Mount Desert who died during the war...
6142Eleazer Higgins 1768 (?)-1840 Thomas Kelley 1745(?)-1813
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • People
...Booklet complied by a member of Mayflower Society of Maine, Daughters of the American Revolution & a member of the Bangor Historical Society...
  • Mrs. Edward W. Ames
  • 1958
  • 24
  • 1 book
Eleazer Higgins 1768 (?)-1840 Thomas Kelley 1745(?)-1813
Item:
  • 6142   
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, History
  • People
Creator:
  • Mrs. Edward W. Ames
Date:
  • 1958
Collection:
  • Special Collection Books
Object ID:
  • SCB 929 AMES
Location:
  • Shelf 6A4/6A5
Pages:
  • 24
Medium:
  • 1 book
Description:
...Booklet complied by a member of Mayflower Society of Maine, Daughters of the American Revolution & a member of the Bangor Historical Society...
6103Memorial of Champlain Discoverer of Mt. Desert, 1604-1904
  • Publication, Book
  • Object, Site Marker, Monument
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places, Island
...Grey booklet about the memorial to Samuel de Champlain, discoverer of Mount Desert Island...
  • 1906
  • 1 book
Memorial of Champlain Discoverer of Mt. Desert, 1604-1904
Item:
  • 6103   
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Object, Site Marker, Monument
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places, Island
Date:
  • 1906
Collection:
  • Special Collection Books
Object ID:
  • SCB 719 MEMORIAL
Location:
  • Shelf 6A4/6A5
Pages:
  • 1 book
Description:
...Grey booklet about the memorial to Samuel de Champlain, discoverer of Mount Desert Island...
2164Resort Town War-Minded
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Events
  • Other, Military, World War II
  • People
  • Places, Town
...Several clipped articles about the 1943 war time activity in the Town of Mount Desert...
  • 1943
  • newspaper
  • fair
Resort Town War-Minded
Item:
  • 2164   
Type:
  • Publication, Clipping
Subject:
  • Events
  • Other, Military, World War II
  • People
  • Places, Town
Date:
  • 1943
Place:
  • Mount Desert
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0677
Location:
  • General Collection OS Box 2
Medium:
  • newspaper
Condition:
  • fair
Description:
...Several clipped articles about the 1943 war time activity in the Town of Mount Desert...
1952Stephen Smallidge Letter (kindness of Lucy H. Smith)
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Military, Civil War
  • People
...Stephen Smallidge (May 30 1842-December 20 1908) of Northeast Harbor enlisted on March 11 1864 in the Maine Volunteer Regiment...
  • 1864
  • 6
  • photocopy
Stephen Smallidge Letter (kindness of Lucy H. Smith)
Item:
  • 1952   
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
Subject:
  • Other, Military, Civil War
  • People
Date:
  • 1864
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0465
Location:
  • General Collection Box 15
Pages:
  • 6
Medium:
  • photocopy
Description:
...Stephen Smallidge (May 30 1842-December 20 1908) of Northeast Harbor enlisted on March 11 1864 in the Maine Volunteer Regiment...
1904Re-enacting
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Events
  • Other, Military, Civil War
  • People
...Smith was actively involved with the Maine Civil War Company reenactment group...
  • Joseph Smith
  • 1983
  • pages 56-59
  • newspaper
Re-enacting
Item:
  • 1904   
Type:
  • Publication, Clipping
Subject:
  • Events
  • Other, Military, Civil War
  • People
Creator:
  • Joseph Smith
Date:
  • 1983
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0417
Location:
  • General Collection Box 13
Pages:
  • pages 56-59
Medium:
  • newspaper
Description:
...Smith was actively involved with the Maine Civil War Company reenactment group...
1896Letters to Ada Emerson
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Events
  • Other, Military, Civil War
  • People
...to his mother, Ada Emerson, in Indian River, ME describing his Civil War encampment with the Maine 10th Regiment at Camp Washburn, MD & Harper's Ferry,...
  • Henry Kelley
  • 1859-1864
  • photocopy
Letters to Ada Emerson
Item:
  • 1896   
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
Subject:
  • Events
  • Other, Military, Civil War
  • People
Creator:
  • Henry Kelley
Date:
  • 1859-1864
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0409
Location:
  • General Collection Box 13
Medium:
  • photocopy
Description:
...to his mother, Ada Emerson, in Indian River, ME describing his Civil War encampment with the Maine 10th Regiment at Camp Washburn, MD & Harper's Ferry,...
7127Genealogy of the Gamble Family
  • Document, Genealogy Records
  • Other, History
  • People
...Excerpt of "The Mount Desert Widow - Genealogy of the Gamble Family", by Greenleaf and Jonathan P. Cilley...
  • 1895
  • 2 clippings
  • fair
Genealogy of the Gamble Family
Item:
  • 7127   
Type:
  • Document, Genealogy Records
Subject:
  • Other, History
  • People
Date:
  • 1895
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0801
Location:
  • General Collection Box 25
Medium:
  • 2 clippings
Condition:
  • fair
Description:
...Excerpt of "The Mount Desert Widow - Genealogy of the Gamble Family", by Greenleaf and Jonathan P. Cilley...
5423Local Civil War Soldiers
  • Image, Photograph
  • Other, History
  • Other, Military, Civil War
  • People
...Scanned photographs of area Maine Militia and Civil War soldiers...
  • 1842-1860's
Local Civil War Soldiers
Item:
  • 5423   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Other, History
  • Other, Military, Civil War
  • People
Date:
  • 1842-1860's
Place:
  • Mount Desert Island
Collection:
  • Photograph
Object ID:
  • Photo 1829
Location:
  • Photograph Filing Cabinet
Description:
...Scanned photographs of area Maine Militia and Civil War soldiers...
2049Manchester and Branscom Family History
  • Document, Legal, Deed
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Town
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Vessels, Steamboat
...Contents of Curtis Phelps Collection: CD1: - Main Street: 5 B/W images of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - 13 images of Northeast Harbor and Mount...Steamer Mount Desert...
  • 17 pages, 2 CDs
Manchester and Branscom Family History
Item:
  • 2049   
Type:
  • Document, Legal, Deed
Subject:
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Town
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Vessels, Steamboat
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0563
Location:
  • CD Box 1, General Collection Box 17
Pages:
  • 17 pages, 2 CDs
Description:
...Contents of Curtis Phelps Collection: CD1: - Main Street: 5 B/W images of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - 13 images of Northeast Harbor and Mount...Steamer Mount Desert...
1534Frances H. Eliot - "Her Book and Heart" (1871-1954)
  • Publication, Literary, Memoir
  • Other, History
  • People
...(October 22, 1889-1939) - The glory that is Cambridge - The romance of street names in Cambridge - Patriarchal picnics - I remember Mount Desert...
  • Frances H. Eliot
  • bound typescript
Frances H. Eliot - "Her Book and Heart" (1871-1954)
Item:
  • 1534   
Type:
  • Publication, Literary, Memoir
Subject:
  • Other, History
  • People
Creator:
  • Frances H. Eliot
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0043 FHE
Location:
  • General Collection Box 2
Medium:
  • bound typescript
Description:
...(October 22, 1889-1939) - The glory that is Cambridge - The romance of street names in Cambridge - Patriarchal picnics - I remember Mount Desert...
1958Bar Harbor, Celebrating 200 Years in Eden
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Events
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Park
  • Places, Town
...Maps of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island Magazine available in the Archives...
  • Mark Condon
  • 2001
  • 48
  • magazine
Bar Harbor, Celebrating 200 Years in Eden
Item:
  • 1958   
Type:
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
Subject:
  • Events
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Park
  • Places, Town
Creator:
  • Mark Condon
Date:
  • 2001
Place:
  • Bar Harbor
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0470
Location:
  • General Collection Box 15
Pages:
  • 48
Medium:
  • magazine
Description:
...Maps of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island Magazine available in the Archives...
7095Expeditions of Capt. John Lovewell
  • Publication, Book
  • Events
  • Other, History
  • People
The Expeditions of Capt. John Lovewell and his encounters with the Indians; including a particular account of the Pequauket Battle, with a history of that Tribe; and a reprint of Rev. Thomas Symmes Sermon.
  • Frederic Kidder
  • 1865
  • 138
  • 1 book
  • good
Expeditions of Capt. John Lovewell
Item:
  • 7095   
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Events
  • Other, History
  • People
Creator:
  • Frederic Kidder
Date:
  • 1865
Collection:
  • Special Collection Books
Object ID:
  • SCB 974 KID
Location:
  • Shelf 6A3
Pages:
  • 138
Medium:
  • 1 book
Condition:
  • good
Description:
The Expeditions of Capt. John Lovewell and his encounters with the Indians; including a particular account of the Pequauket Battle, with a history of that Tribe; and a reprint of Rev. Thomas Symmes Sermon.

File Attachment:
SCB 974 KID.pdf
…And it came to pafs on the morrow, when the Philiflines came toflrip the Slain, that they found Saul and his three Sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. …at laft, upon mount Gilboa. …And we that tarry at home muft get into the Mount and Pray for 'em. …over fixteen years, in the various tribes, which is preferved in the "Maine Hiftorical Collections."
7053New England Old and New 1620-1920
  • Publication, Book
  • Events
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places
A brief review of some historical and industrial incidents in the Puritan "New English Canaan," still the Land of Promise. Published by the Old Colony Trust Company of Boston, commemorating the Tercentenary of the First Landing at Plymouth in 1620 (MCMXX).
  • Maine Historical Society
  • 1920
  • 63
  • 1 book
  • good
New England Old and New 1620-1920
Item:
  • 7053   
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Events
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places
Creator:
  • Maine Historical Society
Date:
  • 1920
Place:
  • New England
Collection:
  • Special Collection Books
Object ID:
  • SCB 974.1 PLY
Location:
  • Shelf 6A3
Pages:
  • 63
Medium:
  • 1 book
Condition:
  • good
Description:
A brief review of some historical and industrial incidents in the Puritan "New English Canaan," still the Land of Promise. Published by the Old Colony Trust Company of Boston, commemorating the Tercentenary of the First Landing at Plymouth in 1620 (MCMXX).