Description: A history of the last 100 years from the pages of the "Ellsworth American", which is a weekly paper produced in Ellsworth, Maine.
File Attachment: GEN 0685.pdf …voted to accept Winter Harbor as a member. …later run by Edna Norris as The Winter Harbor Inn. …Maddocks would the long winter evenings .... …Most winter car accidents are caused by a loss of grip.
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.
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 …But there arc lingering among us a few aged perfons who well remember, that, in the clays of their childhood, while the family were gathered for a winter …it awakened fuch an intenfe intereft in their breafts, that the lifieners were almoft carried back to the fcene of the encounter, and fiarted as the winter …The Government of Maffachufetts determined to arreft him; and, in the winter of 1722, Colonel Weftbrook led a force to that place, but Rafle was not to …THESE our Worthy Friends could endure Hardnefs as good Soldiers: And were well able to Encounter the Fatigues of Long Marches, both in Winter and Summer
Description: Attributed to Ezra A. Dodge. Downloaded from archive.org. NEHL has a spiral bound photocopy of poor quality
File Attachment: 6444.pdf …upon the growth one hundred per cent, faster than the growing faster even than the people are aware kiln-woowinter …chose for his work, lumbering in winter and farming in summer. He Was of the Scotch-Irish descent, and Capt. Somes of the English.
Address delivered at the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, November 4, 1876 and in convention of the Legislature of Maine, February 6, 1877, by Joshua L. Chamberlain; with a communication from the governor and the Report of the Centennial Commission. Published by order of the Legislature of Maine of February 7, 1877. (Scanned copy in part from archive.org)
Description: Address delivered at the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, November 4, 1876 and in convention of the Legislature of Maine, February 6, 1877, by Joshua L. Chamberlain; with a communication from the governor and the Report of the Centennial Commission. Published by order of the Legislature of Maine of February 7, 1877. (Scanned copy in part from archive.org)
File Attachment: SCB 974.1 CH.pdf …Croix river, Thus it Avas a now on first winter on an island in the borders of the State of Maine. …The winter was one of exThe death of their governor, George traordinary severity. …If fur England, as said above, the colonists left in such numbers the first winter. …Severe winters and late springs for agricultural products, ened the farmers.
Loring, Short & Harmon's illustrated guide book for Mount Desert Island (before Acadia National Park). With 5 mounted photographs. Fourth edition (1879). Sixth edition (1885).
Description: Loring, Short & Harmon's illustrated guide book for Mount Desert Island (before Acadia National Park). With 5 mounted photographs. Fourth edition (1879). Sixth edition (1885).
File Attachment: SCB 917 MAR.pdf …The story of its fate, remote, alone, on a winter's night, makes, from the lips of the islanders, a tale only less graphic than that now passing from the …Their numbers have heretofore been considerably diminished, by reckless attacks upon them in the winter, when the snow ren- MOUNT DESERT. 41 dered them …~. . ,,,~ - . . :. .-.J -=-~ IN old times, Somesville, with a stage and a mail twice a week, even in winter, was on the high-road of travel …Leave Boston in Summer at 7 P.M. " " in Winter at 5 P, l\I. Leave Portland at 7 P. M., throughout the year.
...Gymkhana brochure, August 13, 1904 -- benefit for the Northeast Harbor Winter Reading Room These items were passed down from Katharine Lowell Roosevelt...
Description: ...Gymkhana brochure, August 13, 1904 -- benefit for the Northeast Harbor Winter Reading Room These items were passed down from Katharine Lowell Roosevelt...
Description: Written by R. G. F. Candage, Brookline, Mass. Printed for the Blue Hill Historical Society (Scanned copy in part from archive.org)
File Attachment: SCB 974.1 CAN.pdf …Except In the time of the late war, and a school master every winter. …Wood, by contract, in which the writer attended winter school under the teachings of C. C. Long, Fred A. Darling and others. …The house and place remains in the famand is rented to summer residents for the season and closed winters. …William Norton was also his teacher John one winter in the same district.
Description: Tercentenary of the Landing of the Popham Colony at the mouth of the Kennebec river. August 29, 1907. (Scanned copy in part from archive.org)
File Attachment: SCB 974.1 POP.pdf …After severe escaped the extreme rigors of a northern was reduced to a handful of disheartened men by sick- hardships, though winter, itself at The …Croix, where the colony built a fort and some houses, and passed a single winter with much sickness, and suffering, and destitution. …Thirty-six of the little band perished miserably during the unexampled severity of the winter, and it is no wonder that the few survivors were unwilling …on of winter. the coast.
Local residents on the ice at Lower Hadlock Pond, mostly children, standing with an ice boat behind them with sails raised. From left: Dan McEachern, Claire McBride, Irving Young, Cora Frost, Margaret Kimball, Emmons Iveney. Back Row: Ralph Hamor, Russell Manchester. Front Row: Pearl Iveney, Leonice Brown, Lurline Stanley, Margaret McEachern, Elizabeth Stanley, Augustus Phillips, Natalie Tinker, William Reynolds, Lester Lurvey, Parker Fennelly, Archie Coombs-Edwin Tracy, Roy Moore.
Description: Local residents on the ice at Lower Hadlock Pond, mostly children, standing with an ice boat behind them with sails raised. From left: Dan McEachern, Claire McBride, Irving Young, Cora Frost, Margaret Kimball, Emmons Iveney. Back Row: Ralph Hamor, Russell Manchester. Front Row: Pearl Iveney, Leonice Brown, Lurline Stanley, Margaret McEachern, Elizabeth Stanley, Augustus Phillips, Natalie Tinker, William Reynolds, Lester Lurvey, Parker Fennelly, Archie Coombs-Edwin Tracy, Roy Moore. [show more]
Their Builders, Owners, and Captains. A glance at an interesting phase of the American Merchant Marine so far as it relates to Boston. With 30 black and white illustrations of ships. (Scanned copy in part from archive.org)
Description: Their Builders, Owners, and Captains. A glance at an interesting phase of the American Merchant Marine so far as it relates to Boston. With 30 black and white illustrations of ships. (Scanned copy in part from archive.org)
File Attachment: SCB 387 STA.pdf …hours. to In the winter of 1854 and 1855 she ran from Liverpool Melbourne in 63 days, and home in 69, thus circumnavigat- ing the globe in the record
Development of what is now Acadia National Park. Article provides history and descriptions of the area covered under the U.S. Monuments Act of 1906. (Scanned copy in part from archive.org)
Acadia National Park, Sieur de Monts National Monument
Collection:
Special Collection Books
Object ID:
SCB 719 DORR
Location:
Shelf 6A4/6A5
Pages:
64
Condition:
good
Description: Development of what is now Acadia National Park. Article provides history and descriptions of the area covered under the U.S. Monuments Act of 1906. (Scanned copy in part from archive.org)
File Attachment: SCB 719 DORR.pdf …on alpine heights the herbaceous plants that shelter their life beneath the ground in winter bloom with a brilliancy and flourish with a vigor rarely found …As we passed onward through this singular valley, occasional torrents, formed by the rains and dissolving snows at the close of winter, had left behind
Description: ...Photo 0855 a: winter scene. Shows cottage from the south west with kitchen entrance and porch. Photo 0855 b: this is also a winter scene...
...Seventeen (a-q) 4"x 6' photographs of Northeast Harbor and Somes Sound during the heavy snow and ice of winter 1923...Some snow and ice of winter 1923...
Description: ...Seventeen (a-q) 4"x 6' photographs of Northeast Harbor and Somes Sound during the heavy snow and ice of winter 1923...Some snow and ice of winter 1923...
Description: Steamboat Wharf in Northeast Harbor showing a coast guard icebreaker making a passageway for steamboat when Somes Sound iced over in 1923.