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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
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.
2041Hancock County... a Rockbound Paradise
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Other, History
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Town
...Copy of book section about the history of Mount Desert, specifically Seal Harbor. Many Photographs: J. D...
  • Connie Jellison
  • 1990
  • 5
  • photocopy
Description:
...Copy of book section about the history of Mount Desert, specifically Seal Harbor. Many Photographs: J. D...
7191Asticou Celebratory Menu 1604-1954
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Events, Gala
  • Other, History
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Inn
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
...Asticou Celebratory Menu, in French and English, in honor of the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Island of Mount Desert...
  • 1954
  • 8
  • 1 menu
  • good
Description:
...Asticou Celebratory Menu, in French and English, in honor of the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Island of Mount Desert...
7326Woman's Literary Club Collection - Box 1
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Organizations, Civic, Club
  • Other, Literature
  • People
...Author Unknown - Appreciation of the Fine Arts - History of Mount Desert Island - History of Mount Desert Island with notes and drafts - The Manchester...Easter of My Life, by Edith Favour - The First Americans and the Men from Outer Space, 1974, by Edith Favour - The Herring Gull, by Edith Favour - Mount...Gilley - Re*Papers on Local History (1940), by Edith S. Gilley - Written for Stella L. Hill (1941), by Edith S...Gilley - Red Cross History, by Winifred Graves...
  • manuscripts, typescripts, letters, news clippings, photographs
Description:
...Author Unknown - Appreciation of the Fine Arts - History of Mount Desert Island - History of Mount Desert Island with notes and drafts - The Manchester...Easter of My Life, by Edith Favour - The First Americans and the Men from Outer Space, 1974, by Edith Favour - The Herring Gull, by Edith Favour - Mount...Gilley - Re*Papers on Local History (1940), by Edith S. Gilley - Written for Stella L. Hill (1941), by Edith S...Gilley - Red Cross History, by Winifred Graves...


File Attachments:
WLC Box 1.pdf
…BOX 1 (legal-size document box) WLC Typescripts and Manuscripts Title (topic), date Untitled (Appreciation of Fine Arts) Untitled (History of Mount DesertIsland) Untitled (History of Mount Desert Island) w/ notes and drafts Manchester Ancestry Untitled (Mythology) Untitled (Thanksgiving) Author unknown …1986 The Easter of My Life The First American and the Men from Outer Space, 1974 The Herring Gull (published in GFWC Clubwoman), 1990 with merit award MountDesert Families in 1775-76, 1975 The Record-maker, 1985 Robins Are Singing in the Rain September Song, 1990 with merit award Wabanaki Artisans, 1980 Untitled
2172The American Century
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Other, History
  • Places
...A history of the last 100 years from the pages of the "Ellsworth American", which is a weekly paper produced in Ellsworth, Maine...
  • 12/30/1999
  • newspaper
  • good
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
…-EA, Nov. 16, 1949 MOUNT DESERT ISLAND 1/ISTORICAL SOCIETY Mount Desert Island High School Basketball Team, 1934-35. …off the south shore of Mount Desert Island, saw what he described as a "gray ghost." …MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY Steamer Mount Desert leaving Island House dock, Southwest Harbor, early in the century. …She first came to Mount Desert Island in 1942 and it was on the island that she completed "Memoirs of Hadrian" (1951).
7052Tercentenary of the Landing of the Popham Colony at the mouth of the Kennebec river
  • Publication, Book
  • Events
  • Other, History
  • Places
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)
  • Maine Historical Society
  • 1907
  • 58
  • 1 book
  • fragile
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
…as Popham's fort was This permission was granted, and subse- quently the War Department cal Society a sufficient the yard of Fort donated to the Histori …Captain John Smith until the arrival of reinforcements fi-om England but even then, only a year and eight months after spirit of ; the northern colony deserted …The " Fair English town " too " of fifty houses, with its church and fort mounted and entrenched " has dwindled to fifteen buildings of all kinds, the …It is the recognition of an interesting and significant event in colonial history, and a tribute to the memory of men whose enterprise and bravery are
5086MDI Service Men in Guam
  • Image, Photograph
  • Other, History
  • Other, Military, World War II
  • People
...Photograph is a scan of Photograph appearing in Kathy Cavness weekly column in the Mount Desert Islander...
  • 1944
Description:
...Photograph is a scan of Photograph appearing in Kathy Cavness weekly column in the Mount Desert Islander...
6990A Visit Among Islanders - Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • Events, Performance
  • Other, Literature
...(Islesford) Elizabeth Carlson (Swan's Island) Bob Quinn (Eagle Island) Includes old favorites by: Robert W...Service, Ruth Moore, Holman Day (by Jeff McKeen) Rachel Field, poems from childhood (by Ted Spurling) Original poems from Swan's Island (by Betty Carlson...) Several other original poems of Eagle Island (written in the 1930's by Bonney Quinn, read from the original manuscript by his nephew, Bob Quinn)...
  • 11.20.1999
Description:
...(Islesford) Elizabeth Carlson (Swan's Island) Bob Quinn (Eagle Island) Includes old favorites by: Robert W...Service, Ruth Moore, Holman Day (by Jeff McKeen) Rachel Field, poems from childhood (by Ted Spurling) Original poems from Swan's Island (by Betty Carlson...) Several other original poems of Eagle Island (written in the 1930's by Bonney Quinn, read from the original manuscript by his nephew, Bob Quinn)...
1958Bar Harbor, Celebrating 200 Years in Eden
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Events
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Park
  • Places, Town
...An island on fire 6. An education in ecology 7. Searching for a rustic life 8. A Cottage culture 9. A tale of Two Labs 10...Maps of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island Magazine available in the Archives...
  • Mark Condon
  • 2001
  • 48
  • magazine
Description:
...An island on fire 6. An education in ecology 7. Searching for a rustic life 8. A Cottage culture 9. A tale of Two Labs 10...Maps of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island Magazine available in the Archives...
7367Woman's Literary Club Collection - Box 17
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Scrapbook
  • Organizations, Civic, Club
  • Other, Other Texts
  • People
2 scrapbooks of the Woman's Literary Club of Northeast Harbor: - Green, 1960's-1970's - Marbled white, 1970s-1980s Contain news clippings, letters, awards, photographs.
  • 1960s-1980s
  • Scrapbooks
Description:
2 scrapbooks of the Woman's Literary Club of Northeast Harbor: - Green, 1960's-1970's - Marbled white, 1970s-1980s Contain news clippings, letters, awards, photographs.


File Attachments:
Scrapbook 1 Box 17.pdf
…New officers of the Mount Desert Island Federation and Hancock County Union of Women's Club (RIGHT PHOTO) are, left to right, Mrs. …Ladies from Mount Desert Island taking part in the Mount Desert Island Federation and Hancock County Union of Women's Clubs at the Union Congregational …Morison's "Story of Mount Desert Island." …Richard Smith, retiring president of the Mount Desert Island Federation, spoke briefly of the 54th annual meeting at Bucksport. Mrs.

Scrapbook 2 Box 17.pdf
…After the business meeting. members responded to a Roll Call on Mount Desert Island artists. Mrs. …Mount Desert) 6.30 p.m. …John Phelps served refreshments in the teacher's room after club members left the rehearsal. as Maritime History of Mount Desert Island as researched …With such a background it was very natural that he chose to speak on Birds of Mount Desert Island.
7366Woman's Literary Club Collection - Box 16
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Scrapbook
  • Organizations, Civic, Club
  • Other, Other Texts
  • People
2 scrapbooks of the Woman's Literary Club of Northeast Harbor: - Green with flowers in a vase, 1930's-1950's - Red with crowns, 1950s-1960s Contain news clippings, photographs.
  • 1930s-1960s
  • Scrapbooks
Description:
2 scrapbooks of the Woman's Literary Club of Northeast Harbor: - Green with flowers in a vase, 1930's-1950's - Red with crowns, 1950s-1960s Contain news clippings, photographs.


File Attachments:
Scrapbook 1 Box 16.pdf
Desert Island! …Manchester has spent her entire life on Mount Desert Island, the past 63 at Northeast Harbor. …Desert Island. Mrs. …Paul Favour, jr. will read her mother's paper, "The Development of Mount Desert Island as a Summer Resort', written by Mrs.

Scrapbook 2 Box 16.pdf
…He loved Mount Desert Island The service was conducted by the club president, Mrs. …Rlchard Savage, club president, for 'the Mount Desert Public Health Nursing Service, the Mount Desert Island Child Guidance Association and the purchase …of Mount Desert by Street, the Story of Mount Desert Island, by Samuel Eliot Morison, John Gilley, by _ Char! …D. 155, "An Act Relating to Bow and Arrow Hunting on Mount Desert Island, Hancock County."
6994Larry Wescott Postcard Collection
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Other, Aerial
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Road
  • Places, Town
  • Structures, Transportation, Bridge
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • Vessels, Boat
...The Ashland road to the east of 2440' Mount Chase points north. Aerial photograph. 2...The Burnham Tavern, built in 1770 by Job Burnham is the oldest building in eastern Maine and the only one with Revolutionary history...Highway One, this view across Frenchman Bay shows part of the Mount Desert Hills. 1532 foot Cadillac Mountain, center, in Bar Harbor, is the highest land...Main Street points north, east of Mount Chase. Aerial photograph. 40...
  • Augustus D. Phillips, Robert Charlton, John Veltri, Margot Heugebauer, Donald B. Phillips, Luther Phillips
  • 62 Postcards
Description:
...The Ashland road to the east of 2440' Mount Chase points north. Aerial photograph. 2...The Burnham Tavern, built in 1770 by Job Burnham is the oldest building in eastern Maine and the only one with Revolutionary history...Highway One, this view across Frenchman Bay shows part of the Mount Desert Hills. 1532 foot Cadillac Mountain, center, in Bar Harbor, is the highest land...Main Street points north, east of Mount Chase. Aerial photograph. 40...
7361Woman's Literary Club Collection - Box 11
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Scrapbook
  • Organizations, Civic, Club
  • Other, Other Texts
  • People
Scrapbook in commemoration of the 80th year of the Woman's Club of Northeast Harbor. Contains manuscripts, typescripts, news clippings, photographs, programs.
  • 1988
  • Brown ring binder
Description:
Scrapbook in commemoration of the 80th year of the Woman's Club of Northeast Harbor. Contains manuscripts, typescripts, news clippings, photographs, programs.


File Attachment:
Scrapbook Box 11.pdf
Desert Island's first settlers, James Richardson, she was fascinated with the island's history as well as that of the Maine Indian .She spent most of her …Desert Island's first settlers, James Richardson in 1762, she was fascinated and knowledgeable of the island's history as well as that …Third and fourth places were awarded to Dorie Cross and Erica Wells from Mount Desert Island High School. …Third and founb places were awarded to Dorie Cross and Erica Wells from Mount Desert Island High School.
7362Woman's Literary Club Collection - Box 12
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Scrapbook
  • Organizations, Civic, Club
  • Other, Other Texts
  • People
Scrapbook of the Woman's Club of Northeast Harbor. Contains manuscripts, typescripts, news clippings, photographs, programs.
  • 1993-1996
  • Antique pink ring binder
Description:
Scrapbook of the Woman's Club of Northeast Harbor. Contains manuscripts, typescripts, news clippings, photographs, programs.


File Attachment:
Scrapbook Box 12.pdf
…Lacey was sponsored by the Woman's Club of Northeast Harbor, the Mount Desert Literary Club and the Mount Desert Rotary Club. …Desert Island hospital. …Wright named Maine. leadership delegate" MOUNT DESERT Mount Desert Island High School sophomore Annie Wright has been named the Maine representative to …Coombs The Hancock County and Mount Desert Island Union Prospect Harbor Meeting President Mrs. Hugh M. Gilley Mrs. Robert E.
7363Woman's Literary Club Collection - Box 13
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Scrapbook
  • Organizations, Civic, Club
  • Other, Other Texts
  • People
Scrapbook of the Woman's Club of Northeast Harbor. Contains manuscripts, typescripts, news clippings, photographs, programs.
  • 1993-1996
  • Red ring binder
Description:
Scrapbook of the Woman's Club of Northeast Harbor. Contains manuscripts, typescripts, news clippings, photographs, programs.


File Attachment:
Scrapbook Box 13.pdf
…The annual awards ceremony was held Tuesday night at the Mount Desert Island High School. …The Museum contains prehistoric artifacts from Frenchman Bay area and Mount Desert Island. …Desert Island Hospice of Hancock County will hold a 6-week volunteer training program on Mount Desert Island. …Wendy Mount Desert Island High School. Walls. Craig Wescott and Scott Willey.
7364Woman's Literary Club Collection - Box 14
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Scrapbook
  • Organizations, Civic, Club
  • Other, Other Texts
  • People
Scrapbook of the Woman's Club of Northeast Harbor. Contains manuscripts, typescripts, news clippings, photographs, programs. November 1983 through December 1987.
  • 1983-1987
  • Red ring binder
Description:
Scrapbook of the Woman's Club of Northeast Harbor. Contains manuscripts, typescripts, news clippings, photographs, programs. November 1983 through December 1987.


File Attachment:
Scrapbook Box 14.pdf
Desert Island. …Desert Island Hospital, January 26, 1984. …a out-y course. . r Mount Desert Interested ldwn 1? …Desert Island High School who is a resident of the Town of Mount Desert.
6888Woman's Literary Club Collection
  • Collection
  • Organizations, Civic, Club
  • Other, Literature
  • People
...Club members actively wrote papers (many award-winning) ranging from poetry to local family histories and biographies of famous artists...
  • 17 boxes (11 legal-size document boxes, 3 record carton boxes, 4 flat storage boxes)
  • manuscripts, typescripts, letters, annual meeting notes, scrapbooks, news clippings, photographs, meeting programs, photographs, objects
Description:
...Club members actively wrote papers (many award-winning) ranging from poetry to local family histories and biographies of famous artists...


File Attachment:
WLC Collection Finding Aid.pdf
…of Mount Desert Island) Untitled (History of Mount Desert Island) w/ notes and drafts Manchester Ancestry Untitled (Mythology) Untitled (Thanksgiving) …Hill Address at Southwest Harbor Neighborhood House to the Mount Desert Island Federation of Women s Clubs Stella L. …of Mount Desert Island, 1949 Norman Rockwell Maine Summer Resorts The Northeast Harbor Library, 1933 Wills Milling and Shipping Industries of Mount Desert …Off Mount Desert, 1933 E.
5409Bart Dyer on defense cannon at Schooner Head
  • Image, Photograph
  • Other, History
  • Other, Military, World War I
  • People
B/W photograph of Bart Dyer sitting on a coastal defense cannon at Schooner Head. The cannon, and another on Egg Rock, were in place during WWI.
  • Fred Pervear
  • 1938
Description:
B/W photograph of Bart Dyer sitting on a coastal defense cannon at Schooner Head. The cannon, and another on Egg Rock, were in place during WWI.
5423Local Civil War Soldiers
  • Image, Photograph
  • Other, History
  • Other, Military, Civil War
  • People
Scanned photographs of area Maine Militia and Civil War soldiers. Photo 1829 a: Colonel William Edwin Hadlock, Little Cranberry Isle Photo 1829 b: Samuel T. Savage, enlisted 8-21-1862 Photo 1829 c: Augustus Chase Savage, Acting Lieutenant, US Navy 1864-1865 Photo 1829 d: Thomas Savage, 1842-1865 (from a tintype) See item 2051/GEN 0565
  • 1842-1860's
Description:
Scanned photographs of area Maine Militia and Civil War soldiers. Photo 1829 a: Colonel William Edwin Hadlock, Little Cranberry Isle Photo 1829 b: Samuel T. Savage, enlisted 8-21-1862 Photo 1829 c: Augustus Chase Savage, Acting Lieutenant, US Navy 1864-1865 Photo 1829 d: Thomas Savage, 1842-1865 (from a tintype) See item 2051/GEN 0565