Description: Looking along Somesville's Main Street with Harbor at left. Same scene as item 5011/photo 1403. Taken for "Mt. Desert: an Informal History"
Otter Creek causeway from eastern shore. Lobster boat moorings accessed from Park Loop Road. Lobstermen from Otter Creek. Bridge and causeway are part of Acadia National Park. Photograph taken for "Mount Desert: an informal history".
Description: Otter Creek causeway from eastern shore. Lobster boat moorings accessed from Park Loop Road. Lobstermen from Otter Creek. Bridge and causeway are part of Acadia National Park. Photograph taken for "Mount Desert: an informal history".
Description: Exact same photograph as Photo 1429/item 5037 taken to show changes from 1914 to 1988. Building at right is current restaurant and post office.
Looking south on Main Street with Brown's Hardware, Northeast Plumbing, the Post Office, Swan Agency Real Estate office, and the Holmes Store on left. On right is the Bar Harbor Bank and Trust Co. Autos in Photograph.
Description: Looking south on Main Street with Brown's Hardware, Northeast Plumbing, the Post Office, Swan Agency Real Estate office, and the Holmes Store on left. On right is the Bar Harbor Bank and Trust Co. Autos in Photograph.
Description: Looking toward the head of Northeast Harbor. Taken from Savage boat builders, of pleasure and working boats on mooring. Town dock is on left.
MDES band, under the direction of Don Wood, marches down Main St., Northeast Harbor in the Memorial Day Parade. Students in front row (L-R): David Hawes on Tuba; Chris Tracy, Eric Ordway and Louisa Pyle on Trombones.
Description: MDES band, under the direction of Don Wood, marches down Main St., Northeast Harbor in the Memorial Day Parade. Students in front row (L-R): David Hawes on Tuba; Chris Tracy, Eric Ordway and Louisa Pyle on Trombones.
Description: Northeast Harbor's town dock with yachts and work boats moored in the harbor and, in distance, a sail boat race. Clifton dock is right center.
A blue pamphlet containing a bicentennial speech written and delivered by Robert Suminsby. It contains some history of the town and a great deal of "colorful" notes of folks.
Description: A blue pamphlet containing a bicentennial speech written and delivered by Robert Suminsby. It contains some history of the town and a great deal of "colorful" notes of folks.
This is a weekly newspaper produced since 1914. It is MDI's hometown newspaper. Each issue contains local town news. This copy has great interview with Sen. Mitchell.
Description: This is a weekly newspaper produced since 1914. It is MDI's hometown newspaper. Each issue contains local town news. This copy has great interview with Sen. Mitchell.
Copy of R. Lunt article appearing in book "By Land and By Sea; Studies in the Folk-lore of Work and Leisure. ( R. D Abrahams, ed.) Dedicated to Horace Beck on his 65th birthday.
Description: Copy of R. Lunt article appearing in book "By Land and By Sea; Studies in the Folk-lore of Work and Leisure. ( R. D Abrahams, ed.) Dedicated to Horace Beck on his 65th birthday.
Description: Article about the origins and purpose of the Maine Seacoast Mission's boat, Sunbeam, which visits outlying islands providing spiritual services.
Storefronts on Main Street in Northeast Harbor, Maine. The Street Façade drawing by architect Perry Benson represents the commercial life of Northeast Harbor on the west side of Main Street at the end of the 1988 season. See attachment No. 1 for more details.
Description: Storefronts on Main Street in Northeast Harbor, Maine. The Street Façade drawing by architect Perry Benson represents the commercial life of Northeast Harbor on the west side of Main Street at the end of the 1988 season. See attachment No. 1 for more details.
Detailed account of the move of the Reef Point Garden of Beatrix Farrand to the Thuya Garden in Northeast Harbor, supervised by Charles Savage. Published in "Garden Design", Spring 1988
Description: Detailed account of the move of the Reef Point Garden of Beatrix Farrand to the Thuya Garden in Northeast Harbor, supervised by Charles Savage. Published in "Garden Design", Spring 1988
Article with photographs of several formal gardens, public and private, on Mount Desert Island. Beatrix Jones Farrand, renowned landscape architect, designed as many as 40 gardens on the island. Published in Connoisseur, August 1984.
Description: Article with photographs of several formal gardens, public and private, on Mount Desert Island. Beatrix Jones Farrand, renowned landscape architect, designed as many as 40 gardens on the island. Published in Connoisseur, August 1984.
Edna Hysom of Pretty Marsh recalls the story of the disappearance of Capt. Edwin Rumill of Pretty Marsh from the schooner Rumill from the schooner "Harry A. Berwind" off the North Carolina coast in 1905. Published in Down East Magazine, September 1989.
Description: Edna Hysom of Pretty Marsh recalls the story of the disappearance of Capt. Edwin Rumill of Pretty Marsh from the schooner Rumill from the schooner "Harry A. Berwind" off the North Carolina coast in 1905. Published in Down East Magazine, September 1989.
Description: Detail of the parade celebrating the Bicentennial of the Town of Mount Desert listing time, assembly area, map of parade route and the parade line-up.