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Item Title Type Subject Description Creator Date Property Name Street Pages Medium Condition
7090Paths and Trails of Northeast Harbor, Seal Harbor and Vicinity
  • Document, Advertising, Brochure
  • Places, Hiking Trail
  • Places, Town
Brochure published by the Trails Committees of the Mount Desert Chamber of Commerce and the Seal Harbor Village Improvement Society.
  • 1954
  • 9
  • good
Description:
Brochure published by the Trails Committees of the Mount Desert Chamber of Commerce and the Seal Harbor Village Improvement Society.
1684Edsel B. Ford Mount Desert Island Estate
  • Document, Advertising, Brochure
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
Developed by Lynam Realtors for the sale of the Edsel Ford estate in Seal Harbor, brochure has many photographs and drawings. Following Ford, owners of "Skylands" have been Skylands have included Edward Leed and Martha Stewart.
  • Fred C. Lynam Co.
  • ca. 1950
  • 12
  • 1 book
Description:
Developed by Lynam Realtors for the sale of the Edsel Ford estate in Seal Harbor, brochure has many photographs and drawings. Following Ford, owners of "Skylands" have been Skylands have included Edward Leed and Martha Stewart.
6874In Memory of Samuel Atkins Eliot 1862-1950
  • Document, Announcement, Obituary
  • Events, Memorial Service
  • People
  • 7/16/1950
  • 7
  • typescript
2090Letter to Kathryn Knowles from Belle S. Knowles
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • People
Letter from Belle S. Knowles to her granddaughter about Daniel Coit Gilman.
  • 1951
  • 2
  • photocopy
Description:
Letter from Belle S. Knowles to her granddaughter about Daniel Coit Gilman.
1797Letter from Samuel Eliot Morison to Gertrude Fay
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
About material for the library collection. Signature of Samuel Morison.
  • 1959
  • 2
  • typescript
Description:
About material for the library collection. Signature of Samuel Morison.
7182Benjamin Graves Record Books
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Businesses, Building Business
Box 1 Record book A, 1897-1909 Record book B, Oct. 1902-Oct. 1903 Record book C, 1927-1929 Record book D, 1925-1927 Record book E, 1931-1935 Record book F, 1929-1931 Record book G, 1932 Record book H, 1951 Includes database of clients and works (see uploaded pdf file): Information from Benjamin Graves'work done in the village and on Mount Desert Island from around 1897 through 1951. Much of this time was before reinforced concrete was widely adopted, so while the ledger detail includes other materials, "stone" is a common denominator. Labor rates and other local masons names are shown, as well as early rusticators. Bishop Doane, the Episcopal Church, Pres. Eliot and others' work is laid out.
  • 1897-1951
  • 1 box - 8 ledgers
  • ledger books
Description:
Box 1 Record book A, 1897-1909 Record book B, Oct. 1902-Oct. 1903 Record book C, 1927-1929 Record book D, 1925-1927 Record book E, 1931-1935 Record book F, 1929-1931 Record book G, 1932 Record book H, 1951 Includes database of clients and works (see uploaded pdf file): Information from Benjamin Graves'work done in the village and on Mount Desert Island from around 1897 through 1951. Much of this time was before reinforced concrete was widely adopted, so while the ledger detail includes other materials, "stone" is a common denominator. Labor rates and other local masons names are shown, as well as early rusticators. Bishop Doane, the Episcopal Church, Pres. Eliot and others' work is laid out. [show more]
1947The National Red Cross Building Deed
  • Document, Legal, Deed
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Structures, Institutional, Health Facility
The deed transferring the Red Cross Building in Northeast Harbor to Mount Desert Public Health Nursing Association.
  • Fred A. Winfrey
  • 4/14/1950
  • 2
  • photocopy
Description:
The deed transferring the Red Cross Building in Northeast Harbor to Mount Desert Public Health Nursing Association.
1594Northeast Harbor Alarm Call Card
  • Document, List
  • Organizations, Civic, Municipal
  • Places, Town
Manila card, compliments of Haynes Garage, sent to community residents and businesses with the fire alarm location signals.
  • 1950's
  • 1
Description:
Manila card, compliments of Haynes Garage, sent to community residents and businesses with the fire alarm location signals.
1485Story of Mount Desert Island
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Places, Town
This collection contains Morison's handwritten speech and his edited typed copy of the talk on Mount Desert Island history he gave in 1959 to benefit island libraries. The speech and notes became his book by the same name. Presented by S. E. Morison, 1973.
  • Samuel Eliot Morison
  • 1959
  • 79
  • manuscript
Description:
This collection contains Morison's handwritten speech and his edited typed copy of the talk on Mount Desert Island history he gave in 1959 to benefit island libraries. The speech and notes became his book by the same name. Presented by S. E. Morison, 1973.
2085The Life of Belle Smallidge Knowles
  • Document, Memorabilia
  • People
Biography of Belle S. Knowles by her granddaughter Kathryn as part of her Gould Academy senior thesis.
  • Kathryn F. Knowles
  • 1952
  • 34
  • bound typescript (photocopy)
Description:
Biography of Belle S. Knowles by her granddaughter Kathryn as part of her Gould Academy senior thesis.
6966Northeast Harbor Fleet
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Photograph Album
  • Organizations
  • Places, Harbor
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
72 B/W and sepia photographs of the Northeast Harbor Fleet around the clubhouse and under sail. Photographs of IOD's Collection brought to the library in 1998 and are listed as coming from the fleet and Joe Grant. See also item 5458 2: Aquila NEH #2 on mainsail only 4: The "30 M" clearly IDs this boat as a 30 sq m, but the M3 probably denotes it as NEH #3, which is Herman Hessenbruch's Agile 8: Three 30 sq m beating into the wind. Agile NEH #2, in the foreground, tacking to starboard while the other hulls are going to port. The left-most boat looks like NEH #6. The wake behind #2 suggest it had just turned smartly. Also note #2's conspicuous large donut life ring on the stern deck 9: see also photo 1156 q 11/55: Flying Cloud 10/49: Vixen III 16: Sagamore 18/42: Vayu 19: Light air amid a pre-race pileup of yacht racing classes, including Aquila NEH #2, and Nordic II NEH #4 23: Sagamore 26: Aquila NEH #2, probably taken minutes after Photo 1852 NEHF 43. Shows the slight curvature of the upper mast, a characteristic of square meter boats 29/30/37: Niliraga 41: Thistle 43: Aquila NEH #2. The much larger boat in the background (white hull) is not a 30 sq. m. 45: Nancy, Agile. Hessenbruch's jib-less Agile NEH #3 being passed by light-hull NEH #6 51: 30 M #5, with a white hull, running and leading NEH #2 Aquila 53: Another view at the race start of Photo 1852 NEHF 55, showing the same boats in the same order left to right. This would be the start of the big boats racing over the same course. It looks like three other 30 sq. m. are racing given the bent upper masts 55: X 42, 4th from left, is a sail number designation (with an X) that was common for 30 sq. m. boats imported from Germany during the early 1930s. X 42 could be (?) the Gluckauf, the boat purchased and renamed as US3 Visitor by L. Francis Herreshoff. Also in the starting line is the 40 sq. m. NEH #2 Tsana III (holding the actual floating line) 56: Malcom N. Stanley's boat, winner class B, August series 57: Blue Hill, 1933 58: Nymph 59: Old Mack B, 1933 62: Class B yachts approaching finish line 67-71: Start of a Northeast Harbor race in the Summer of 1958
  • 1936-37 and 1958
Description:
72 B/W and sepia photographs of the Northeast Harbor Fleet around the clubhouse and under sail. Photographs of IOD's Collection brought to the library in 1998 and are listed as coming from the fleet and Joe Grant. See also item 5458 2: Aquila NEH #2 on mainsail only 4: The "30 M" clearly IDs this boat as a 30 sq m, but the M3 probably denotes it as NEH #3, which is Herman Hessenbruch's Agile 8: Three 30 sq m beating into the wind. Agile NEH #2, in the foreground, tacking to starboard while the other hulls are going to port. The left-most boat looks like NEH #6. The wake behind #2 suggest it had just turned smartly. Also note #2's conspicuous large donut life ring on the stern deck 9: see also photo 1156 q 11/55: Flying Cloud 10/49: Vixen III 16: Sagamore 18/42: Vayu 19: Light air amid a pre-race pileup of yacht racing classes, including Aquila NEH #2, and Nordic II NEH #4 23: Sagamore 26: Aquila NEH #2, probably taken minutes after Photo 1852 NEHF 43. Shows the slight curvature of the upper mast, a characteristic of square meter boats 29/30/37: Niliraga 41: Thistle 43: Aquila NEH #2. The much larger boat in the background (white hull) is not a 30 sq. m. 45: Nancy, Agile. Hessenbruch's jib-less Agile NEH #3 being passed by light-hull NEH #6 51: 30 M #5, with a white hull, running and leading NEH #2 Aquila 53: Another view at the race start of Photo 1852 NEHF 55, showing the same boats in the same order left to right. This would be the start of the big boats racing over the same course. It looks like three other 30 sq. m. are racing given the bent upper masts 55: X 42, 4th from left, is a sail number designation (with an X) that was common for 30 sq. m. boats imported from Germany during the early 1930s. X 42 could be (?) the Gluckauf, the boat purchased and renamed as US3 Visitor by L. Francis Herreshoff. Also in the starting line is the 40 sq. m. NEH #2 Tsana III (holding the actual floating line) 56: Malcom N. Stanley's boat, winner class B, August series 57: Blue Hill, 1933 58: Nymph 59: Old Mack B, 1933 62: Class B yachts approaching finish line 67-71: Start of a Northeast Harbor race in the Summer of 1958 [show more]
7407Northeast Harbor Lodge No. 208 F. & A. M.
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Photograph Album
  • Organizations
  • People
Cover: History of Northeast Harbor Lodge No. 208 F. & A. M. Northeast Harbor, Maine. From November 3, 1903 to December 31, 1954 Compiled and written by William S. Holmes, Post Master & Secretary 1. Short history of Northeast Harbor Lodge No. 208 (typescript) 2. Petition Form 3. Application for Degrees 4. Notices 5. Vouchers 6. Northeast Harbor Lodge No. 208 room 7. L-R: Ed Walsh and Dave Stanley, receiving the "Horace E. Bucklin" award 8. L-R: Ed Walsh and Dave Stanley 9. Dave Stanley, Secretary, Northeast Harbor Lodge No. 208
  • 1954
  • booklet, documents, photographs
Description:
Cover: History of Northeast Harbor Lodge No. 208 F. & A. M. Northeast Harbor, Maine. From November 3, 1903 to December 31, 1954 Compiled and written by William S. Holmes, Post Master & Secretary 1. Short history of Northeast Harbor Lodge No. 208 (typescript) 2. Petition Form 3. Application for Degrees 4. Notices 5. Vouchers 6. Northeast Harbor Lodge No. 208 room 7. L-R: Ed Walsh and Dave Stanley, receiving the "Horace E. Bucklin" award 8. L-R: Ed Walsh and Dave Stanley 9. Dave Stanley, Secretary, Northeast Harbor Lodge No. 208 [show more]
3838Mount Desert Elementary Souvenir Scrapbook
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Scrapbook
  • Organizations, School Institution
Souvenir scrapbook of Mount Desert High School, 1951 donated by architect Gregory Cooper, of the building and dedication of Mt. Desert Elementary School. Loose Photographs and clippings included.
  • 1951
  • Black binder
Description:
Souvenir scrapbook of Mount Desert High School, 1951 donated by architect Gregory Cooper, of the building and dedication of Mt. Desert Elementary School. Loose Photographs and clippings included.
7315Edith Drury Scrapbook
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Scrapbook
  • Organizations
  • Vessels, Boat
Mrs. Edith Drury scrapbook containing articles written for the "Maine Coast Fisherman", 1953-1954, in her column "God's Tugboat". Blue cloth hard cover with gilded letters.
  • Edith Drury
  • 1953
  • Blue textured scrapbook
  • good
Description:
Mrs. Edith Drury scrapbook containing articles written for the "Maine Coast Fisherman", 1953-1954, in her column "God's Tugboat". Blue cloth hard cover with gilded letters.
3849Mount Desert Larger Parish in Maine 1925-1950 Twenty-five Years Together
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Organizations, Religious
Introduction by John D. Rockefeller Jr. Address delivered by Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick.
  • 1950
  • 13
  • 1 pamphlet
Description:
Introduction by John D. Rockefeller Jr. Address delivered by Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick.
3878Record of Daily Visitors and Books Circulated
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
Record of daily visitors and books circulated at the Northeast Harbor Library
  • 1935-1953
  • notebook
  • fair
Description:
Record of daily visitors and books circulated at the Northeast Harbor Library
3880Letters between Gertrude Fay and Belle Smallidge Knowles
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
  • 1950
  • 5
  • typescript, manuscript
  • fair
3884Prayer at the Opening of the New Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
Prayer by Rev. M. E. Peabody. August 20, 1950.
  • 1950
  • 1
  • typescript
  • fair
Description:
Prayer by Rev. M. E. Peabody. August 20, 1950.
3897Milliken Room Books
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
Lists donors and books.
  • ca. 1956
  • 5
  • typescript
Description:
Lists donors and books.
3899Dedication of the Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
Address given by Mrs. Rodman Fay (Gertrude), Chairman of the Northeast Harbor Library at the dedication of the new building in August 1950.
  • Mrs. Rodman Fay
  • 8/20/1950
  • 5
  • typescript
Description:
Address given by Mrs. Rodman Fay (Gertrude), Chairman of the Northeast Harbor Library at the dedication of the new building in August 1950.
3900Guests of the Dedication of the Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
  • 8/20/1950
  • 10
  • typescript
3905Northeast Harbor Library Announcement
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
Announcing the opening of the second library.
  • Matthew T. Mellon
  • 1952
  • 1
Description:
Announcing the opening of the second library.
3906Beginnings of the Library
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
Address to Northeast Harbor Library corporation and board members at the dedication of the new building on Joy Road in August 1950. Mr. Pepper, one of the first trustees and was actively involved in fund raising activities.
  • George Wharton Pepper
  • 1950 ?
  • 2
  • typescript
Description:
Address to Northeast Harbor Library corporation and board members at the dedication of the new building on Joy Road in August 1950. Mr. Pepper, one of the first trustees and was actively involved in fund raising activities.
3908Northeast Harbor Library Incorporation and First Meeting
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
  • 1951
  • 15
  • photocopy
3911Remarks on the Occasion of the Retirement of Mrs. Belmont
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
  • People
Agnes Milliken's notes for a speech at library trustee's meeting on the retirement of Mrs. Belmont and succession of Mrs. Fay as Trustee Chairman.
  • Mrs. Gerrish H. Milliken
  • 8/9/1955
  • 4 pages, 2 copies
  • photocopy
Description:
Agnes Milliken's notes for a speech at library trustee's meeting on the retirement of Mrs. Belmont and succession of Mrs. Fay as Trustee Chairman.