Description: Relief map of Mount Desert Island. Was given by Mr. Abbe to Charles W. Eliot, who then gifted it wit Mr. Abbe's permission to the library.
Relief map of Mount Desert Island. Reproduction of original by Robert Abbe. Donated by Mr. and Mrs. John Harrison, Jr. in memory of Catherine Norris Patterson.
Description: Relief map of Mount Desert Island. Reproduction of original by Robert Abbe. Donated by Mr. and Mrs. John Harrison, Jr. in memory of Catherine Norris Patterson.
Shows county and township boundaries, administrative centers, post and telegraph offices, roads, railways, railway stations, trolley lines, steamship lines, fire lookout stations, camps, and lighthouses. Relief shown by spot heights. Gives population statistics for 1910. Includes index. 1 map : color ; 112 x 83 cm, folded to 25 x 12 cm Scale [ca. 1:440,000]; (W 71°00ʹ--W 66°30ʹ/N 47°25ʹ--N 43°04ʹ). Inset: Distances via trunk line highways.
Description: Shows county and township boundaries, administrative centers, post and telegraph offices, roads, railways, railway stations, trolley lines, steamship lines, fire lookout stations, camps, and lighthouses. Relief shown by spot heights. Gives population statistics for 1910. Includes index. 1 map : color ; 112 x 83 cm, folded to 25 x 12 cm Scale [ca. 1:440,000]; (W 71°00ʹ--W 66°30ʹ/N 47°25ʹ--N 43°04ʹ). Inset: Distances via trunk line highways. [show more]
Description: The drawing and cover letter are framed together. Miss Gilman attributes the drawing to Hopkinson Smith. The logo continues in use a century later.
Description: Seven men on board the wheelwright yacht "HESPER" in the summer of 1913. Sitting on far left is the father of Bettie Lou Manchester at age 18.
Report of the Chairman of the Committee, to the Executive Committee, from the beginning of its work. Appended is a summary of the work of the Naval Affairs Committee, of the County Committees, the Food Committee, and the Four Minute Men Department; also a financial statement to the end of the year, December 31, 1917.
Description: Report of the Chairman of the Committee, to the Executive Committee, from the beginning of its work. Appended is a summary of the work of the Naval Affairs Committee, of the County Committees, the Food Committee, and the Four Minute Men Department; also a financial statement to the end of the year, December 31, 1917.
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)
Photograph of three American soldiers in World War I sitting on the rim of a fountain. Addressed to Mrs. Leota Manchester, wife of Frank Manchester. (MAN 12)
Description: Photograph of three American soldiers in World War I sitting on the rim of a fountain. Addressed to Mrs. Leota Manchester, wife of Frank Manchester. (MAN 12)
Grey/blue covered cookbook compiled by the sewing circle women of the Bar Harbor Congregational Church. Included are a few recipe clippings published in the Boston Post under "Recipes of New England Housewives".
Description: Grey/blue covered cookbook compiled by the sewing circle women of the Bar Harbor Congregational Church. Included are a few recipe clippings published in the Boston Post under "Recipes of New England Housewives".
Lot map, pencil on tissue, untitled, showing properties of Eliot, Robbins, Tyson, Crofoot, Adams. Trust Conveyance, et al. off "County Road". Land around present day Thuya Gardens.
Description: Lot map, pencil on tissue, untitled, showing properties of Eliot, Robbins, Tyson, Crofoot, Adams. Trust Conveyance, et al. off "County Road". Land around present day Thuya Gardens.