Ad & ticket for the screening of the historic documentary of MDI, beginning with Abraham Somes in 1700's. The film is written by Gunnar Hansen, produced by Dobbs Productions with Photographs and documents of Rick, Ken, and Tom Savage.
Description: Ad & ticket for the screening of the historic documentary of MDI, beginning with Abraham Somes in 1700's. The film is written by Gunnar Hansen, produced by Dobbs Productions with Photographs and documents of Rick, Ken, and Tom Savage.
Posters announcing a Neighborhood House lecture series of Rev. Chas. F. Lee on the war. 1: Causes and Coming of the War 2: How Europe was saved at the Marne 3: Why are we in the war
Description: Posters announcing a Neighborhood House lecture series of Rev. Chas. F. Lee on the war. 1: Causes and Coming of the War 2: How Europe was saved at the Marne 3: Why are we in the war
Letters from Henry Kelley (Emerson?) to his mother, Ada Emerson, in Indian River, ME describing his Civil War encampment with the Maine 10th Regiment at Camp Washburn, MD & Harper's Ferry, VA. Given to library by Carl Kelley.
Description: Letters from Henry Kelley (Emerson?) to his mother, Ada Emerson, in Indian River, ME describing his Civil War encampment with the Maine 10th Regiment at Camp Washburn, MD & Harper's Ferry, VA. Given to library by Carl Kelley.
Copy of Memorial Day address of Robert R. Pyle, Library Director, at the annual ceremony at the Joseph Musetti Park. The address was a remembrance on the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
Description: Copy of Memorial Day address of Robert R. Pyle, Library Director, at the annual ceremony at the Joseph Musetti Park. The address was a remembrance on the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
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 by Samuel De Champlain, September 5, 1604. September 5, 1954
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 by Samuel De Champlain, September 5, 1604. September 5, 1954
Program of recitations presented under the Library's Public Performance Program, organized by Judith Blank. Jeff McKeen, host Ted Spurling Sr. (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). Recorded in the Mellon Room, Northeast Harbor Library.
Description: Program of recitations presented under the Library's Public Performance Program, organized by Judith Blank. Jeff McKeen, host Ted Spurling Sr. (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). Recorded in the Mellon Room, Northeast Harbor Library. [show more]
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)
A brief review of some historical and industrial incidents in the Puritan "New English Canaan," still the Land of Promise. Published by the Old Colony Trust Company of Boston, commemorating the Tercentenary of the First Landing at Plymouth in 1620 (MCMXX).
Description: A brief review of some historical and industrial incidents in the Puritan "New English Canaan," still the Land of Promise. Published by the Old Colony Trust Company of Boston, commemorating the Tercentenary of the First Landing at Plymouth in 1620 (MCMXX).
A brief historical sketch of the Town of Vinalhaven from its earliest known settlement. Prepared by order of the town on the occasion of its One Hundredth Anniversary.
Description: A brief historical sketch of the Town of Vinalhaven from its earliest known settlement. Prepared by order of the town on the occasion of its One Hundredth Anniversary.
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.
The Leading County Paper & the only Society Journal on MDI. This copy contains information & photographs from 1796-1896 relating to Bar Harbor. (Gift from Donald Norton)
Description: The Leading County Paper & the only Society Journal on MDI. This copy contains information & photographs from 1796-1896 relating to Bar Harbor. (Gift from Donald Norton)
World War II diary of Hoyt Clark from training camp Feb. 1944 until discharge Nov. 1945. Serving on Guam and Tinian Islands in the Pacific, he describes bombing raids over Japan
Description: World War II diary of Hoyt Clark from training camp Feb. 1944 until discharge Nov. 1945. Serving on Guam and Tinian Islands in the Pacific, he describes bombing raids over Japan
A Massachusetts Historical Society picture book. Contains several historical maps and portraits. Twenty-second in a series of picture books issued yearly since 1954 by the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Description: A Massachusetts Historical Society picture book. Contains several historical maps and portraits. Twenty-second in a series of picture books issued yearly since 1954 by the Massachusetts Historical Society.