Handwritten on onionskin. Summary history of Somesville written for Northeast Harbor Women's Club. Note states the original was to be kept in Belle Knowles's safe.
Description: Handwritten on onionskin. Summary history of Somesville written for Northeast Harbor Women's Club. Note states the original was to be kept in Belle Knowles's safe.
Description: Unusual & beautiful vines thrive in Reef Points Gardens in Bar Harbor, Maine. These pages are copied from Brooklyn Botanic Garden Handbook on Vines.
Description: Cora Phillips Savage writes about the history of Northeast Harbor. GEN 0011 b: "Let's take a walk" by Emily Phillips Reynolds, 1975 (18 pages)
Brief article of the significance of landscaped gardens on MDI. Colored photographs of a few private gardens in Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor. Published in Down East Magazine, September 1979.
Description: Brief article of the significance of landscaped gardens on MDI. Colored photographs of a few private gardens in Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor. Published in Down East Magazine, September 1979.
A paper about the Duck Islands (Great Duck and Little Duck) off the southern shore of Mount Desert Island. Written by Emily Phillip Reynolds for a presentation to the Woman's Literary Club in 1930.
Description: A paper about the Duck Islands (Great Duck and Little Duck) off the southern shore of Mount Desert Island. Written by Emily Phillip Reynolds for a presentation to the Woman's Literary Club in 1930.
A clipping from a newspaper article about Mrs. Harriet M. Lyman, 80, who saw Mt. Desert Develop from Fishing Villages to World-famed Resort, also a Photograph of Mrs. Lyman.
Description: A clipping from a newspaper article about Mrs. Harriet M. Lyman, 80, who saw Mt. Desert Develop from Fishing Villages to World-famed Resort, also a Photograph of Mrs. Lyman.
A collection of 1930 and 1940 boyhood memories of time at "Rockend Dock" including stories of Captains Lou Stanley, Bert Spurling and Bill Black. 2 copies.
Description: A collection of 1930 and 1940 boyhood memories of time at "Rockend Dock" including stories of Captains Lou Stanley, Bert Spurling and Bill Black. 2 copies.
Collection documents the settlement and genealogical history of the Town of Cranberry Isles, Me., consisting of five islands located in the Gulf of Maine east of Mount Desert Island: Baker, Bear, Sutton, Great Cranberry, and Little Cranberry (Islesford).
Description: Collection documents the settlement and genealogical history of the Town of Cranberry Isles, Me., consisting of five islands located in the Gulf of Maine east of Mount Desert Island: Baker, Bear, Sutton, Great Cranberry, and Little Cranberry (Islesford).
Personal and business correspondence, receipts, ledgers of Islesford Wharf Co., annual reports to Maine Public Utilities Commission, and other documents relating to the creation of the Islesford Wharf Co. and the Islesford Historical Committee which would insure public access to Little Cranberry Island and provide a historical museum and repository for local public records, other documents, and historical items.
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Collection:
General Collection
Object ID:
GEN 0761
Location:
General Collection Box 24
Medium:
booklet
Description: Personal and business correspondence, receipts, ledgers of Islesford Wharf Co., annual reports to Maine Public Utilities Commission, and other documents relating to the creation of the Islesford Wharf Co. and the Islesford Historical Committee which would insure public access to Little Cranberry Island and provide a historical museum and repository for local public records, other documents, and historical items.
Buckboards and down-home cooking were the chief creature comforts for island visitors in the decade before the great hotels and cottages began to crowd the scene. Published in Down East Magazine, July 1995
Description: Buckboards and down-home cooking were the chief creature comforts for island visitors in the decade before the great hotels and cottages began to crowd the scene. Published in Down East Magazine, July 1995
Copy of article of John Gordon's interview with Martha Stewart about living in Maine, what she likes to do, places she likes to go, and her love of her home, "Skylands", in Seal Harbor.
Description: Copy of article of John Gordon's interview with Martha Stewart about living in Maine, what she likes to do, places she likes to go, and her love of her home, "Skylands", in Seal Harbor.