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1458J. H. Branscom Paper Bags
  • Object, Merchandising, Shopping Container, Shopping Bag
  • Businesses, Service Business
3 brown paper bags. Letterpress printed on each in red: J. H. Branscom. Coal, Wood and Kindlings. Northeast Harbor, Maine. Prompt Delivery. Your Patronage Solicited. Phone 155.
  • 2 paper bags
  • Letterpress
Description:
3 brown paper bags. Letterpress printed on each in red: J. H. Branscom. Coal, Wood and Kindlings. Northeast Harbor, Maine. Prompt Delivery. Your Patronage Solicited. Phone 155.
1470Betsy Flagg Melcher's Sketchbooks
  • Object, Painting, Sketchbook
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • Places, Landscape
Betsy Flagg Melcher's sketchbooks with charcoal drawings, etchings, pen & ink drawings, and pastels. Cloth covered sketchbook, unbound sketchbook with black board covers. Sketchbook 1: 1-16 Sketchbook 2: 17-49
  • Betsy Flagg Melcher
  • 2 sketchbooks
  • drawings, paintings
Description:
Betsy Flagg Melcher's sketchbooks with charcoal drawings, etchings, pen & ink drawings, and pastels. Cloth covered sketchbook, unbound sketchbook with black board covers. Sketchbook 1: 1-16 Sketchbook 2: 17-49
1472Sketches and Paintings
  • Object, Painting, Sketchbook
  • Nature, Plants
  • People
  • Places, Landscape
Sarah Cabot Wheelwright (1834-1917). Sarah Cabot later became Mrs. Andrew Wheelwright and the mother of Miss Mary Cabot Wheelwright. Album contains 75 images.
  • Sarah Cabot Wheelwright
  • 1880's-1900's
  • Album, 14" x 17.5"
  • watercolors, drawings
Description:
Sarah Cabot Wheelwright (1834-1917). Sarah Cabot later became Mrs. Andrew Wheelwright and the mother of Miss Mary Cabot Wheelwright. Album contains 75 images.
1477Painted Sign
  • Object, Sign
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
  • People
Books purchased from fund in memory of Frank Newlin
  • Charles K. Savage
  • paint on board
Description:
Books purchased from fund in memory of Frank Newlin
1483Clifton House Printing Plate
  • Object, Printing, Printing Surface, Printing Plate
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
Printing plate of the exterior of Clifton house Hotel. Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.5 x 1 inches.
  • 1 plate
  • metal plate on wooden backing
  • good
Description:
Printing plate of the exterior of Clifton house Hotel. Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.5 x 1 inches.
1915A list of Settlers of part of MDI granted to John Bernard
  • Object, Writing, Notebook
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places, Island
A soft covered red notebook containing a copy from Maine State Archives listing (A21IR20:4-8 Box44) settlers on the part of MDI granted to John Bernard. Comments & lists have been copied by R. Pyle
  • 1785
  • 3
  • photocopy
Description:
A soft covered red notebook containing a copy from Maine State Archives listing (A21IR20:4-8 Box44) settlers on the part of MDI granted to John Bernard. Comments & lists have been copied by R. Pyle
2105School District No. 1 Assessment 1875
  • Object, Writing, Notebook
  • Organizations, Civic, Municipal
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • Places, Town
A small booklet listing residents and non-residents in School District No. 1 regarding taxes on real estate. The selectmen of MD authorized Jonathan Hamor as tax collector.
  • Selectmen of Mount Desert
  • 1874
Description:
A small booklet listing residents and non-residents in School District No. 1 regarding taxes on real estate. The selectmen of MD authorized Jonathan Hamor as tax collector.
2112Lev Vladimir Goriansky
  • Object, Writing, Notebook
  • People
A notebook containing a copy of a chronology of Lev Vladimir Goriansky by Carl Little. It begins in 1894 & ends in 1967.
  • Carl Little
  • typescript
Description:
A notebook containing a copy of a chronology of Lev Vladimir Goriansky by Carl Little. It begins in 1894 & ends in 1967.
2260Bishop Doane's Seal
  • Object, Writing, Sealing Wax
  • Other, Image
  • 1 seal
3494Book of Hours, illuminated manuscript
  • Object, Religious Text
  • Object, Religious Text
Framed by Charles Savage
Description:
Framed by Charles Savage
3503Woolies, Sailors' Embroidered Folk Art, tapestry
  • Object, Art, Tapestry
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
This magnificent gift of twenty-four English sailors' embroideries - Woolies - was presented by Mrs Douglas Dillon to honor the new Northeast Harbor Library in 2007. These unique pieces of nineteenth century mariner's folk art were souvenirs of the sailors' world-wide journeys and were embroidered in wool on sailcloth. Mrs. Dillon began a half-century ago to develop this unique and wonderful collection and continued until presenting them to the Library. Woolie 1: Doris 27 1/2" high by 48" wide, British Flagship, unusual harlequin background Woolie 2: Black hull ship, British Ensign under sail, sea gulls flying overhead, three other ships in foreground, lifeboat swung up on davit Woolie 3: Sailor's Adieu, ship's dory waiting to take him to his three-masted warship, and gulls flying overhead, 18" high by 26" wide Woolie 4: Seventy-two gun warship at sea full sail, 23" high by 27" wide, British Ensign Woolie 5: Tugboat bringing large three-masted sailboat (sails furled) home from the sea, crewelwork stitches in silk, cotton and wool, 22" high by 30" wide Woolie 6: Gunboat under sail, lighthouse and small photo of Captain in oval at center of Woolie at base Woolie 7: H.M.S. Terrible bombarding Odessa, only battle scene known to me, ironclad H.M.S. Terrible facing away, huge clouds of smoke, green sea, 17 1/2" high by 28 1/2" wide Woolie 8: Two-decked gunship, captain with spyglass, ship dressed all over, with crew standing on spars, over 100 men, perhaps Royal Review at Cowes Woolie 9: Warship under sail, depicted with life preserver and laurel leaf enclosure and flags, a small gold and pearl navy brooch is pinned below crown added by me when woolly was moth-proofed, 31 1/2" wide by 35" high Woolie 10: Three-masted warship under sail, from porthole surrounded by Union Jack and other flags in laurel wreath Woolie 11: Ice-breaker prow on three-masted and steam-powered gunboat with lighthouse and man on shore Woolie 12: H.M.S. Lether, British three-masted ship under sail hoisted a very large anchor at prow, 16" high by 26" wide Woolie 13: Largest of Woolies, 30 1/2" high by 44" wide, depicting Rock of Gibraltar and McKinley's Great White Fleet gunboat and a British streamer and French gunboat, Spain on left, Morocco on right Woolie 14: H.M.S. Hero, ninety-one guns three-masted gunboat, British Flag, smokestack with grey smoke puff Woolie 15: Three-masted black hull British Flag, initialed at bottom F.D. and 91 Woolie 16: Choppy blue and white sea, seven gunboats, sails furled, small bronze guns attached by wool, over-sized sailors on ships, 22" high by 25" wide Woolie 17: Duke of Wellington three-masted, three-decked gunship dressed all over, flags strum from stem to stern - my finest Woolie - purchased in Brighton, England in 1950, rigging of wool - usually they used string for tautness and lasting qualities - Flagship, Admiral's gig at side, probably a Royal Review for Queen Victoria memorialized by artist Woolie 18: Silver framed three-masted gunship with gold steam stacks mid-ship, British flags, 30 1/2" wide by 21" high Woolie 19: Silk-work ship (faded) with Cliffs of Dover, 16" wide by 13 1/2" high Woolie 20: White Ensign British warship entering harbor, small fort on left, lighthouse on right, 12 1/2" high by 15" wide Woolie 21: Three-decker gunship entering harbor, sailing straight at us, British saluting or being fired on by entrance fort Woolie 22: Small-sized gold framed three-masted gunship under sail, blue and White Sea, 12" high by 16" wide Woolie 23: Three-masted British ship at sea approaching white lighthouse (looks like a milk bottle) interesting sky, 51" wide by 24" high Woolie 24: Paddle steamship, 20 1/2" high by 27" wide
  • 24 woolies
Description:
This magnificent gift of twenty-four English sailors' embroideries - Woolies - was presented by Mrs Douglas Dillon to honor the new Northeast Harbor Library in 2007. These unique pieces of nineteenth century mariner's folk art were souvenirs of the sailors' world-wide journeys and were embroidered in wool on sailcloth. Mrs. Dillon began a half-century ago to develop this unique and wonderful collection and continued until presenting them to the Library. Woolie 1: Doris 27 1/2" high by 48" wide, British Flagship, unusual harlequin background Woolie 2: Black hull ship, British Ensign under sail, sea gulls flying overhead, three other ships in foreground, lifeboat swung up on davit Woolie 3: Sailor's Adieu, ship's dory waiting to take him to his three-masted warship, and gulls flying overhead, 18" high by 26" wide Woolie 4: Seventy-two gun warship at sea full sail, 23" high by 27" wide, British Ensign Woolie 5: Tugboat bringing large three-masted sailboat (sails furled) home from the sea, crewelwork stitches in silk, cotton and wool, 22" high by 30" wide Woolie 6: Gunboat under sail, lighthouse and small photo of Captain in oval at center of Woolie at base Woolie 7: H.M.S. Terrible bombarding Odessa, only battle scene known to me, ironclad H.M.S. Terrible facing away, huge clouds of smoke, green sea, 17 1/2" high by 28 1/2" wide Woolie 8: Two-decked gunship, captain with spyglass, ship dressed all over, with crew standing on spars, over 100 men, perhaps Royal Review at Cowes Woolie 9: Warship under sail, depicted with life preserver and laurel leaf enclosure and flags, a small gold and pearl navy brooch is pinned below crown added by me when woolly was moth-proofed, 31 1/2" wide by 35" high Woolie 10: Three-masted warship under sail, from porthole surrounded by Union Jack and other flags in laurel wreath Woolie 11: Ice-breaker prow on three-masted and steam-powered gunboat with lighthouse and man on shore Woolie 12: H.M.S. Lether, British three-masted ship under sail hoisted a very large anchor at prow, 16" high by 26" wide Woolie 13: Largest of Woolies, 30 1/2" high by 44" wide, depicting Rock of Gibraltar and McKinley's Great White Fleet gunboat and a British streamer and French gunboat, Spain on left, Morocco on right Woolie 14: H.M.S. Hero, ninety-one guns three-masted gunboat, British Flag, smokestack with grey smoke puff Woolie 15: Three-masted black hull British Flag, initialed at bottom F.D. and 91 Woolie 16: Choppy blue and white sea, seven gunboats, sails furled, small bronze guns attached by wool, over-sized sailors on ships, 22" high by 25" wide Woolie 17: Duke of Wellington three-masted, three-decked gunship dressed all over, flags strum from stem to stern - my finest Woolie - purchased in Brighton, England in 1950, rigging of wool - usually they used string for tautness and lasting qualities - Flagship, Admiral's gig at side, probably a Royal Review for Queen Victoria memorialized by artist Woolie 18: Silver framed three-masted gunship with gold steam stacks mid-ship, British flags, 30 1/2" wide by 21" high Woolie 19: Silk-work ship (faded) with Cliffs of Dover, 16" wide by 13 1/2" high Woolie 20: White Ensign British warship entering harbor, small fort on left, lighthouse on right, 12 1/2" high by 15" wide Woolie 21: Three-decker gunship entering harbor, sailing straight at us, British saluting or being fired on by entrance fort Woolie 22: Small-sized gold framed three-masted gunship under sail, blue and White Sea, 12" high by 16" wide Woolie 23: Three-masted British ship at sea approaching white lighthouse (looks like a milk bottle) interesting sky, 51" wide by 24" high Woolie 24: Paddle steamship, 20 1/2" high by 27" wide [show more]
3504Woolie, tapestry
  • Object, Art, Tapestry
  • Vessels, Ship
  • 1 woolie
3506Tennyson, bust
  • Object, Art, Sculpture
  • People
Stone bust.
  • Partridge
Description:
Stone bust.
3507George Washington, bust
  • Object, Art, Sculpture
  • People
3508Dante, bust
  • Object, Art, Sculpture
  • People
Commissioned by Mrs. Fay.
  • Charles Savage
  • 1980
  • plaster
Description:
Commissioned by Mrs. Fay.
3509Hermes Olympia, bust
  • Object, Art, Sculpture
  • People
Stone bust form the old library on South Shore Road.
Description:
Stone bust form the old library on South Shore Road.
3510Emmett Kelley Clown, sculpture
  • Object, Art, Sculpture
  • Object, Art, Sculpture
  • Agnes Yarnall
3512Peabody Center, dedication
  • Object, Sign
  • Object, Sign
3514Astor Room, plaque
  • Object, Sign
  • Object, Sign
Made on commission from Mrs. Fay in 1966.
  • Charles Savage
  • 1966
Description:
Made on commission from Mrs. Fay in 1966.
3515Harris Room, sign and dedication
  • Object, Sign
  • Object, Sign
Commissioned by Mrs. Fay. See also item 5311
  • Charles Savage
  • 1980
  • wood
Description:
Commissioned by Mrs. Fay. See also item 5311
3516Belle Smallidge Knowles memorial, plaque
  • Object, Sign
  • Object, Sign
3517Gerrish Hill Milliken, memorial plaque
  • Object, Sign
  • Object, Sign
Designed by Robert W. Patterson.
Description:
Designed by Robert W. Patterson.
3518Karl Mellon Room, sign and dedication
  • Object, Sign
  • Object, Sign
  • Alice Smith
  • 1986
3519Antique trail signs
  • Object, Sign
  • Object, Sign
  • 32 signs
3520Robert R. Pyle & Orton P. Jackson Jr., plaques
  • Object, Sign
  • Object, Sign