References to WLC members Lucy Smith (8), Elizabeth Manchester Johnson (92), Edith Favour (93), Virginia Somes Sanderson (93), and Katherine Savage (94) Scan: Cover, first pages only
Description: References to WLC members Lucy Smith (8), Elizabeth Manchester Johnson (92), Edith Favour (93), Virginia Somes Sanderson (93), and Katherine Savage (94) Scan: Cover, first pages only
Description: The Seaside Inn reunion booklet prepared for the first reunion of employees and guests. Although the buildings are gone the memories remain.
Vol. XXVII, No. 3, January 1937, Serial No. 87. Contains articles about the "The Steamer J. T. Morse", Harvard College, William Claggett & William C. Endicott. Scan: Cover, first pages only.
Description: Vol. XXVII, No. 3, January 1937, Serial No. 87. Contains articles about the "The Steamer J. T. Morse", Harvard College, William Claggett & William C. Endicott. Scan: Cover, first pages only.
Photograph and caption from an article published in "The Magazine Antiques", June 1973, by Walter Muir Whitehill, director and librarian emeritus: "Portrait busts in the library of the Boston Athenaeum". The bust of Emily Marshall was carved from a death mask in Florence in 1839 by Horatio Greenough and given to the Athenaeum in 1956 by her great-grandson, Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison.
Description: Photograph and caption from an article published in "The Magazine Antiques", June 1973, by Walter Muir Whitehill, director and librarian emeritus: "Portrait busts in the library of the Boston Athenaeum". The bust of Emily Marshall was carved from a death mask in Florence in 1839 by Horatio Greenough and given to the Athenaeum in 1956 by her great-grandson, Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison.
Article published in Life Magazine in 1968 about 9 prominent ladies of American high society: Mrs. T. Charlton Henry Mrs. Christopher Temple Emmet Mrs. Edgard B. Stern Mrs. Nicholas Longworth Mrs. Harper Sibley Mrs. Malcom Peabody Mrs. August Belmont Mrs. Lytle Hull Mrs. Thomas Armstrong
Description: Article published in Life Magazine in 1968 about 9 prominent ladies of American high society: Mrs. T. Charlton Henry Mrs. Christopher Temple Emmet Mrs. Edgard B. Stern Mrs. Nicholas Longworth Mrs. Harper Sibley Mrs. Malcom Peabody Mrs. August Belmont Mrs. Lytle Hull Mrs. Thomas Armstrong
Description: Copies of verses by Bill Ayles, a laborer who worked at odd jobs in & around Northeast Harbor. Poem copies were provided by R. Haynes & E. Smallidge.
Two biographical articles about George Cheever Shattuck: 1. "George Cheever Shattuck", by George S. Richardson, published by the Massachusetts Historical Society 2. "George Cheever Shattuck, Nestor of Torpical Medicine", by Jean A. Curran
Description: Two biographical articles about George Cheever Shattuck: 1. "George Cheever Shattuck", by George S. Richardson, published by the Massachusetts Historical Society 2. "George Cheever Shattuck, Nestor of Torpical Medicine", by Jean A. Curran
Description: A booklet containing the history of the Asticou Inn. It is dedicated to The Savage Family, Builders and Caring Innkeepers Through Three Generations.
2 articles about Endicott "Chub" Peabody: 1. "Submarine Heroes Return: Crew of USS Tirante recalls WWII Action" 2. "'Chub' Peabody is dead at 77", December 1997
Description: 2 articles about Endicott "Chub" Peabody: 1. "Submarine Heroes Return: Crew of USS Tirante recalls WWII Action" 2. "'Chub' Peabody is dead at 77", December 1997
Three biographical articles about Francis Hector Clergue of Brewer, Maine who was developing Bar Harbor as a tourist center and who built the Green Mountain Railway.
Description: Three biographical articles about Francis Hector Clergue of Brewer, Maine who was developing Bar Harbor as a tourist center and who built the Green Mountain Railway.
3 articles published in 1981 commemorating Mary Peabody: 1. "Mary Peabody, 89, fighter for rights", The Boston Globe, Saturday, February 7, 1981 2. "Mary Peabody, jailed at 72 for rights protests, is dead", The Hartford Courant 3. "Claremont's Lisa Berdecki recalls Mary Parkman Peabody", Eagle Times, April 20, 1981
Description: 3 articles published in 1981 commemorating Mary Peabody: 1. "Mary Peabody, 89, fighter for rights", The Boston Globe, Saturday, February 7, 1981 2. "Mary Peabody, jailed at 72 for rights protests, is dead", The Hartford Courant 3. "Claremont's Lisa Berdecki recalls Mary Parkman Peabody", Eagle Times, April 20, 1981
4 articles about three generations of Peabody Women: Frances Fitzgerald, her mother Maretta Tree and her grandmother, Mary Parkman Peabody. 1. "Genteel dissension among 3 generations of Peabody women"Submarine Heroes Return: Crew of USS Tirante recalls WWII Action" 2. "Naughy Marietta", Newsweek, May 14, 1979 3. "'American Women, a film by a Peabody", Washington Star, April 26, 1979 4. "Those Peabody Women...'The Female Line'", Boston Herald American, April 28, 1979
Description: 4 articles about three generations of Peabody Women: Frances Fitzgerald, her mother Maretta Tree and her grandmother, Mary Parkman Peabody. 1. "Genteel dissension among 3 generations of Peabody women"Submarine Heroes Return: Crew of USS Tirante recalls WWII Action" 2. "Naughy Marietta", Newsweek, May 14, 1979 3. "'American Women, a film by a Peabody", Washington Star, April 26, 1979 4. "Those Peabody Women...'The Female Line'", Boston Herald American, April 28, 1979 [show more]
Several newspaper clippings from the New York Times (March/April 1992) about Brooke Astor's 90th birthday celebrated in Manhattan. Included is a personal recollection of the birthday celebration written by a Northeast Harbor friend of Mrs. Brooke Astor.
Description: Several newspaper clippings from the New York Times (March/April 1992) about Brooke Astor's 90th birthday celebrated in Manhattan. Included is a personal recollection of the birthday celebration written by a Northeast Harbor friend of Mrs. Brooke Astor.
Susan Dillon celebrates a joint August birthday with Douglas Dillon. She writes of a party with family and friends on Islesboro. Photograph of Susan & Douglas Dillon on their deck at Sea Watch in Northeast Harbor. Scan: cover, first pages only
Description: Susan Dillon celebrates a joint August birthday with Douglas Dillon. She writes of a party with family and friends on Islesboro. Photograph of Susan & Douglas Dillon on their deck at Sea Watch in Northeast Harbor. Scan: cover, first pages only
Short autobiographical sketches of contacts with notables as Claus von Bulow. Somerset Maugham, Sir Harry Oakes, Clement Freud, and a nameless bootlegger. Scan: cover, first pages only
Description: Short autobiographical sketches of contacts with notables as Claus von Bulow. Somerset Maugham, Sir Harry Oakes, Clement Freud, and a nameless bootlegger. Scan: cover, first pages only
Autobiographical account of a trip to Venice, staying at the Gritti Palace Hotel on the Grand Canal (with 3 photographs). Scan: cover, first pages only
Description: Autobiographical account of a trip to Venice, staying at the Gritti Palace Hotel on the Grand Canal (with 3 photographs). Scan: cover, first pages only
Description: Contains accounts of a trip to Japan, where Susan Dillon & her husband had a audience with Emperor Hirohito. Scan: cover, first pages only
Carl Little was asked to tutor Brooke Astor in the French language, she wanted to brush up on it because she was considering a trip to Paris. He enjoyed her very much.
Description: Carl Little was asked to tutor Brooke Astor in the French language, she wanted to brush up on it because she was considering a trip to Paris. He enjoyed her very much.