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You searched for: Date: 1880s
Item Title Type Subject Description Creator Date Property Name Street Pages Medium Condition
2389J. B. Rumill's Farm
  • Document, Projection, Plan
  • Other, Land
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Farmhouse
Drawing, 18 1/2x12 1/2", of the J. B. Rumill farm in Tremont and surrounding properties of: Albee, Robbins, and Dow.
  • Heath
  • 1884
  • 1
  • MAP
  • fragile, damaged
Description:
Drawing, 18 1/2x12 1/2", of the J. B. Rumill farm in Tremont and surrounding properties of: Albee, Robbins, and Dow.
2237Book 230, Treasury Depart. regarding Life Saving Service
  • Document, Government
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Structures, Other Structures, Life Saving Station
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
A photocopy of authorization from Sect. of Treasury to acquire or purchase for the United States land to use for Life-Saving Stations, Houses of Refuge & Beacons.
  • Hugh S. Thompson
  • 11-24-1888
  • photocopy
Description:
A photocopy of authorization from Sect. of Treasury to acquire or purchase for the United States land to use for Life-Saving Stations, Houses of Refuge & Beacons.
2604Certificate of Lodge of Masons
  • Document, Certificate
  • People
Certificate citing that William Foster was elevated to the position of Master Mason in the Lagonia Lodge of Ellsworth.
  • Ira Berry
  • 1884
  • 1
  • paper
Description:
Certificate citing that William Foster was elevated to the position of Master Mason in the Lagonia Lodge of Ellsworth.
2434Topography of Mount Desert Island and Islands to the Southward
  • Map
  • Places, Island
Large topographical map of Mount Desert Island and off shore islands.
  • J. Hilgard, Superintendent
  • 1882
  • 1
  • MAP
  • fair
Description:
Large topographical map of Mount Desert Island and off shore islands.
3121Notebook: Lectures by M. M. Bigelow, 1888
  • Document, Legal, Legal Documents
  • J. T. Higgins
  • 1888
  • notebook
2532Plan of High Head
  • Document, Projection, Plan
  • Other, Land
Lot map, 32x26", showing the development plan for "High Head", off Western Bay, on property owned by the Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island Investment Co. in the towns of Eden and Mount Desert.
  • Joseph Curtis
  • 1888
  • 1
  • MAP
Description:
Lot map, 32x26", showing the development plan for "High Head", off Western Bay, on property owned by the Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island Investment Co. in the towns of Eden and Mount Desert.
5096Lydia Wood with family at Jordan Pond
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Places, Lake
Lydia Wood and family sitting on the rocks at Jordan Pond. Lydia is playing the banjo. There are several children in the picture. Lydia Wood became Mrs. Charles Bailey. She was Mrs. William (Louisa) Foulke's aunt.
  • Joseph M. Wilson
  • 8-20-1887
Description:
Lydia Wood and family sitting on the rocks at Jordan Pond. Lydia is playing the banjo. There are several children in the picture. Lydia Wood became Mrs. Charles Bailey. She was Mrs. William (Louisa) Foulke's aunt.
5097People on steps of Harbor Cottages, Northeast Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
8 women and 2 men sitting on and standing around steps of Harbor Cottages in Northeast Harbor. Unidentified. Lady in center has a musical instrument on her lap.
  • Joseph M. Wilson
  • 8-31-1887
Description:
8 women and 2 men sitting on and standing around steps of Harbor Cottages in Northeast Harbor. Unidentified. Lady in center has a musical instrument on her lap.
2896Deed: Levi A. Wyman to Herbert E. Sawyer, 1888
  • Document, Legal, Deed
  • People
  • L. A. Wyman
  • 1888
  • Deed
2453Divisions of Benjamin Richardson Estate (Plan B)
  • Document, Projection, Plan
  • Other, Land
Lot maps A & B (20x16", tissue) showing divisions of Somesville property in the estate of Benjamin Richardson. Includes Richardsons, Wasgatt, Stevens, Pray (fragile!)
  • L. A. Wyman
  • 1888
  • 2
  • MAP
  • fragile, damaged
Description:
Lot maps A & B (20x16", tissue) showing divisions of Somesville property in the estate of Benjamin Richardson. Includes Richardsons, Wasgatt, Stevens, Pray (fragile!)
1454The Lighthouse Window
  • Image, Art, Painting
  • Object, Art, Stained Glass
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
Original card painted by Margaret Herrison Doane (Daisy) for her Aunt Mary Spring Perkins, Christmas 1881. This design inspired the window in St. Mary's-by-the-sea. Accompanying is a Photograph copy of a paper written by Margaret Doane Fayerweather in 1955 about the history of the lighthouse window.
  • Margaret Herrison Doane
  • 1881
  • 1 painting
  • paper
Description:
Original card painted by Margaret Herrison Doane (Daisy) for her Aunt Mary Spring Perkins, Christmas 1881. This design inspired the window in St. Mary's-by-the-sea. Accompanying is a Photograph copy of a paper written by Margaret Doane Fayerweather in 1955 about the history of the lighthouse window.
1985Mount Desert List of Students and road workers
  • Document, Other Documents
  • People
  • Places, Town
Names of students at Sandy Point (later Northeast Harbor) in March, 1871 and a list of names of road workers and hours worked.
  • Mount Desert
  • 1884
  • 1
  • typescript
Description:
Names of students at Sandy Point (later Northeast Harbor) in March, 1871 and a list of names of road workers and hours worked.
6090Report of a Committee of the No. East Harbor Association for the Protection of the Woods from Fire
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Events, Fire
  • Places
Report of a Committee of the No. East Harbor Association for the protection of the woods from fire, upon the forest fires on the Island of Mount Desert, Me., in the year 1883, with a brief record of the same, and some suggestions for the better protection of the woods in the future.
  • Northeast Harbor Association for the protection of the Woods from Fire
  • 1884
  • 8
  • pamphlet
  • good
Description:
Report of a Committee of the No. East Harbor Association for the protection of the woods from fire, upon the forest fires on the Island of Mount Desert, Me., in the year 1883, with a brief record of the same, and some suggestions for the better protection of the woods in the future.
2486The Anchorage
  • Document, Projection, Plan
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
Floor plans blueprints of the original "Anchorage" in Seal Harbor. It was later torn down to build the Nelson Rockefeller house. Subsequently owned by Josephine Ford.
  • Rear Admiral Arent Schuyler Crowninshield
  • 1880s
  • 3
  • ARCH
Description:
Floor plans blueprints of the original "Anchorage" in Seal Harbor. It was later torn down to build the Nelson Rockefeller house. Subsequently owned by Josephine Ford.
4379Road above Northeast Harbor looking south
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Road
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. "Known today as Pond Hill, route 3/198 500 yards south of the Gate House. The date is questionable because the photo shows the original Asticou Inn which was not built until after 1881." Tom Eliot Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
  • Samuel A. Eliot
  • 1881
Description:
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. "Known today as Pond Hill, route 3/198 500 yards south of the Gate House. The date is questionable because the photo shows the original Asticou Inn which was not built until after 1881." Tom Eliot Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
4380Upper Hadlock Pond
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Lake
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. "This picture was taken from the roadway before the road was cut down into the hillside, thus the camera height above the water would place today's photographer about six feet in the air." Tom Eliot
  • Samuel A. Eliot
  • 1881
  • 1 photograph
Description:
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. "This picture was taken from the roadway before the road was cut down into the hillside, thus the camera height above the water would place today's photographer about six feet in the air." Tom Eliot
4496Northeast Harbor area
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Camp
  • Places, Road
5 sepia prints of Northeast Harbor, Maine area: a. Brown Mt. Road looking toward Northeast Harbor. b. Charles W. Eliot house & float looking north. c. Brown Mt. road. d. Road along the east side of Northeast Harbor ("Peabody Drive" area). e. Charles and Samuel Eliot and Harvard Students encampment
  • Samuel A. Eliot
  • 1884
Description:
5 sepia prints of Northeast Harbor, Maine area: a. Brown Mt. Road looking toward Northeast Harbor. b. Charles W. Eliot house & float looking north. c. Brown Mt. road. d. Road along the east side of Northeast Harbor ("Peabody Drive" area). e. Charles and Samuel Eliot and Harvard Students encampment
4373Cadillac's Harbor of Mount Desert from Bear Island
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Harbor
  • Places, Landscape
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society.
  • Samuel A. Eliot
  • 1881
  • 1 photograph
Description:
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society.
4374View from Sargent Mountain
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Landscape
  • Places, Mountain
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society.
  • Samuel A. Eliot
  • 1881
  • 1 photograph
Description:
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society.
4375Harbor Brook
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Stream
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. "I am not sure whether this is what is now called Little Harbor Brook on Peabody Drive, or what is called Asticou Stream, which feeds through what is now the Azalea Garden." Tom Eliot
  • Samuel A. Eliot
  • 1881
  • 1 photograph
Description:
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. "I am not sure whether this is what is now called Little Harbor Brook on Peabody Drive, or what is called Asticou Stream, which feeds through what is now the Azalea Garden." Tom Eliot
4376Jordan Pond
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Lake
  • Places, Mountain
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. Overlook from Jordan Pond House to the Bubbles.
  • Samuel A. Eliot
  • 1881
  • 1 photograph
Description:
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. Overlook from Jordan Pond House to the Bubbles.
4377Head of Somes Sound
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Sound
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. "As far as I am able to tell by carrying the picture to the site, a combination of reforestation and the cutting down of a hill to make the intersection of routes 3 and 233, this photo is not quite possible to replicate. The poles carried telegraph wires." Tom Eliot
  • Samuel A. Eliot
  • 1881
  • 1 photograph
Description:
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. "As far as I am able to tell by carrying the picture to the site, a combination of reforestation and the cutting down of a hill to make the intersection of routes 3 and 233, this photo is not quite possible to replicate. The poles carried telegraph wires." Tom Eliot
4378Road on east side of Somes Sound
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Road
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. "Today called Sound Drive, route 3/198. This view is no longer possible because of reforestation." Tom Eliot Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
  • Samuel A. Eliot
  • 1881
Description:
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. "Today called Sound Drive, route 3/198. This view is no longer possible because of reforestation." Tom Eliot Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
6880Union Church Property Deed
  • Document, Legal, Deed
  • Organizations, Religious
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
A copy of the deed signing over property to be used for erection and maintenance of a church to be called "The Union Church of Northeast Harbor".
  • Samuel Gilpatrick
  • 12-17-1887
  • photocopy
Description:
A copy of the deed signing over property to be used for erection and maintenance of a church to be called "The Union Church of Northeast Harbor".
1548Union Church Deed of Land
  • Document, Legal, Deed
  • Organizations, Religious
Copy of the land deed, a gift of Samuel Gilpatrick to the Union Church in Northeast Harbor. Researched by Donald Phillips.
  • Samuel Gilpatrick
  • 1887
  • photocopy
Description:
Copy of the land deed, a gift of Samuel Gilpatrick to the Union Church in Northeast Harbor. Researched by Donald Phillips.