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Item Title Type Subject Description Creator Date Property Name Street Pages Medium Condition
2173Bar Harbor Times
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Events
  • Places, Town
A weekly newspaper covering the events of the communities on MDI, the schools, births, deaths, marriages and other important news or items of interest that occur.
  • 10/4/1951
  • newspaper
Description:
A weekly newspaper covering the events of the communities on MDI, the schools, births, deaths, marriages and other important news or items of interest that occur.
1931Regionalism Sets Style for New Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
Architect Roger Griswold had his own conception of what a library in a Maine landscape should appear. From a Reading Room, the new library in Northeast Harbor was created.
  • 11/12/1950
  • newspaper
Description:
Architect Roger Griswold had his own conception of what a library in a Maine landscape should appear. From a Reading Room, the new library in Northeast Harbor was created.
5618Wayback Ball, Seal Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events, Gala
  • People
Hollis and Wilma Easton, Girland and Vinnie Robinson, Gene and Velma Ashley
  • Stephen Ashley
  • 1/16/1950
  • 1 photograph
Description:
Hollis and Wilma Easton, Girland and Vinnie Robinson, Gene and Velma Ashley
2268Modern Deer Management Methods Needed in Maine
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Nature, Animals
  • Places, Island
  • Lawrie Holmes
  • 12/12/1952
  • 2
  • typescript
5619Wayback Ball, Neighborhood House, Northeast Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events, Gala
  • People
Photo 2008 a: Velma and Gene Ashley Photo 2008 b: Attendees dancing Photo 2008 c: Attendees dancing Photo 2008 d: Attendees dancing
  • Stephen Ashley
  • 12-31-1948 and 1-6-1950
  • 4 photographs
Description:
Photo 2008 a: Velma and Gene Ashley Photo 2008 b: Attendees dancing Photo 2008 c: Attendees dancing Photo 2008 d: Attendees dancing
3927Trustees' Records
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
Records and meeting notes of the Trustees of the library 1891-1911 1911-1946 1946-1951
  • 1891-1951
  • 3 volumes
  • ledger book
Description:
Records and meeting notes of the Trustees of the library 1891-1911 1911-1946 1946-1951
2677Jordan Pond House Collection
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
Box 1 Guest Registers, 1894-1900 Guest Registers, 1900-1903 Guest Registers, 1903-1907 Guest Registers, 1907-1910 Box 2 Guest Registers, 1911-1914 Guest Registers, 1915-1919 Guest Registers, 1919-1930 Box 3 Guest Registers, 1924-1927 Guest Registers, 1928-1933 Guest Registers, 1934-1946 Guest Registers, 1947-1956 Research done by Arnold Welles about the history of the Jordan Pond House (Tibbetts Farm), 1 folder --- 'Tea and Popovers Please' by Russell D. Butcher, article from Down East Magazine July 1970, 1 folder
  • 1891-1956
  • 11 books
  • ledger books
Description:
Box 1 Guest Registers, 1894-1900 Guest Registers, 1900-1903 Guest Registers, 1903-1907 Guest Registers, 1907-1910 Box 2 Guest Registers, 1911-1914 Guest Registers, 1915-1919 Guest Registers, 1919-1930 Box 3 Guest Registers, 1924-1927 Guest Registers, 1928-1933 Guest Registers, 1934-1946 Guest Registers, 1947-1956 Research done by Arnold Welles about the history of the Jordan Pond House (Tibbetts Farm), 1 folder --- 'Tea and Popovers Please' by Russell D. Butcher, article from Down East Magazine July 1970, 1 folder [show more]
7182Benjamin Graves Record Books
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Businesses, Building Business
Box 1 Record book A, 1897-1909 Record book B, Oct. 1902-Oct. 1903 Record book C, 1927-1929 Record book D, 1925-1927 Record book E, 1931-1935 Record book F, 1929-1931 Record book G, 1932 Record book H, 1951 Includes database of clients and works (see uploaded pdf file): Information from Benjamin Graves'work done in the village and on Mount Desert Island from around 1897 through 1951. Much of this time was before reinforced concrete was widely adopted, so while the ledger detail includes other materials, "stone" is a common denominator. Labor rates and other local masons names are shown, as well as early rusticators. Bishop Doane, the Episcopal Church, Pres. Eliot and others' work is laid out.
  • 1897-1951
  • 1 box - 8 ledgers
  • ledger books
Description:
Box 1 Record book A, 1897-1909 Record book B, Oct. 1902-Oct. 1903 Record book C, 1927-1929 Record book D, 1925-1927 Record book E, 1931-1935 Record book F, 1929-1931 Record book G, 1932 Record book H, 1951 Includes database of clients and works (see uploaded pdf file): Information from Benjamin Graves'work done in the village and on Mount Desert Island from around 1897 through 1951. Much of this time was before reinforced concrete was widely adopted, so while the ledger detail includes other materials, "stone" is a common denominator. Labor rates and other local masons names are shown, as well as early rusticators. Bishop Doane, the Episcopal Church, Pres. Eliot and others' work is laid out. [show more]
5424Islesford Ferry
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
Scanned photographs of the Islesford Ferry. The steamboat "Islesford" was owned and operated by G. T. Hadlock 1893-1908.
  • 1900's-1950
Description:
Scanned photographs of the Islesford Ferry. The steamboat "Islesford" was owned and operated by G. T. Hadlock 1893-1908.
3665Cross Island to Nash Island
  • Map
  • 1911, 1952
  • 2 nautical charts
  • paper
2287Gilman High School Yearbooks
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Organizations, School Institution
Initially called "The Rudder" in 1914, then "The Rostrum" in the 1920's, it was later known as "Gilmanac". Scanned copies: 1914 1922 1923 1924 1925 1927 1940 1941 1943 (see Item 2281) 1944 1945 (see Item 7203) 1946 1947 (see Item 7204) 1948 (see Item 7373) 1949 1950 Included is an Official Program for the 16th annual Maine Interscholastic Track and Field Championship (1949). Missing: 1915-1921, 1926, 1939, 1942
  • 1914-1950
  • 1 box
Description:
Initially called "The Rudder" in 1914, then "The Rostrum" in the 1920's, it was later known as "Gilmanac". Scanned copies: 1914 1922 1923 1924 1925 1927 1940 1941 1943 (see Item 2281) 1944 1945 (see Item 7203) 1946 1947 (see Item 7204) 1948 (see Item 7373) 1949 1950 Included is an Official Program for the 16th annual Maine Interscholastic Track and Field Championship (1949). Missing: 1915-1921, 1926, 1939, 1942 [show more]
3682Boston Harbor
  • Map
  • 1915, 1950
  • 1 nautical chart
  • paper
1000Amos Sinclair Ice Company Record Books
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Businesses, Service Business
Box 1 Record book, 1932-1935 Record book, 1944-1946 Record book, 1915-1952
  • 1915-1952
  • 1 box
  • ledger books
Description:
Box 1 Record book, 1932-1935 Record book, 1944-1946 Record book, 1915-1952
3712Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine
  • Map
  • Places, Town
Fire risk assessment and real property maps. Location map and index. Property/cottage names are included. Second book was updated and modified in 1952.
  • 1927, 1952
  • 2 books (16 maps each)
  • paper
Description:
Fire risk assessment and real property maps. Location map and index. Property/cottage names are included. Second book was updated and modified in 1952.
3878Record of Daily Visitors and Books Circulated
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
Record of daily visitors and books circulated at the Northeast Harbor Library
  • 1935-1953
  • notebook
  • fair
Description:
Record of daily visitors and books circulated at the Northeast Harbor Library
6966Northeast Harbor Fleet
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Photograph Album
  • Organizations
  • Places, Harbor
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
72 B/W and sepia photographs of the Northeast Harbor Fleet around the clubhouse and under sail. Photographs of IOD's Collection brought to the library in 1998 and are listed as coming from the fleet and Joe Grant. See also item 5458 2: Aquila NEH #2 on mainsail only 4: The "30 M" clearly IDs this boat as a 30 sq m, but the M3 probably denotes it as NEH #3, which is Herman Hessenbruch's Agile 8: Three 30 sq m beating into the wind. Agile NEH #2, in the foreground, tacking to starboard while the other hulls are going to port. The left-most boat looks like NEH #6. The wake behind #2 suggest it had just turned smartly. Also note #2's conspicuous large donut life ring on the stern deck 9: see also photo 1156 q 11/55: Flying Cloud 10/49: Vixen III 16: Sagamore 18/42: Vayu 19: Light air amid a pre-race pileup of yacht racing classes, including Aquila NEH #2, and Nordic II NEH #4 23: Sagamore 26: Aquila NEH #2, probably taken minutes after Photo 1852 NEHF 43. Shows the slight curvature of the upper mast, a characteristic of square meter boats 29/30/37: Niliraga 41: Thistle 43: Aquila NEH #2. The much larger boat in the background (white hull) is not a 30 sq. m. 45: Nancy, Agile. Hessenbruch's jib-less Agile NEH #3 being passed by light-hull NEH #6 51: 30 M #5, with a white hull, running and leading NEH #2 Aquila 53: Another view at the race start of Photo 1852 NEHF 55, showing the same boats in the same order left to right. This would be the start of the big boats racing over the same course. It looks like three other 30 sq. m. are racing given the bent upper masts 55: X 42, 4th from left, is a sail number designation (with an X) that was common for 30 sq. m. boats imported from Germany during the early 1930s. X 42 could be (?) the Gluckauf, the boat purchased and renamed as US3 Visitor by L. Francis Herreshoff. Also in the starting line is the 40 sq. m. NEH #2 Tsana III (holding the actual floating line) 56: Malcom N. Stanley's boat, winner class B, August series 57: Blue Hill, 1933 58: Nymph 59: Old Mack B, 1933 62: Class B yachts approaching finish line 67-71: Start of a Northeast Harbor race in the Summer of 1958
  • 1936-37 and 1958
Description:
72 B/W and sepia photographs of the Northeast Harbor Fleet around the clubhouse and under sail. Photographs of IOD's Collection brought to the library in 1998 and are listed as coming from the fleet and Joe Grant. See also item 5458 2: Aquila NEH #2 on mainsail only 4: The "30 M" clearly IDs this boat as a 30 sq m, but the M3 probably denotes it as NEH #3, which is Herman Hessenbruch's Agile 8: Three 30 sq m beating into the wind. Agile NEH #2, in the foreground, tacking to starboard while the other hulls are going to port. The left-most boat looks like NEH #6. The wake behind #2 suggest it had just turned smartly. Also note #2's conspicuous large donut life ring on the stern deck 9: see also photo 1156 q 11/55: Flying Cloud 10/49: Vixen III 16: Sagamore 18/42: Vayu 19: Light air amid a pre-race pileup of yacht racing classes, including Aquila NEH #2, and Nordic II NEH #4 23: Sagamore 26: Aquila NEH #2, probably taken minutes after Photo 1852 NEHF 43. Shows the slight curvature of the upper mast, a characteristic of square meter boats 29/30/37: Niliraga 41: Thistle 43: Aquila NEH #2. The much larger boat in the background (white hull) is not a 30 sq. m. 45: Nancy, Agile. Hessenbruch's jib-less Agile NEH #3 being passed by light-hull NEH #6 51: 30 M #5, with a white hull, running and leading NEH #2 Aquila 53: Another view at the race start of Photo 1852 NEHF 55, showing the same boats in the same order left to right. This would be the start of the big boats racing over the same course. It looks like three other 30 sq. m. are racing given the bent upper masts 55: X 42, 4th from left, is a sail number designation (with an X) that was common for 30 sq. m. boats imported from Germany during the early 1930s. X 42 could be (?) the Gluckauf, the boat purchased and renamed as US3 Visitor by L. Francis Herreshoff. Also in the starting line is the 40 sq. m. NEH #2 Tsana III (holding the actual floating line) 56: Malcom N. Stanley's boat, winner class B, August series 57: Blue Hill, 1933 58: Nymph 59: Old Mack B, 1933 62: Class B yachts approaching finish line 67-71: Start of a Northeast Harbor race in the Summer of 1958 [show more]
1833Patriarchal Picnics
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Places, Island
Frances Eliot reminisces in this essay of summer days in Northeast Harbor with Charles Eliot, President of Harvard Univ. (her father-in-law). She was the wife of Rev. Samuel Eliot.
  • Frances Hopkinson Eliot
  • 1940-1950
  • pages 55-56
  • magazine
Description:
Frances Eliot reminisces in this essay of summer days in Northeast Harbor with Charles Eliot, President of Harvard Univ. (her father-in-law). She was the wife of Rev. Samuel Eliot.
5369William Draper Lewis
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
Chairman of the Library for many years.
  • Shelburne Studios, New York
  • 1940's-1950's ?
  • 1 photograph
Description:
Chairman of the Library for many years.
2399Sketch Maps of Northeast Harbor, 1946-1957
  • Document, Projection, Plan
  • Other, Land
  • Places, Town
B/W Sketch maps 15"x18" of Northeast Harbor prepared by Knowles Real Estate showing numbered summer cottages, businesses, and roads. Maps of 1947, 1956 are missing.
  • Knowles Company
  • 1946-1957
  • 8
  • MAP
Description:
B/W Sketch maps 15"x18" of Northeast Harbor prepared by Knowles Real Estate showing numbered summer cottages, businesses, and roads. Maps of 1947, 1956 are missing.
6796Untitled
  • Document, Government
  • Places
DISTRIBUTION BOOK- Ledger book containing all town accounts 20 x 12.75 x 7 Post Bound ledger; black cloth cover
  • 1947-1956
Description:
DISTRIBUTION BOOK- Ledger book containing all town accounts 20 x 12.75 x 7 Post Bound ledger; black cloth cover
5161Northeast Harbor Fire House
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Public Safety, Fire Station
  • Transportation, Truck, Fire Truck
Northeast Harbor Fire House on Main Street with three trucks parked in front, one a 1948 snub-nosed Ford. The two men sitting in open truck are Fred Kimball of the police department and William S. Grant who donated the truck.
  • H. Eaton
  • 1949-1950
Description:
Northeast Harbor Fire House on Main Street with three trucks parked in front, one a 1948 snub-nosed Ford. The two men sitting in open truck are Fred Kimball of the police department and William S. Grant who donated the truck.
5046Carl Kelley
  • Image, Photograph
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • People
Scan of photograph of Carl Kelley, Principal of Gilman High School.
  • 1950
  • photocopy
Description:
Scan of photograph of Carl Kelley, Principal of Gilman High School.
5314William Draper Lewis
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
B/W photograph of a painting of William Draper Lewis (in robes) by Cameron Burnside.
  • Cameron Burnside
  • 1950
Description:
B/W photograph of a painting of William Draper Lewis (in robes) by Cameron Burnside.
5605Northeast Harbor Fleet
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
Sailing. Willis H. Ballard, Southwest Harbor, ME
  • Willis H. Ballard
  • 1950
  • 10 photographs
Description:
Sailing. Willis H. Ballard, Southwest Harbor, ME
5615Panic in the Streets
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording
  • People
Barbara Bel Geddes, famed actress from Northeast Harbor, appears 3X in this film. archives -
  • 1950
  • VHS
Description:
Barbara Bel Geddes, famed actress from Northeast Harbor, appears 3X in this film. archives -