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4088Somes Sound, Saint Sauveur, Acadia Mountains
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Sound
Taken from the shore near Manchester Road west of "Rosserne".
  • Isaac T. Moore
  • 1976
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Taken from the shore near Manchester Road west of "Rosserne".
4089Somes Sound, Saint Sauveur, Acadia Mountains
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Mountain
  • Places, Sound
From the area of Sand Point
  • Isaac T. Moore
  • 1976
Description:
From the area of Sand Point
4070Somes Sound and Acadia Mountain
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Golf Course
  • Places, Mountain
  • Places, Sound
The farm in middle distance is the Corson farm, whose fields became the golf course. The farmhouse was moved and is now "Millbrook Cottage"
  • Isaac T. Moore
Description:
The farm in middle distance is the Corson farm, whose fields became the golf course. The farmhouse was moved and is now "Millbrook Cottage"
4998Somes Sound
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Mountain
  • Places, Sound
Acadia Mountain in background. From Sargeant Drive looking northwest.
  • John Pervear
  • 1988
Description:
Acadia Mountain in background. From Sargeant Drive looking northwest.
4175Somes Sound
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Landscape
  • Places, Mountain
  • Places, Sound
Looking down on Somes Sound from the Bordeaux property. Mountains: Brown's, now Norumbega on right, Acadia, and Hall Quarry.
  • Isaac T. Moore
  • 1904
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Looking down on Somes Sound from the Bordeaux property. Mountains: Brown's, now Norumbega on right, Acadia, and Hall Quarry.
4176Somes Sound
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Landscape
  • Places, Mountain
  • Places, Sound
Looking down Somes Sound. Norumbega and Acadia mountains in background, Babson's (or Gull) Rock to middle right, on shore.
  • Isaac T. Moore
  • 1904
Description:
Looking down Somes Sound. Norumbega and Acadia mountains in background, Babson's (or Gull) Rock to middle right, on shore.
4177Somes Sound
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Sound
This view involves the farm that became Bordeaux Dairy.
  • Isaac T. Moore
Description:
This view involves the farm that became Bordeaux Dairy.
4965Small Photograph album
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places
Views of places on Mount Desert Island.
  • 4 pages of postcards
  • 1 photograph album made of black construction paper
Description:
Views of places on Mount Desert Island.
6144Sir Samuel Argall, the First Englishman at Mount Desert
  • Publication, Book
  • People
Publication of a paper presented by William Sawtelle to the Maine Historical Society in 1923 about Samuel Argall, merchant tailor, of Bristol, England, and the first Englishman recorded to have visited Mount Desert Island in 1613.
  • William Otis Sawtelle (1874-1939)
  • 1924
  • 23
  • 1 book
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Publication of a paper presented by William Sawtelle to the Maine Historical Society in 1923 about Samuel Argall, merchant tailor, of Bristol, England, and the first Englishman recorded to have visited Mount Desert Island in 1613.
2044Shipbuilding on Mount Desert Island
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Ship
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
Copy of Stanley's "History of Shipbuilding on MDI "with a list of vessels built between 1782 and 1902. Several photographs of the boats were added by R. Pyle at the Northeast Harbor library.
  • Ralph Stanley
  • 2010
  • 94
  • typescript
Description:
Copy of Stanley's "History of Shipbuilding on MDI "with a list of vessels built between 1782 and 1902. Several photographs of the boats were added by R. Pyle at the Northeast Harbor library.
6108SALT Journal of New England Culture
  • Publication, Book
  • Places, Island
Special Features on Mount Desert Island
  • Winter 1982
  • 80
  • magazine
Description:
Special Features on Mount Desert Island
1468Rose Lamb's Sketch Book
  • Object, Painting, Sketchbook
  • People
  • Places, Island
Rose Lamb, the aunt of Aimee and Rosamund Lamb of Sutton Island used to come to the Asticou Inn. The sketch book includes pencil sketches of people and places on Mount Desert Island.
  • Rose Lamb
  • 1869
  • 1 book
  • paper
  • very fragile
Description:
Rose Lamb, the aunt of Aimee and Rosamund Lamb of Sutton Island used to come to the Asticou Inn. The sketch book includes pencil sketches of people and places on Mount Desert Island.
4195Rocky cliff
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Shore
Tall rocky cliff on the shore.
  • Isaac T. Moore
  • 1904
Description:
Tall rocky cliff on the shore.
5928Rock End Hotel Postcard Foldout
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
Images and information about the Rock End Hotel and Cottages, grounds, and views from the hotel. a: Rock End Hotel, enlarged 1909 b: Hotel and adjacent grounds c: Looking north to Brown's Mountain. Village of Northeast Harbor on the right, one quarter of a mile distant d: View of western way and the ocean, looking south from the hotel piazza e: View of Western Mountain from hotel f: View from the piazza showing Some Sound and the public boathouse 500 feet southwest of the hotel g: Bear Island Light, one mile southeast from the hotel, sean from third story window h: Looking southwest from the hotel piazza i: View of Robinson and Western Mountains, northwest of the hotel j: From Greenough's Island looking northeast to the hotel k: St. Mary's by the Sea, on thousand feet from the hotel l: Jordan Pond, a fine place for rowing or fishing m: Maine Central Railraod Ferry boats passing in front of the hotel, one half mile away n: View to the southeast from second story of the hotel showing, over the tree tops, Bear Island Light one mile away o: View of Sargent Mountain and Asticou Hill, northeast of the hotel
  • 3 foldouts with 15 photos and descriptions
Description:
Images and information about the Rock End Hotel and Cottages, grounds, and views from the hotel. a: Rock End Hotel, enlarged 1909 b: Hotel and adjacent grounds c: Looking north to Brown's Mountain. Village of Northeast Harbor on the right, one quarter of a mile distant d: View of western way and the ocean, looking south from the hotel piazza e: View of Western Mountain from hotel f: View from the piazza showing Some Sound and the public boathouse 500 feet southwest of the hotel g: Bear Island Light, one mile southeast from the hotel, sean from third story window h: Looking southwest from the hotel piazza i: View of Robinson and Western Mountains, northwest of the hotel j: From Greenough's Island looking northeast to the hotel k: St. Mary's by the Sea, on thousand feet from the hotel l: Jordan Pond, a fine place for rowing or fishing m: Maine Central Railraod Ferry boats passing in front of the hotel, one half mile away n: View to the southeast from second story of the hotel showing, over the tree tops, Bear Island Light one mile away o: View of Sargent Mountain and Asticou Hill, northeast of the hotel [show more]
7338Roc Caivano
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
Elly Andrews interviews 4 of Roc Caivano's close friends from his Yale years: Bob Knight, Peter Woerner, Tom Carey, and Ron Filson. Roc received his BA from Dartmouth College and a Master of Architecture degree from Yale University. He and and wife Helen arrived on MDI in 1974 where he was hired to start a program in Environmental Design at the College of the Atlantic. While at COA, Roc, Barbara Sassaman and Harris Hyman established an office in Southwest Harbor where they were involved in the renovation of the Turrets, a granite shorefront “cottage” designed by Bruce Price and originally built in 1895. They also created the Wendell Gilley Museum, the Somesville bridge and a number of single family residences. For over 45 years Roc Caivano Architects prepared the master plan for Acadia National Park, the renovation and conversion of the Schoodic Navel Station in to the Schoodic National Park Education Center, Acadia’s Fee Station and the Island Explorer Bus Shelter System, the Mary Dow and MDI Hospital Oncology Centers and other medical and educational facilities.
  • 07.10.2021
Description:
Elly Andrews interviews 4 of Roc Caivano's close friends from his Yale years: Bob Knight, Peter Woerner, Tom Carey, and Ron Filson. Roc received his BA from Dartmouth College and a Master of Architecture degree from Yale University. He and and wife Helen arrived on MDI in 1974 where he was hired to start a program in Environmental Design at the College of the Atlantic. While at COA, Roc, Barbara Sassaman and Harris Hyman established an office in Southwest Harbor where they were involved in the renovation of the Turrets, a granite shorefront “cottage” designed by Bruce Price and originally built in 1895. They also created the Wendell Gilley Museum, the Somesville bridge and a number of single family residences. For over 45 years Roc Caivano Architects prepared the master plan for Acadia National Park, the renovation and conversion of the Schoodic Navel Station in to the Schoodic National Park Education Center, Acadia’s Fee Station and the Island Explorer Bus Shelter System, the Mary Dow and MDI Hospital Oncology Centers and other medical and educational facilities. [show more]
2418Road and Path Map of Mount Desert Island
  • Document, Projection, Plan
  • Places, Hiking Trail
  • Places, Road
Topographical map, 28x24", showing the roads and hiking paths and trails on Mount Desert Island and the Cranberry Isles.
  • W. G. Bunker
  • 2 copies
  • MAP
  • fragile, damaged
Description:
Topographical map, 28x24", showing the roads and hiking paths and trails on Mount Desert Island and the Cranberry Isles.
2055Richard Rothe and Mount Desert Island Maine
  • Publication, Catalog
  • People
  • Places, Island
Catalog from Clark Point Gallery in SW Harbor for summer exhibit of photographs by Richard Herman Rothe, landscape designer. In 1906 he became superintendent of Mount Desert Nurseries on Nursery Lane, Northeast Harbor.
  • Robert Torchia
  • 2011
Description:
Catalog from Clark Point Gallery in SW Harbor for summer exhibit of photographs by Richard Herman Rothe, landscape designer. In 1906 he became superintendent of Mount Desert Nurseries on Nursery Lane, Northeast Harbor.
5091Resource Conservation Zones
  • Image, Photograph
  • Other, Land
  • Places, Mountain
  • Places, River
  • Places, Shore
Twenty-six b/w photographs by Russell Butcher, formerly of Seal Harbor, of undeveloped land in the town of Mount Desert proposed as possible resource conservation zones by the Town conservation committee.
  • Russell Butcher
  • 1970's
  • 26 photographs
Description:
Twenty-six b/w photographs by Russell Butcher, formerly of Seal Harbor, of undeveloped land in the town of Mount Desert proposed as possible resource conservation zones by the Town conservation committee.
2576Property of J. Stanley Reeve at Deep Cove
  • Document, Projection, Plan
  • Other, Land
Blueprint, 49x36", of property lot of J. Stanley Reeve at Deep Cove on Western Bay.
  • Charles A. Haynes
  • 1929
  • 1
  • MAP
  • fragile, damaged
Description:
Blueprint, 49x36", of property lot of J. Stanley Reeve at Deep Cove on Western Bay.
6957Philomena Manchester Photograph Album - Winter Scenes
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Places, Sound
  • Vessels, Steamboat
Various photographs of winter scenes from the early 1900s. Box 2 (MAN 85)
  • 12 photographs
Description:
Various photographs of winter scenes from the early 1900s. Box 2 (MAN 85)
5722Phelps Family Photographs
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • People
19 nitrate negatives have begun to deteriorate. 11/13/15-Hannah Related to diaries GEN 0372 61. Thompson Island bridge (Trenton bridge) 64. View from the Claremont, Southwest Harbor
  • 19 nitrate negatives, 33 photographs, 1 letter, 1 envelope, 1 sleeve
Description:
19 nitrate negatives have begun to deteriorate. 11/13/15-Hannah Related to diaries GEN 0372 61. Thompson Island bridge (Trenton bridge) 64. View from the Claremont, Southwest Harbor
5822Path to Schooner Head, Mount Desert, ME
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Hiking Trail
  • Charles A. Townsend
5323Path map of eastern part of Mount Desert Island
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Places, Island
Negative of photograph of the 1896 Bates, Rand and Jacques path map of the Eastern part of MDI
Description:
Negative of photograph of the 1896 Bates, Rand and Jacques path map of the Eastern part of MDI
4414Norway Drive in winter
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Road
Winter scene
  • Sterling Haskell
  • 1950's
Description:
Winter scene
5504Northeast Harbor Panoramic Postcards
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Harbor
  • Places, Mountain
  • Places, Sound
  • Places, Town
a: Northeast Harbor Fleet and walkway to Smallidge Point. b: Showing the harbor view from Spurling & Ladd boat slip c: Showing the Spurling & Ladd boat slip (Clifton Dock) viewed from the Clifton Hotel. Dock is active with people and horses. d: From Spurling & Ladd boat slip (Clifton Dock) of a variety of boats in the harbor. e: Asticou Mountain (Eliot Mountain) of the harbor and village in Northeast Harbor. Several village of Northeast Harbor. A few cottage sites are identified. f: Northeast Harbor Swim Club with a canoe in the pool and a large number of people surrounding it. g: Looking across Somes Sound from Indian Head. h: Toward Somes Sound and Flying and Acadia Mountains from "Westover" on Schoolhouse Ledge. The "Disston Bungalow" is the Corson Farm before it was moved. Tilton Cottage is also identified. i: Somes Sound from Flying Mountain. Eagle Lake can be seen in the center. The upper road on the east shore of the Sound was abandoned in the 1930's. j: Northeast Harbor Belle Smallidge Collection
  • Knowles Company
  • ca. 1900
  • 10 panoramic postcards
Description:
a: Northeast Harbor Fleet and walkway to Smallidge Point. b: Showing the harbor view from Spurling & Ladd boat slip c: Showing the Spurling & Ladd boat slip (Clifton Dock) viewed from the Clifton Hotel. Dock is active with people and horses. d: From Spurling & Ladd boat slip (Clifton Dock) of a variety of boats in the harbor. e: Asticou Mountain (Eliot Mountain) of the harbor and village in Northeast Harbor. Several village of Northeast Harbor. A few cottage sites are identified. f: Northeast Harbor Swim Club with a canoe in the pool and a large number of people surrounding it. g: Looking across Somes Sound from Indian Head. h: Toward Somes Sound and Flying and Acadia Mountains from "Westover" on Schoolhouse Ledge. The "Disston Bungalow" is the Corson Farm before it was moved. Tilton Cottage is also identified. i: Somes Sound from Flying Mountain. Eagle Lake can be seen in the center. The upper road on the east shore of the Sound was abandoned in the 1930's. j: Northeast Harbor Belle Smallidge Collection [show more]