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Item Title Type Subject Description Creator Date Property Name Street Pages Medium Condition
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]
5771Town House Restaurant
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • People
Roy Salisbury Collection
  • 1952-1953
  • 3 photographs
Description:
Roy Salisbury Collection
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]
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
5755Town and Country Tweed Storefront
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Store Business
Roy Salisbury Collection. Now the Romantic Room.
  • 1950's
  • Main Street, Northeast Harbor
  • 1 photograph
Description:
Roy Salisbury Collection. Now the Romantic Room.
1700Movie schedule of Pastime Theater
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Businesses, Theater Business
Weekly movie schedule of the Pastime Theater in Northeast Harbor.
  • 1950's ?
  • 4
  • newspaper
Description:
Weekly movie schedule of the Pastime Theater in Northeast Harbor.
5571Memorial Day Parade
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events, Civic
Photograph of honor guard and band marching in the Memorial Day parade. Pine Tree Market is on right. Scanned from Facebook.
  • 1951
Description:
Photograph of honor guard and band marching in the Memorial Day parade. Pine Tree Market is on right. Scanned from Facebook.
1520Science Challenges the Educator
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Events, Civic
  • Organizations, School Institution
President-elect of Northeastern University, Asa S. Knowles typescript of the dedication of the Science Laboratories at Mount Desert High School in 1959.
  • Asa Smallidge Knowles (1909-1990)
  • 1959
  • 17 pages (2 copies)
  • typescript
Description:
President-elect of Northeastern University, Asa S. Knowles typescript of the dedication of the Science Laboratories at Mount Desert High School in 1959.
1521Dedication of the Gilman Plaque
  • Document, Program
  • Events, Civic
  • Object, Sign
April 26, 1959 Program from the dedication of the Gilman Plaque honoring Daniel Coit Gilman at the Mount Desert High School in Northeast Harbor, Maine.
  • Daniel Coit Gilman
  • 1959
  • 18
  • typescript
Description:
April 26, 1959 Program from the dedication of the Gilman Plaque honoring Daniel Coit Gilman at the Mount Desert High School in Northeast Harbor, Maine.
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
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
5785Rusty Salisbury's 8th Birthday Party
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events, Personal Milestone
  • People
Roy Salisbury Collection Left to Right Back Row: Kenny Savage, Mimi Salisbury, Paul Salisbury, Bobby Davis, Bucky Sullivan Front Row: Rusty Salisbury, Wayne Stanley, Dickie Hill, Johnny Adams, Tommy Henckler, Billy Nicholson, Carl Beyler
  • 3/4/1952
  • 1 photograph
Description:
Roy Salisbury Collection Left to Right Back Row: Kenny Savage, Mimi Salisbury, Paul Salisbury, Bobby Davis, Bucky Sullivan Front Row: Rusty Salisbury, Wayne Stanley, Dickie Hill, Johnny Adams, Tommy Henckler, Billy Nicholson, Carl Beyler
2189Parish of St. Mary's and St. Jude's is Observing its 75th Anniversary
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Events, Personal Milestone
  • Organizations, Religious
Full page article published in the Bar Harbor Times, entitled " Sunday in the Parish", featuring clergy and parishioners to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the parish. Several b/w photographs.
  • 5/23/1957
  • 2
  • newspaper
Description:
Full page article published in the Bar Harbor Times, entitled " Sunday in the Parish", featuring clergy and parishioners to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the parish. Several b/w photographs.
2268Modern Deer Management Methods Needed in Maine
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Nature, Animals
  • Places, Island
  • Lawrie Holmes
  • 12/12/1952
  • 2
  • typescript
3538Ebony Eagle, carving
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Bald Eagle # 180, July 1955. Purchased from exhibit.
  • Charles Greenough Chase
  • 1955
Description:
Bald Eagle # 180, July 1955. Purchased from exhibit.
1523Notes Added in 1951, on 20 Years' Change
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Notes added to the Birds of Northeast Harbor from 1931.
  • Samuel A. Eliot
  • 1951
  • 3 pages manuscript, 3 pages photograph copy
  • typescript, photograph copy
Description:
Notes added to the Birds of Northeast Harbor from 1931.
1524Birds - Mount Desert
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
June 10-24, 1959 Notes added to the Birds of Mount Desert.
  • Samuel A. Eliot
  • 1959
  • 2 pages manuscript, 2 pages photograph copy
  • typescript, photograph copy
Description:
June 10-24, 1959 Notes added to the Birds of Mount Desert.
3533Coat of Arms of State of Maine, carving
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Object, Sign
Commissioned by Mrs. Milliken, Sr. for the old Milliken Room.
  • Wendell Gilley
  • 1955
Description:
Commissioned by Mrs. Milliken, Sr. for the old Milliken Room.
5567Main Street, Northeast Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Ticket
Scanned copy of a benefit ticket of Boy Scout Troop #96 for trip to Camp Roosevelt. Scanned from Facebook
  • 1951
Description:
Scanned copy of a benefit ticket of Boy Scout Troop #96 for trip to Camp Roosevelt. Scanned from Facebook
5458Northeast Harbor Fleet
  • Image, Photograph
  • Organizations
  • Places, Harbor
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
8 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 6966
  • 1950s ?
Description:
8 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 6966
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]
7315Edith Drury Scrapbook
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Scrapbook
  • Organizations
  • Vessels, Boat
Mrs. Edith Drury scrapbook containing articles written for the "Maine Coast Fisherman", 1953-1954, in her column "God's Tugboat". Blue cloth hard cover with gilded letters.
  • Edith Drury
  • 1953
  • Blue textured scrapbook
  • good
Description:
Mrs. Edith Drury scrapbook containing articles written for the "Maine Coast Fisherman", 1953-1954, in her column "God's Tugboat". Blue cloth hard cover with gilded letters.
7093Opportunities on Maine Farms
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Organizations, Civic
With a personal message from Fred J. Nutter, Commissioner of Agriculture, State of Maine. Contains articles, photographs and detailed production maps for beef and sheep, dairy, poultry, gardens and fruit, food processing plants, apples and blueberries.
  • State of Maine
  • 1952
  • 22
  • 1 booklet
  • good
Description:
With a personal message from Fred J. Nutter, Commissioner of Agriculture, State of Maine. Contains articles, photographs and detailed production maps for beef and sheep, dairy, poultry, gardens and fruit, food processing plants, apples and blueberries.
1947The National Red Cross Building Deed
  • Document, Legal, Deed
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Structures, Institutional, Health Facility
The deed transferring the Red Cross Building in Northeast Harbor to Mount Desert Public Health Nursing Association.
  • Fred A. Winfrey
  • 4/14/1950
  • 2
  • photocopy
Description:
The deed transferring the Red Cross Building in Northeast Harbor to Mount Desert Public Health Nursing Association.
5742Boy Scout Troop #96
  • Image, Photograph
  • Organizations, Civic, Boy Scouts
  • People
Roy Salisbury Collection
  • 6/23/1951
  • 1 photograph
Description:
Roy Salisbury Collection