Description: Section of a blue print showing Pretty Marsh on MDI. Handwritten notes related to plot sales. Marked "Property Map Town of Mount Desert Hancock County Main prepared by James W. Sewall." Shows several plots on Indian Point Road and has handwritten numbers and the names Stephen Dexter Smith to Ansel L. Manchester and Richard Smith to Stephen Dexter Smith 1871. Scale: 1 inch=500 feet
Description: Parade float for Mt. Desert Island Historical Society. Larger banner on end of float proclaims, “Twixt the Hills.” Bango and fiddle player in 19th century costume on end of float decorated in red, white, and blue. Women in costume in back of float with spining wheel and Museum sign. Crowd watches from the sidewalk.
Description: Art show on Village Green in Bar Harbor. Paintings displayed near sidewalk. Woman walks past paintings. Four people seated in lawn chairs in facing away from paintings. Congregational Church in background. Cars parked along street and in church parking lot. Gift of George Daniell.
Description: Southwest Harbor Town Dock and Beal’s Lobster Wharf. Three punts on float below Beal's. Barrels and traps piled on the pier. Car near the back door of the lobster pound.
Description: Unknown teenage girls holding lobster given to them by a fisherman at the dock. Maine News Service Photo. Paper stapled to photo read, “You pick’em out yourself when you are lobster-hungry in Maine. A Maine lobster, fresh from the clean northern Atlantic, is a taste thrill beyond compare.”
Description: Houses on Main street Somesville. Somes Cove in foreground. Marked, “Somes Cove, Mt. Desert” in lower right corner. House on left is historic Lewis Somes house. See same photo. on p. 8, Album #1 (997-306-471)
Description: Lumber Mill in Somesville in operation. Logs piled up on bank in foreground. Logs fill mill pond ready to be milled. Somes Harbor in the background. Telephone pole in foreground next to tall tree. See also p. 8, Photo Album #1 (997-307-472)
Description: Lumber Mill in Somesville in operation. Logs piled up on bank in foreground. Logs fill mill pond ready to be milled. Somes Harbor in the background. Telephone pole in foreground next to tall tree. No date. Appears to have been photo. pasted in small scrapbook. On verso: 997-306-471 (Main St., Somesville & Somes Cove)
Description: Houses on Main Street, Somesville. Somes Cove in foreground. Marked, “Somes Cove, Mt. Desert” in lower right corner. House on left is historic Lewis Somes house. No date. May have been postcard pasted into small scrapbook. On verso: 997-307-472 See also p. 11, same photo (997-313-478)
Description: Guide to understanding old buildings, written especially for home-owners in northern New England. Discusses evolution of building technology from log buildings through framed houses, evolution of style, and evolution of key features.
Description: Magazine issue with article dedicated to Skylands home in Seal Harbor Maine, formerly Ford home built in 1939, includes photographs. September 2000 page 256
Historic Preservation Education Foundation and the National Park Service
Date:
1999
Description: Series of articles by various people in chapters about Guidelines and References, History and Technology, Planning and Specifications, and Roofing Materials