Description: Three items: 1) Photocopied history of ownership of Isaac Somes House in Somesville, ME. 2)Photocopy, possibly from "Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor, describing homes built by the sons of Abraham Somes. 3)Handwritten records pertaining to deeds on Somes properties.
Description: Handwritten notes of Virginia Somes Sanderson pertaining to the handling of her proposed donation of the Somes house to the Mount Desert Island Historical Society.
Description: Typewritten and handwritten resolution of the MDI Historical Society to decline the proposed donation of the Virginia Somes Sanderson house. Mrs. Sanderson appended her handwritten comments to the resolution at a later date.
Description: Typewritten agenda and handwritten notes of the Board of Directors of the MDI Historical Society meeting. Consideration of refusal of the proposed gift of the Virginia Somes Sanderson house and discussion of the future of the Society.
Description: Notes created by the MDI Historical Society regarding the Virginia Somes Sanderson house, which Sanderson proposed to donate to the Society for use as a museum. Sanderson's own notes are appended to the original.
MDI Historical Society Committee on V. Sanderson Gift
Collection:
MDI Historical Society
Date:
1968
Description: Typewritten draft and final report of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Committee on the V. Sanderson proposed gift of her home to the Society. Committee proposed acceptance of the gift with modifications to conditions.
Description: Seven handwritten pages of meeting notes pertaining to proposed donation of Virginia Somes Sanderson's historical Somesville house to the MDI Historical Society for use as a museum.
Description: One page article with photographs describing new"self-contained" house in Bar Harbor. Home of Nora and Richard Davis depended on solar and wind power. House designer was Ernest McMullen. Previously archived as 012.FIC.046.4
Description: Partial article (first page only) with photograph pertaining to the razing of The Eyrie, the John D. Rockefeller summer home in Seal Harbor.
Description: Copy of photograph. Street lined with businesses and telephones poles. Gold Metal Flour sign on the left. Early car near the sign. Horse and wagon in back of the car.
Allen-Holmes-Smith Photographs and other materials
Description: Black and white photograph of unknown house with attached garage and with well kept shrubs and lawn. House number 383 is above the front door.
Description: A two-volune history of these houses, arranged by location Volume One: Richtown Road to "Upper" Clark's Point Road Volume Two: Andrew Lopaus House (Kelleytown Road) to James Moulden/Bill Robinson House Inscribed by the author to the MDI Historical Society
Description: Published photographs from unknown source showing Gloucester, Mass., harbor in 1892, and the home of J.J. Somes on Washington Street, Gloucester.