Description: Small (4'" X 6", 55pps.) booklet: Visitors' Guide and Directory. Contains decriptions of villages (Northeast Harbor, Seal Harbor, Somes Sound, Somesville, Business and Church Directory, sailing and motoring directions, advertisements, and a 1942 map of Mount Desert Island. Photographs by W.H. Ballard and C.K. Savage.
Description: 76-page booklet: A Report Prepared for The Mount Desert Island Regional High School Committee by the Survey Staff, Mark R. Shibles, Director. The report recommended establishing "a single, six-year Regional Secondary School for the youth of the entire Island" (school consolidation). Also gave plans for use of existing school buildings affected by this new organization. Includes a center photographic spread of the existing buildings.
Description: Publication entirely about an event in Peekskill, NY. A concert was stopped from occurring by a racist mob and the police took very little action. LaRue Spiker collection.
Description: Horizontal piece routed out to fit vertical piece. Nailed in center. Nailed to base. Painted brown. Paint flaking. Donor info - came from Hall Quarry Chapel in use from approximately 1890 to 1940.
Object, Ritual Container, Communion Vessel, Communion Set
Date:
c 1890 - 1940
Description: Plate has a medium tone stain. Three rubber legs on bottom, hardened with age. Thirty-six tiny clear glass cups. Each is 1 and 3/4 inches high. There is one cup missing. The donor indicated that these are from the Hall Quarry Chapel which existed from 1890-1940.
Description: Full length cream infant's christening gown. Pleating and and embroidery from neck to hem. Short sleeves edged with lace. Lace around squared column and hem. "Hand Made Imported."
Description: Biggest Job in 26 Years Faces Publicity Bureau Newspaper clippings (photocopies) of articles about the loss of Bar Harbor after the 1947 fire. There are also letters discussing how to contradict information in the news claiming the fire burned everything.
Description: Silk infant jacket with ribbon tie, four embroidered pink flowers with green leaves, lace around scalloped collar and border including sleeves.
Description: Announcement by unknown radio station of what radio announcer Johnny McCray saw regarding Fire of 1947, 2 photocpies, radio announcement of description of what Superintendent of Public Works, Bangor(?) Reprint on computer
Description: Unknown who wrote letter regarding recollection of Bar Harbor Fire, Fire of 1947 from Somesville, trying to get firefighters to Salisbury Cove
Description: Sale for $1.00 1/2 of the interest in unidentified real estate in Hancock County by Harriet S. Sanderson Notes on original from 1982. Original and photocopy
Description: 1940 Somesville Union Meeting House Summer Worship Schedule Card from July 7 to August 25. INcludes Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Tertius Van Dyke, Horace Leavitt, Samuel Eliot, Arthur Wilson, John N0ss, Perry Smith , John Whiteman