Description: Auctioneer (possibly Mr. Mayo, per May 2011 "Mystery Photographs" exhibit) wearing light colored pin stripe suit with tasseled loafers. Auctioneer holds items for sale in his hand. Standing in front of tent. U.S. Coast Guard emblem on podium. Furniture and other auction items to the left.
Description: Interior of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum 1980s.Bare wood shelves. Various tools and small ship painting. Babson portrait to the left.
Description: Supplement to the Bar Harbor Times, each including several artices, pertaining to development in the towns of Mt. Desert Island and Trenton. Bar Harbor Struggles with Big City Problems; Previously archived as object Id 012.FIC.043.4
Description: Bar Harbor Times, “Selects” section. “Historic Houses on View” in Tremont for sesquicentennial. Houses include Bass Harbor LIghthouse Keeper''s Cottage, "Goose Gables," owned by Sam Hamill, and other homes in the Tremont area.
Description: Bar Harbor Times “Mount Desert Island’s Granite Heritage” by Vicotr Layton July 15, 1982. Previously accessioned as **0887, Object Id 012.FIC.043.13
Description: Bar Harbor Times “Somesville Faces Impact of Urban Sprawl” by Diana Abrell July 30, 1987. Previously acessioned as **0896, Object Id 012.FIC.043.4
Description: Bar Harbor Times: “Southwest Harbor Collides with Change” by Nan Lincoln July 23, 1987. Previously accessioned as **0897, Object Id 012.FIC.043.4
Description: Figures walking on beach at low tide. MDI League of Women Voters celebrated the Year of the Coast with an informal picnic and hike to Bar Island on August 23, 1980. In this photo they are heading across at low tide.
Description: Stretch of unspoiled shoreline. MDI League of Women Voters celebrated the Year of the Coast with an informal picnic and hike to Bar Island on August 23, 1980. Pictured is Bar Island shore with Bald Porcupine Island on the right.
Description: Article describes results and subsequent action of a 1987 study of sources of pollution in the Bass Harbor Marsh and Marshall Brook. The Worcester Landfill was determined to be a source of leachate. An associate article , "The marsh has been the subject of many studies" follows.
Description: Program for the Benefit Chamber Music Concert out on Great Cranberry Island, Sunday Aug 4, 1985. Shows the music preformed and the musicians, hosts, ushers, reception hosts, raffel hosts, and a history of the Acady Music Fiestival.
Description: Six sheets containing five bids by various contractors for construction of new museum building in Somesville for the MDI Historical Society.
Description: Photocopy (2pp.) of handwritten notes pertaining to various members of the Somes family in colonial Mass. Notes were taken from the source: "Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750" by Christine Leigh Heyrman publ. by W.W. Norton Co., New York, 1984.
Description: Women lined up along a fence view and handle sheep. LaRue Spiker looks on as Mollie Birdsall holds black lamb. Louise Gilbert, Ruth Cummins, Doris Riley are along fence. Visit to Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 is in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters..