Description: A generic Red Cross Soilder's Mail postcard with a printed message: "The ship on which I sailed has arrived safely overseas." Signed by Raymond Somes.
Description: 12 photographic postcards showing this class of sailboat at entrance to Somes Sound, Mount Desert Island, Maine. Some of these Compact Craft, first built at Mount Desert Yact Yard, and designed by Farnum Butler, were towed 1000 miles overland for the race.
Description: Postcard of the Swan's Island Ferry, underway, 1961. Published in 1965. Back of card: Operated by Maine State Ferry Service, carries 150 passengers and 8 cars between mcKinlye, in Acadia national Park, and Swans Island, Maine. A 5 mile trip in 35 minutes across beautfiul Blue Hill Bay. Note on original sleeve: Sold $6,000 to H.G. Reed, $103.00
Description: Collection of images from MDI Historical Society and other sources for talk given by Roc Caivano, architect, for Acadia Senior College group at Sips, April 5, 2013.
Description: "Capt. Geo. Frisbee Sir please $51 to pay _ Clement, Salisbury and Welles In Co, $51 and bring me a receipt from the same. No 51 Kirby Street Boston" Gouldsboro. Back has a series of names: Eden Higging, Capt George Frisbee, Jacob H. Higgins Jacob written over and over. Eden written twice. References to Frisbee, Clement, Salisbury, Clark, Higgins.
Description: Cream jug from Rock End Hotel, Northeast Harbor. Labeled "made in Germany" and E.J. Totten of Northeast Harbor on bottom. Image of the hotel on the jug.
Description: Samuel de Champlain April 1882 - Information about Samuel de Champlain Compiled/Written 1882 A copy of whole paper on Champlain by C. Eliot for Nathan Price (in 11 pages)
Description: Stationery card with photograph by George Daniell, printed in 1996 by Borealis Press. Photo shows Daniell leaning back in boat with legs spread. Note says that picture was taken on Grand Manan in 1938. Studio in Trenton, ME
Description: Small notebook (4" x 6") with mottoes written in pencil, e.g., "We make our fortunes but we call them fate." Name on cover: Dora Hadley, Mount Desert, Maine. Cover has drawing of girl in hat, coat, boots, carrying a crutch and pulling a red wagon piled with furniture.