Description: This book is the story of Maine public education in the 20th century; it traces the history from small community schoolhouses to a "seamless statewide system" with the attendant tensions that accompany this transition.
Object, Water Transporation, Life Preserver, Life Jacket
Date:
11/28/2016
Description: An adult white life jacket. Cloth somewhat worn and dirty; some stains and holes. Dated March 6, 1930, "C.H.S." on jacket with worn words and STEAM VESSELS, NEW YORK, N.Y." Additional wording, "ADULTS, ATLANTIC-PACIFIC MFG. CORP. 124-128 ATLANTIC AVE. BROOKLYN N.Y"
Description: Three copies of this photograph accessed under this number. Copy 1 is an 8 by 10 inch black and white photograph copy of a Ballard photo used in an exhibit around 2002. It is of a sailboat race off Northeast Harbor. The race committee boat is to the right of the print, below the Bear Island Lighthouse. Copies 2 and 3 are the same photograph but enlarged to 11 by 14 inch.
Description: There are two folders entitled "Fred Savage, S.W. Bridgham, Esq., Bar Harbor". The first is marked as having 42 trace and 33 linens for a total of 75 items. The second is marked as having blueprints, 3 items. 2012 exhibit text: Ledgelawn Cottage for S. W. Bridgeham Bar Harbor, ME, 1900 Ink and ink wash on tracing paper These elevation studies demonstrate a clear attempt to express the interior spacial complexities in the exterior massing of this fine cottage. The mass of the building is punctuated by chimneys and bay windows to achieve a picturesque composition sheathed in shingles. This cottage, now an inn, remains substantially unchanged. [show more]
Description: A videorecording, on DVD format, disc, of an excerpt from an interview with David Rockefeller by Kathy Miller, Sept. 9, 2010 This is an excerpt from the full interview, 011.003.001. This excerpt was played at the Annual Meeting, August, 2011 Interview took place at Seal Harbor home, Ringing Point, of David Rockefeller
Description: Eight-page supplement that contains articles on Haynes Garage (Northeast Harbor), and other businesses in Maine. Date is Friday, January 13, 2012.
Description: Article in Mount Desert Island Living, Mount Desert Islander, Dec. 16, 2010, about collaborative effort to form Friends of [Mount Desert] Island History. Mentions Bill Horner, Ruth Eveland, Don Lenahan, Jack Russell. Emily Beck, Rebecca Cole-Will, Muriel Davisson, Deborah Dyer, Candy Emlen, Anne Funderburk, Tim Garrity, Meredith Hutchins, Charlotte Morrill, Robert Pyle, Paul Richardson. Photos, including "Steamship Norumbega" hard aground in Southwest Harbor. [show more]
Description: notes and list of all exhibit materials from the Society, Northeast Harbor Library and Great Harbor Museum for this exhibit in the summer of 2012
Description: A description of the James M. Parker Post, one of two national Civil War Union Veterans' organizations formed after the close of the war in 1865. The Mount Desert chapter received its national charter on April 4, 1884.
Description: Report created by Ronald Forse for Robert Gardner (golf professional of the NEHGC) with recommendations and evaluations of the Northeast Harbor Golf Course, August 17th, 2011.
Description: Tally of number of visitors summer 2011 to the Museum. Past Perfect Report of items located in Museum. Legends for interpretive signage. Old inventory. List of Toys & Games Collection. June-Aug. calendars with names of volunteers/docents. Accession tags for objects in Museum and Selectmen's Bldg. Plaque for Tiffany print
Description: Celebrate! 250: Chowder Supper & Variety Show, A Birthday Party for MDI Jan. 13, 2011.Featuring Past Luminaries & Wondrous Tales. Programs, tickets Mount Desert Islander newspaper article, "Show, dinner, celebrates 250 years," Jan. 13, 2011 Letter to editor, Mount Desert Islander, Jan. 27, 2011 from Susan Lerner, Ned Butler, Kathleen Miller thanking community for support of chowder supper. Exhibit of "250 Years, 250 Treasures" curated by Annette Carvajal. Mount Desert Islander, "John Gilley of MDI: Battle of the Wilderness; Battlefield Injury was beginning of end for Maine Bluecoat," May 26, 2011. (Last of three parts) Expedition to Explore the History of Somes Sound; Voyage aboard the M/V Asticou, July 19, 2011 (invitation and accompanying script) Invitation to Annual Holiday Party, Dec. 16, 2011 Sample event planner. [show more]
Description: This is the final installment in the 9 part series of historical notes. For details of the contents, refer to Part V, Vol. 1 images under # 010.030.8. Part V, Volume II begins on page 63 and continues on. Marked on folder as Part V b.
Description: This installment of the 9 part series of notes is dated May 30, 1977. The three scanned images show the Table of Contents and list of People, Events, Places, etc. for Part V, Volumes 1 and 2. Marked on folder as Part V a.
Description: This installment of the 9 part series of notes is a continuation of accession # 010.030.6 which has a series of images that display the contents for volumes 1 and 2. The scanned image for this part indicates at what point volume 1 is continued. Marked on folder as Part IV b.
Description: This installment of the 9 part series of notes is dated July 1, 1976. Check out the three scanned images for the Table of Contents and a list of People, Places, and Events in Part IV volumes. Marked on folder as Part IV a.
Description: This installment of the 9 part portfolio volumes of notes is a continuation of Part III, Vol. I, dated May 1, 1975. Check out the three scanned images for the table of contents and an itemized list of what is included in Part III by going to accession # 010.030.4. The scanned image for this number indicates where Vol. II begins. Marked on folder as Part III b.
Description: This installment of the 9 part portfolio volumes of notes is dated May 1, 1975. This quote from Wisdom of Solomon, Chapter 2, is written on the cover page: "For our time is a very shadow that passeth away; and after our end there is no returning". Check out the three scanned images for the table of contents and an itemized list of what is included in Part III. Marked on folder as Part III a.