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You searched for: Object ID: is not emptyDate: 1980sType: Document
Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
17540Gilley: Portrait of a Bird Carver
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording
  • Object, Woodworking
  • Other, Wood carvings
  • Adams, Richard W.
  • 1981
Description:
A film on DVD about Wendell Gilley, master carver from Southwest Harbor. Title: Gilley: Portrait of a Bird Carver. A documentary story filmed during the construction of the museum built in his honor in 1981. Film by Richard W. Adams, with a 2004 update on the 25th anniversary of the Museum and the centennial of the birth of Wendell Gilley. Running time of 25 minutes.
11486Museum Bridge Plans, Somesville
  • Document, Reprographic Copy, Blueprint
  • Caivano, Harris, and Hyman
  • 1981
Description:
Drawings and plans for the Somesville bridge construction, 1981
11500Title Page Museum Bridge Somesville Maine
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • Caivano, Roc and Hyman, Harris
  • 1981
Description:
Specifications for the bow bridge at Somesville Museum.
11501Architectural Drawing for Museum Museum Bridge, Somesville Maine
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • Caivano, Roc and Hyman, Harris
  • 1981
Description:
Details for bow bridge in Somesville.
11502Architectural Drawing for Museum Bridge, Somesville, Maine
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • Caivano, Roc and Hyman, Harris
  • 1981
Description:
Details for bow bridge at Somesville Museum.
11503Museum Bridge, Somesville Maine, North Elevation dwg 2
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • Caivano, Roc and Hyman, Harris
  • 1981
Description:
Drawings for the bow bridge at Somesville Museum and Selectmen's building.
11499Museum Bridge Drawings, Somesville Maine
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • Caivano,Roc and Hyman, Harris
  • 1981
Description:
8X11" size set of the drawings and specifications for the bow bridge at Somesville. Smaller print size of 015.030.06
18741Letter from Charles to John Cushing at the Massachussets Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Charles Eliot
  • 3/18/1981
Description:
4 hand written page Copy of a letter to John Cushing about the upcomming shipment of S.A. Eliot's papers to the Massachussetts Historical Society. He talks about his hopes for these materials, the need to a valuation of the collection for tax purposes, the hope that Harvard Archives, Harvard Divinity School and the Historical Society will be able to cross refrence the collections for future researchers. There is also three pages of inventory of the boxes being sent. [show more]
18743Letter from Charles to his sisters and brothers.
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Charles Eliot
  • 3/20/1981
Description:
1 hand written page Copy of a letter to his sisters and brothers about the donation of S.A. Eliot papers to the Massachusetts Historical Society. He also addresses other papers which he is going to send to the Harvard Divinity School library. There are also notes to Ted and Cush written on the bottom of the letter.
18742Letter from Charles to Ted
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Charles Eliot
  • 3/5/1980
Description:
1 hand written page Copy of two letters to Ted. Letter discussed his need for a response from Ted to his letter of Dec 30, 1974 about the Champlain Society Papers. Charles also mentions meeting with Harvard Divinity School to see how they have organized the donated papers from 1975 & 1977. Second letter is the one from Dec 30, 1974 Two copies
18744Letter to Ted from Charles
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Charles Eliot
  • 3/26/1981
Description:
1 Hand written page Copy of a letter to Ted discussing the conversation with Harvard Divinity School on how they have archived S.A. Eliot's papers, the materials recently sent to the Massachusetts Historical Society, and what Charles is currently sorting through at the house.
18740Letter from Charles to Ted
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Charles Eliot
  • 7/27/1989
Description:
2 hand written page Copy of a letter to Ted attached to a copy of an inventory list of materials sent to Ted on 12/30/1974 and his hope that he will give the Champlain Society Materials to the Northeast Harbor Library while he is on Mount Desert Island.
11513Floor Plan for Proposed Museum
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • COA Student, Heidi Dexter
  • 1980
Description:
Floor plan for proposed museum. Not executed as drawn.
11514Drawing for Proposed Museum Building
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • COA Students, Herb Foote
  • 1980
Description:
Perspective drawing of a proposed museum building. Done by a class at COA. Not executed per the drawings.
11510Structural Detail Drawing of Proposed Museum
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • Dwight Lampher
  • 1980
Description:
Structural details for proposed museum. Not executed per drawings.
14773Letter from the MDI Historical Society to Virginia Somes Sanderson
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Other, Bridges
  • Other, Donation
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Emma Richards, Secretary, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • 1982
Description:
Letter from the MDI Historical Society to Virginia Somes Sanderson thanking Sanderson for her gift of funds for construction of an arched footbridge between two buildings of the Historical Society in Somesville.. A resolution of the Society commending Dr. Sanderson and her book, "The Living Past" is also discussed in the letter.
12147Deed Conveying Land from Emily Grindle to the MDI Historical Society
  • Document, Legal, Deed
  • Other, Land transfer
  • Other, Mount Desert Historical Society
  • Frederick Burrill, Attorney
  • 1981
Description:
Deed 1975 and letters of conveyance documenting the sale of land in Somesville, ME, from Emily Grindle to the Mount Desert Island Historical Society on April 23, 1981.
4464Dow Family Biographical Information
  • Document, List, Bibliography
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, Manset Methodist Church
  • Irene Dow Purdie
  • 1985
Description:
Two typewritten pages by Irene Dow Purdie regarding her ancestors John Ware Dow and John Wesley Dow. Both Dows had a connection to Mount Desert Island.
11511Elevation Drawings for Proposed Museum.
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • Kathie Van Dine and Abigail Goodyear
  • 1980 1980
Description:
Elevations for proposed museum. Not executed per drawings.
11512Elevation Drawings for Proposed Museum
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • Katrina Van Dine and Abigail Goodyear
  • 1980
Description:
Elevations for proposed museum. Not executed as drawn.
16419Letter Describing her Family Connection to Somesville, Maine
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Lenora Hicks Frewin
  • 1981
Description:
Photocopy of 1p. letter to Ms. Sanderson discussing family connection with Somesville, Maine.
13472Letter to Mrs. Charles Lanpher (Juanita Lanpher)
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Lucie D. Smallidge
  • 1988
Description:
Four-page handwritten letter and envelope with return address, written by Lucie Smallidge (daughter of Laura Richardson) to Mrs. Charles Lanpher (Juanita) and dated September 21, 1988; mentions going to school in Northeast Harbor and values of people in NEH when she was growing up. Mentions effort to see "Goldie"; Lucie's brothers Curley and Galen, sisters Leola and "Skoot," who was married to Don McEachern; and her grandparents Olin and Luch Richardson; her mother, Laura, and Laura's sister Lucretia. Her uncle Olin Richardson had the gas station and store in Town Hill for many years; she had another uncle named Bide Richardson. Describes Lucie's love of music and work with the elderly in nursing homes [show more]
17178Luders L-16 Lines
  • Document, Projection, Technical Drawing
  • Other, Boat & ship industry
  • Other, Boats
  • Luders Marine Construction Company, Stamford, Conn.
  • Nov. 29, 1983
4468Genealogical Timelines
  • Document, Chart, Family Tree
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Margaret J. Bailey
  • 1981
Description:
Two genealogical timelines: 1)Ancestors of Abraham Somes and Hannah Herrick and 2)Somes, Bailey, Herrick, Haskell, and Babson timeline.
14747Letter from McGiffert to Nelson ? Regarding New Museum Building
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Other, Museums
  • McGiffert, Cushman
  • 1981
Description:
Two page typewrittten letter discussing display requirements for a new musuem building to be build in Somesville.