Description: This 4 x 6 colored print is part of a series depicting the burning of the Reed Store in Bass Harbor. Firemen hosing down an adjoining house.
Description: This 4 x 6 colored print is part of a series depicting the burning of the Reed Store in Bass Harbor. Firemen preparing to "fight" the fire.
Description: This 4 x 6 colored print is part of a series depicting the burning of the Reed Store in Bass Harbor. Picture of firemen cooling down the area after the fire.
Description: This 4 x 6 print is part of a series depicting the burning of the Reed Store in Bass Harbor Picutre of store totallly burned to the ground.
Description: This 4 x 6 print is part of a series depicting the burning of the Reed Store in Bass Harbor. Th picture show the store almost completely burned.
Description: This 4 x 6 colored print is part of a series depicting the burning of the Reed Store in Bass Harbor. This is a picture of the front of the store in flames.
Description: This 4 x 6 colored print is part of a series depicting the burning of the Reed Store in Bass Harbor. Fire truck and hoses in foreground and flames and black smoke over the store.
Description: Describes history of Seaside Inn and of the land, originally owned by "Bingham heirs" or John Bracy. Examples of early advertisement for the inn, menus, document showing transfer of land to James Clements by the Barings of London. Early photographs; lists of names of those who worked there; written memories. Seaside Inn opened in 1869 and was demolished in 1964.
Description: Elementary school-age level book which describes different home crafts such as clothes making, spinning, dyeing, quilting, leather goods, etc. from the early settlers' times.
Description: A film in videotape format that records the restoration of the Somes Sound School House, completed in 1998. This video needs to be watched and then further information about its contents recorded in this record. Was this created to be for sale by MDIHS? If so, what is the price? Four copies are located in the research room library.
Description: "One Summer in Seal Harbor" -- an article from the Johns Hopkins Magazine, June 1995, recounting the relationship between artist Thomas Eakins and physicist Henry Rowland. Describes Eakins' painting of a portrait of Rowland, discusses Rowland's career and describes the construction of "Craigstone", the Rowland cottage in Seal Harbor. Includes biographical information on both Rowland and Eakins.