Description: Four typewritten pages of vital statistics on the families of George and Bethiah Stanley and the family of their son, Sans Stanley and grandson Sans Stanley.
Description: Gives information about the more than 400 families living in Maine in 1790, according to that year's census. At that time the District of Maine had just five counties and was part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Members of the various Indian tribes were not inclded in this census.
Description: Gives information about the more than 400 families living in Maine in 1790, according to that year's census. At that time the District of Maine had just five counties and was part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Members of the various Indian tribes were not inclded in this census.
Description: Two copies of a letter from Anne Mazlich to the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art on the subject of Louis C. Tiffany's painting "My Family in Somesville." The society is requesting a photographic copy of the painting and permission to publish the photograph. See reply dated 10 May 023.FIC.44 and further correspondence 023.FIC.45
Description: Letter from Anne Mazlich to Nancy Long of the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum on the use of a photograph of "My Family in Somesville". See 023.FIC.43-44
Description: Two letters from Anne Mazlich concerning the Tracy diary (1855). First is to Charles Pierce of the Peirpont-Morgan Library of New York City, second is to "Augie"; reply from Augie to Mazlich included. Letters discuss the possiblity of publishing the Tracy diary in the society's collection.
Description: Landscape paintersThomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, and others discovered Mt. Desert Island and inspired tourists to visit. This book examines how images and works of art inspired the artists and tourists, alike.
Description: The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings 1998, a collection of articles on subjects such as "Repairs versus Deception on Essex County Cupboards," "Cabinetmaking Practices...", and about such people as Capt. Abraham Knowlton, William Lloyd, Amzi Chapin; and places such as Worcester County, Mass.; Sterling, Mass.
Description: ...Containing a collection of new designs of carpentry and architecture which will be particularly useful to country workmen in general. Originally published in 1797
Description: Covers styles with minimal text and black and white photographs. Styles include: Spanish Colonial, Mission, Pueblo, Spanish Colonial Revival, New England Colonial, Southern Colonial. French Colonial, Dutch Colonial, Georgian, Federal, Roman Classicism, Colonial Revival, Greek Revival, Egyptian Revival, Gothic Revival, Victorian Gothic, Italian Villa, Italianate, Renaissance Revival, Second Renaissance Revival, Romanesque Revival, Victorian Romanesque, Richardsonian Romanesque, Octagon, Chateau, Second Empire Easter Stick, Western Stick, Eastlake, Shingle, Queen Anne, Sullivanesque, Beaux-Arts Clasicism, New-Classicism, Bungalow, Prairie, International, Art Deco, Art Moderne [show more]
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: Mary Bond Collection of essays published by the Bar Harbor Times from 1976 to 1986. (Updated description 04/17/2012 by Annette). Mary Bond was the wife of James Bond - the ornithologist who was the namesake for Ian Fleming's character. The Bonds lived in Pretty Marsh on the estate which is now (2012) owned by Joan Fitzgerald.