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3524Maine Publicity Bureau Flyer
  • Document, Advertising, Advertisement
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Fire of 1947
  • Nov 1947
Description:
Biggest Job in 26 Years Faces Publicity Bureau Newspaper clippings (photocopies) of articles about the loss of Bar Harbor after the 1947 fire. There are also letters discussing how to contradict information in the news claiming the fire burned everything.
3102By-Laws of Ocean Lodge, I.O.O.F. No. 140
  • Document, Bylaws
  • Organizations
  • Other, Clubs
  • Other, History - Northeast Harbor
  • People
  • 10/13/1942
Description:
small orange booklet with by-laws of the Ocean Lodge, Odd Fellows No. 140 includes fees and dues and memberships
17481Regional Island High School formation papers
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Other, Education
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Schools
  • 1/1/1949
Description:
Miscellaneous papers related to the formation of the MDI Regional High School from 1948 - 1949. Includes surveys, letters to the editor, letters to Rockefeller, pta minutes, general correspondence
16598Letter, from Robert W. Patterson to Joan Fitzgerald, November 20, 1970, House for Mr. Desmond Fitzgerald, Somes Sound, Mount Desert, Maine, 1948
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Other, Architectural & site components
  • Other, Architectural drawings
  • Patterson, R.W., SR
  • 1948
Description:
Copy of letter from Robert W. Patterson to Miss Joan Fizgerald, November 20, 1970, related to the plans that had been developed but not executed for a house for her father, Mr. Desmond Fitzgerald, in 1948.
16599Letter from Joan Fitzgerald to Robert Patterson, November 15, 1970, House for Mr. Desmond Fitzgerald, Somes Sound, Mount Desert, Maine, 1948
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Other, Architectural & site components
  • Other, Architectural drawings
  • Patterson, R.W., SR
  • 1948
Description:
Letter, handwritten ink on paper, two pages, from Joan Fitzgerald to Robert W. Patterson, related to plans for a House for Mr. Desmond Fitzgerald, Somes Sound, Mount Desert, Maine, 1948
12594Robert W. Patterson Letter regarding 1947 Fire
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Other, Brown, Arthur Flower shop
  • Other, Fire of 1947
  • Other, Morrison Farm
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Outing Club
  • 1947
Description:
Letter of Nov. 5 1947 from Robert W. Patterson to his mother, Jane A. Patterson, describing the fire of October 1947 in detail. Includes copy of news article describing work for reconstruction. Has been annotated with footnotes explaining to whom he is referring.
12365Letter to Maine State Publicity Bureau
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Bar Harbor Fire
  • Other, Fire of 1947
  • Nov 6, 1947
Description:
Letter to Guy Butler from W.H. Ballard and short response. Suggestions of ways to counteract bad publicity indicating that the whole state, MDI, Bar Harbor have been destroyed by the fire of 47
3781Letter to Mrs. Williams
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Bar Harbor Fire
  • Other, Fire fighters
  • Other, Fire of 1947
  • Other, Salisbury Cove
  • Other, Somesville
  • 1947
Description:
Unknown who wrote letter regarding recollection of Bar Harbor Fire, Fire of 1947 from Somesville, trying to get firefighters to Salisbury Cove
16476Letters Pertaining to Somes Genealogy
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Mary D Reeland[sp?] and A.C. Milliken
  • 10/26/1943
Description:
Two letters pertaining to Somes genealogy. One letter mentions sources used to locate Somes genealogical information.
12325Minutes of Meetings of Ocean Lodge #140 I.O.O.F.
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Organizations
  • Other, Clubs
  • Other, History - Northeast Harbor
  • People
  • 1941
Description:
Black ledger with I.O.O.F. Minute Book and Symbol embossed on cover. Includes record of minutes of Ocean Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows from 1941 - 1945
12326Minutes of Meetings of Ocean Lodge #140 I.O.O.F.
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Organizations
  • Other, Clubs
  • Other, History - Northeast Harbor
  • People
  • 1946
Description:
Black ledger with I.O.O.F. Minute Book and Symbol embossed on cover. Includes record of minutes of Ocean Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows from 1946 - 1950
16623Howard J. Crafts' Wood shop Accounting Ledger
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Other, Business
  • Other, History - Southwest Harbor
  • People
  • 1949
Description:
Unbound ledger with accounts and “self-employment questionaire” forms and applications for the Navy as servicemen’s readustment allowance after WWII. Includes forms and business accounts and earnings 1946 - 1949
17160Letter of estimate of cost to Fred Smith (1946) from plumbing company
  • Document, Financial, Sales Record, Invoice
  • Other, Contract laborers
  • Other, Plumbers
  • Other, Plumbing systems
  • 1946
Description:
Letter of estimate of cost to Fred Smith (1946) from Modern Plumbing for Modern Homes - Ernest L. Young - Ellsworth, Maine, for new toilet and lavatory.
9198Certificates of Birth of Grace Sample and La Rue Spiker
  • Document, Government, Birth Record, Birth Certificate
  • Other, Births
  • State of Illinois
  • 8/20/1942
Description:
Two certified copies of record of birth for Grace H. Sample, mother of LaRue Spiker, and of LaRue Spiker. Part of LaRue Spiker Collection Previously archived as object id 012.FIC.067.5
3832Sale of property to Harriet S. Sanderson
  • Document, Legal, Deed
  • Other, Estates
  • Sep 8, 1941
Description:
Sale for $1.00 1/2 of the interest in unidentified real estate in Hancock County by Harriet S. Sanderson Notes on original from 1982. Original and photocopy
13708Guestbook
  • Document, Log
  • Organizations
  • Other, Clubs
  • 11/22/1947
Description:
Black leatherbound guestbook kept by unknown individual, possibly Constance Robbins. First entry is Eugene Robbins. Notes regarding gifts to host/hostess in back of the book.
13110Scrapbook, newspaper clippings about 1947 Bar Harbor Fire
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Scrapbook
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, 1947
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • 1948
Description:
A green faux leather scrapbook that includes many clippings from the Bar Harbor Times about the 1947 Fire on Mount Desert island. The original owner of the scrapbook is unknown. Many of the pages in the scrapbook are empty. Clippings are affixed to pages with glue. Also includes program for 1948 Vaudeville show and nine pages from Time magazine, Nov. 28, 1949. Contents of the scrapbook have not been scanned.
17679Information card for the U.S.S. Missouri visit to Bar Harbor
  • Document, Memorabilia, Commemorative, Commemorative Card
  • Other, History - Bar Harbor
  • Other, Maritime
  • Other, Transportation - water
  • 1946
Description:
Card with photograph of the U.S.S. Missouri launched January 29, 1944 Commissioned June 11, 1944 Visited Bar Harbor in August of 1946 Connie Jellison went on board for a tour
12849Busy Bee’s Record
  • Document, Minutes
  • Organizations
  • Other, Clubs
  • Other, History - Mount Desert
  • Other, Women's History
  • 2/24/1942
Description:
Brown Compositions lined notebook with circle and open book design on cover.Property of Busy Bee’s :records of weekly meetings from 1942-Jan. 1948 Hand -written in ink.
4642Minutes of Literary Club
  • Document, Minutes
  • Other, Friday Club
  • Other, Literary Circle
  • 1949
Description:
Minutes of the Southwest Harbor Literary Club 1949, handwritten Had a waiting list to join Discussions on railroads, Luther Burbank, botanist and horticulturalist; opera
7745Typed excerpt of 'Along These Streets' by Struthers Burt, published 1942
  • Document, Note
  • Other, Writers
  • 1942
Description:
Typed excerpt of 'Along These Streets' by Struthers Burt, published 1942. Research by LaRue Spiker for her article on Philadelphia. 2 pages. Previously accessioned as 1946, object Id 2001.1946
13868Fontaine Leval: A French Settlement on the Maine Coast, 1791
  • Document, Pamphlet
  • Other, French settlements
  • Other, Trenton
  • Childs, Frances Sergeant
  • American Antiquarian Society
  • 1942
Description:
Madame Bacler de Leval, a French woman, efforts to establish a settlement for French refugees in the present Tremont area in 1792, This pamphlet summarizes those efforts as includes her diary (and other writings) in French. There are also handwritten notes in French, and a postcard from the donor, which are in a small envelope.
13667Mout Desert Deer Past and Present
  • Document, Pamphlet
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Conservation
  • Other, Mount Desert Deer
  • 1944
Description:
Mount Desert Deer Past and Present, 1944. By Lawrie Holmes of the American Wildlife Institute. 36 pages, including “sources of information”. Previously archived as 016.FIC.001.24
13442The 100th Anniversary Congregational Society of Mount Desert
  • Document, Program
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • 7/21/1940
Description:
Service bulletin for Services Commemorating the Organization of the Congregational Society of Mount Desert in July 1840 Held at the Meeting House date when 15 page Sermon / historical address was given by Rev. Horace H. Leavitt, D.D. on the history of the Somesville Union Meeting House, U.C.C. coloring in cover illustration
13443The 100th Anniversary Congregational Society of Mount Desert
  • Document, Program
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • 7/21/1940
Description:
Service bulletin for Services Commemorating the Organization of the Congregational Society of Mount Desert in July 1840 Held at the Meeting House date when 15 page Sermon / historical address was given by Rev. Horace H. Leavitt, D.D. on the history of the Somesville Union Meeting House, U.C.C.