Description: Small 196 page brown paper booklet published by the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of Maine recording the one-hundred fifth annual session held October 1948 in Lewiston, Maine. Content includes list of attending members, articles of membership, installation of officers, membership reports from accross the state, committee reports, etc. Watson C. Robbins, president.
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.
Description: Unknown who wrote letter regarding recollection of Bar Harbor Fire, Fire of 1947 from Somesville, trying to get firefighters to Salisbury Cove
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
Description: 1940 Somesville Union Meeting House Summer Worship Schedule Card from July 7 to August 25. INcludes Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Tertius Van Dyke, Horace Leavitt, Samuel Eliot, Arthur Wilson, John N0ss, Perry Smith , John Whiteman
Description: 1940 Union Meeting House Summer Worship Schedule Card from July 7 to August 25. INcludes Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Tertius Van Dyke, Horace Leavitt, Samuel Eliot, Arthur Wilson, John N0ss, Perry Smith , John Whiteman
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
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
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
Description: Invitation to the Forty Hayseeders Annual Ball, February 21, 1944. The name of Mrs. Jewett appears on the invitation. Photocopy Invitation to Clam city Waybackers 3rd Annual Ball, Jan 20 1950 to Mrs. Fred Smith
Description: Tag with small wooden red, white, and blue fish attached with red string. Tag reads: Dance order, Second Annual Fishermen's Ball, April 13th, 1949 from Stanley Fisheries, Fish Lobsters Manset,Maine Telephone Southwest Harbor 22 Reverse side lists kinds of dances: Grand March, Waltz, Contra, Two Step, Quadrille, Extra, Waltz, Contra, Two Step, Quadrille, Extra, Waltz, INTERMISSION and more.
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
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
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
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.
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.
Description: A report prepared for the Mount Desert Island regional high school committee. Printed by the Bar Harbor Times. Folder 9 also contains numerous letters, memos and announcements about the decision process, 1948, for building a new island wide High School to replace regional schools.
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.
Description: Service bulletin for Services Commemorating the Organization of the Congregational Society of Mount Desert in July 1840 Held at the Meeting Housedate 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
Description: Service bulletin for Services Commemorating the Organization of the Congregational Society of Mount Desert in July 1840 Held at the Meeting Housedate 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.
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