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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
12924A Building History of Northern New England
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, New England
  • Garvin, James L.
  • University Press of New England
  • 2001
Description:
Guide to understanding old buildings, written especially for home-owners in northern New England. Discusses evolution of building technology from log buildings through framed houses, evolution of style, and evolution of key features.
17143American Barns and Covered Bridges
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Barns
  • Other, Bridges
  • Other, Buildings
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Wilfred Funk
  • Inc., 1954
17144American Yesterday
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Tools & Implements
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Wilfred Funk
  • 1956 .
Description:
Occupations of early America
12893An Age of Barns
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Barns
  • Other, Buildings
  • Sloan, Eric
  • Funk & Wagnalls
  • 1976
9100Auto War
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
Description:
Horses hitched to buckboards along street. Men sit in carriages or stand next to them. To the left are grass squares and saplings. Across street three large buildings. Middle building holds R.F. Suminsby, smaller builing next door, sign read [----] Stevens. Stamped on back with LaRue Spiker, P O Box 625, Southwest Harbor, Maine 04679. "Auto War" in red crayon
7881Bennie Davis
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, industry - Fishing
  • LaRue Spiker
  • 1965
Description:
Bennie Davis, first selectmen of Frenchboro, age 50-60 on deck of fishing boat.
2592Bicentennail Notes
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Buildings
  • 3/11/1976
Description:
History of The Old Stone Barn at the crossroads of the Crooked road and Norway Drive and surrounding area.
2702Board Balks at Smith Appointment article
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • 8/24/1995
Description:
Bar Harbor Times Article related to the appointment of Joanne Smith to Selectmen’s list. Controversy due to money management
13678Buckboard Party
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
Description:
Four horse team hitched to a buckboard outside two story cottage. Woman and man sit on driver's bench. At least ten other passengers in open buckboard. Ladies in elegant dress stand on covered porch. Vines growing up each side of porch and along front. Small peak in porch roof. Upstairs windows shuttered, center window closed.
7879Cape Cod House
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Two story full Cape Cod House with front board and batten door in the gable end.
11276Davis Wasgatt House and Richardson Homestead Photograph
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, History - Beech Hill
Description:
Newsclipping: “Davis Wasgatt House and Richardson Homestead on Beech Hill” photograph. Previously accessioned as **0692, Object Id 011.FIC.76.1
17110Early American Community Structures
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Buildings
  • Mullins, Lisa, ed.
  • The National Historical Society
  • 1987
12890Early American School Books
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Schools
  • Chandler Press
  • 1988
Description:
Contains selected pages from schoolbooks from 1785 to 1880. Examples are from spelling and geography books, among others.
17117Early Schools
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Schools
  • Kalman, Bobbie
  • Crabtree Pub. Co.
  • 1982
17118Early Schools
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Schools
  • Kalman, Bobbie
  • Crabtree Pub. Co.
  • 1982
7353Eden Town House
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
Description:
Color Photo of plaque memorializing the first Town House built in Eden. It was built in 1842 and razed in 1931. The memorial was erected in 1932. The back of the photograph is marked "This plaque is one of the few reminders that this area was once the center of Mt. Desert Island Business." -Connee Jellison
14142Emilie Clarissa Meynell Somes, 1906
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • 1906
Description:
Emilie Clarissa Meynell Somes standing on lawn of historic Abraham Somes III house (later owned by Marion and Richard Cobb). She wears long white dress with v-shaped trim on bodice, decorative black sash or scarf around neck, and small black hat.
7877Fishing piers from water
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Fishing piers and buildings from a harbor.
11305Hancock House Ellsworth
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Buildings
Description:
Newsclipping: photograph of Hancock House on Main Street in Ellsworth. Previously accessioned as **0649, Object Id 011.FIC.71.5
7387Harbor view.
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • Vessels, Ship
Description:
Looking back at city from harbor. Wide street runs through middle of photo from harborside. Two three-masted schooners in port to the right. Three church steeples rise in background above city. To the left sign above building reads, “Washburn [?] flour.” Harbor unidentified; no date.
11273Homes of James Richardson and J.G. Richardson photograph
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, History - Beech Hill
Description:
Newsclipping: “Homes of James Richardson and J.G. Richardson Homestead on Beech Hill” photograph. Previously accessioned as **0695, Object Id 011.FIC.76.1
11270Lewis Somes House photograph
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, History - Somesville
Description:
Newsclipping: “Lewis Somes House” photograph. Peviously accessioned as **0698, Object Id 011.FIC.76.1
7882Lobster traps on pier
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, industry - Fishing
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Lobster traps at the end of a long wooden pier. In the foreground shingled building. Other builings on the hill across the harbor.
7835Looking over a harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Looking over a harbor lined on each side with piers and fish houses. House on the hill overlooking the harbor. This is probably Frenchboro.
7834Looking over harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Looking over a harbor lined on each side with piers and fish houses. House on the hill overlooking the harbor. This is probably Frenchboro.