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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
1470Annual Meeting of the Garden Club of America
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
  • Other, Gardens
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Places, Landscape
  • 1934
Description:
Yellow bound yearbook program with pencil reading Garden Club of Mt. Desert. Cover has black and white photograph of a sailboat in the Sound and reads: Annual Meeting of the Garden Club of America July 11,12,13, 1934 Garden Club of Mt. Desert Included several other items to follow Also 2 newspaper clippings that confirmed these items belonged to Mrs.Joseph W.Wilshire of Wilshire Farm of GreenwichCT
1532Sieur de Monts National Monument and its Historical Associations
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Gardens
  • Other, Sieur de Monts National Monument
  • Places, Landscape
  • Dept. of the Interior
  • Wild Gardens of Acadia
  • 1917
Description:
George Buckham Dorr is given at the "custodian". The essay includes black and white photographs and describes Sieru de Monts National Monument, which is not "a purchase by the government" but a "gift from citizens." Photocopy
2067Article on Beatrix Ferrand April 1985
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Other, Gardens
  • People
  • Places, Landscape
  • 1985
Description:
Magazine article from Antiques Magazine? April 1985 depicting life and work of Beatrix Ferrand. Color photographs of gardens and black and white photo of Ferrand. Text has been high-lighted in several places with a yellow marker.
2068The Eyrie Garden
  • Image, Art, Drawing
  • Other, Gardens
  • Other, History - Seal Harbor
  • Places, Landscape
  • 1934
Description:
leaflet from the Annual Meeting of the Garden Club of America July 11,12,13, 1934 Garden Club of Mt. Desert with description of the Eyrie Garden of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and illustration of the Garden.
2606Grave dissues
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Literature
  • Places, Cemetery
  • 3/16/2000
Description:
Picture and notice of slide lecture bytThomas Vining ,author of “Cemeteries of Cranberry Isles and the Towns of Mount Desert Island” Sponsered by MDI Historical Society
2939People Buried in Lexington, Mass., including Somes
  • Document, Government, Death Record, Burial Record
  • Other, Death & burial
  • Places, Cemetery
  • Mrs. Lyman Somes
Description:
Typewritten list of people buried in Lexington, Mass., apparently having a connection to Mount Desert Island.
3590The Somes Family of Somes Cemetery, Bernard, Maine
  • Document, Government, Death Record, Burial Record
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Places, Cemetery
Description:
Handwritten notes, 3 pp., transcribing inscriptions from stones in Somes Cemetery, Bernard, Maine.
3852Events 1995-1999
  • Document, Document File
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Army Nurse Corps
  • Other, Boat building
  • Other, Brookside Cemetery
  • Other, Cemeteries
  • Other, College of the Atlantic
  • Other, Gardens
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, Harbors
  • Other, Lighthouses
  • Other, National Trust for Historic Preservation
  • Other, Orchards
  • Other, Preservation
  • Other, Schools
  • Other, Seeds
  • Other, Somesville
  • Other, Tremont
  • Other, World War II
  • Places, Landscape
Description:
Summer 1995-Summer 1996 Programs: Preserving Historic Lancscapes, Elizabeth Igleheart, Maine Preservation Commission, June 1995 Brookside Cemetery Tour, Oct. 1995 Boat Building on MDI during WWII, Ralph Stanley, Nov. 1995 Genealogy Research, Connee Jellison, Jan. 1998 Preservation Workshop, Jan.- Mar. 1996 School Days in the 1850's, June 1996 Preserving an Historic Harbor (conservation easements), David MacDonald, Maine Coast Heritage Trust, Lee Patterson, Peter Blanchard, Aug. 1996 Sept. 1996-Sept. 1997 Tour of Museum and Historic Lewis Somes House for National Trust for Historic Preservation, Sept. 21, 1996 History of Brookside Cemetery for MD Elementary School 5th Graders, Oct. 29, 1996 School Days in the 1850's, Harbor House (SW Harbor), K-4th graders, Nov. 7, 1996 Women Underway, Steamships and the Army Nurse Corps, WWII, Nov. 14, 1996 Lighthouses of the Maine Coast, Ken Black, Maine Lighthouse Museum (with Great Harbor Museum), Dec. 6, 1996 MID Historical Society, 65th Birthday Party, Historic Mount Desert Tavern (home of Bill and Betty Reiff, Somesville), Dec. 19, 1996 Fun and Games in 19th c., Harbor House, K-4th grade, Jan. 1997 "Pardon my Dust," benefit performance by Kathleen Lake, COA, Jan. 26, 1997 Hands-on Archival Care, Collections' care in the home, Feb. 15, 1997 Charter Signing, meeting of Mount Desert Selectmen at James Richardson House do commemorate signing of original town charter, Feb. 16, 1997 Heirloom Seeds, Mar. 1997 House Histories (with Tremont Historical Society) using architecture and paper records, May 1997 Publication of Charles Tracy diary, lecture on works of Frederick Church, Claremont Hotel, Summer 1997 John Gilley and Charles W. Eliot, June-Oct. Special Museum Exhibit Lecture by Dr. Richard Judd on Environmental History of Maine Coast, with COA, Summer 1997 Ballard's Boats: At work and play on Mt. Desert Island, June 1997 , NEH Library. Includes panel discussion with Ralph Stanley, Richard Lunt, Paul Stubing Strawberry Festival (and book sale), July 10th History of Automobile and its effect on Mt. Desert; traveling exhibit in cooperation with COA, Fall 1997 Field Course in old house restoration, Oc. 26 and 27; Nov. 1 and 2, 1997 1999: Restoring Old Apple Trees, Stephen page, April 1999 Kitchen Gardens in early 19th c., Christie White, May 1, 1999 [show more]
3865Survey of the Cemetary (sic) on Baker Island
  • Document, Government, Death Record, Burial Record
  • Other, Baker's Island
  • Places, Cemetery
  • 1996
Description:
Identifies grave dates of Gilleys, Stanley, Manchester, Dolliver
3899Somesville Village Improvement Society-Committees
  • Document, List, Membership List
  • Other, Long Pond
  • Other, Mill Pond
  • Other, Somesville
  • Other, Traffic signs & signals
  • Other, Village Improvement Society
  • Places, Landscape
Description:
Names and members and titles of committees: Traffic & Signs, landscape, Membership, Entertainment and Fund Raising.
6206Looking over log fence and snow covered bank to ocean
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Building
  • Places, Landscape
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Looking over log fence and snow covered bank to ocean. Building in the middle ground may be Bass Harbor Light.
6207Looking over snow covered bank to ocean
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Building
  • Places, Landscape
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Looking over snow covered bank to ocean. Building in the middle ground may be Bass Harbor Light.
6302Working boat on the water
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Transportation - Maritime
  • Places, Landscape
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Working boat on the water
7496Windmill and watertower
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, machinery
  • Places, Landscape
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Copy of photograph of windmill and watertower. May be Southwest Harbor.
7497Windmill and Watertower
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, machinery
  • Places, Landscape
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Copy of photograph of windmill and watertower. May be Southwest Harbor.
7498Windmill and water tower
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, machinery
  • Places, Landscape
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Copy of photograph of windmill and watertower. May be Southwest Harbor.
7499Windmill and watertower
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, machinery
  • Places, Landscape
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Copy of photograph of windmill and watertower. May be Southwest Harbor.
7602Old Shipwreck
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, transportation - Maritime
  • Places, Landscape
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Remains of an old ship in the sand on a beach.
7603Boats moored in harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, building
  • Places, Landscape
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Boats moored in a harbor and tied to floats. Houses peaking from the trees along hillside above the harbor.
7620Lobster boat at mooring
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, transportation - Maritime
  • Places, Landscape
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Lobster boat on a mooring in a harbor.
7621Boats near a pier
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, transportation - Maritime
  • Places, Landscape
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Two boats near a pier. Houses along the shore. May be an island.
7807Looking at boats from under a tree
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, transportation - Maritime
  • Places, Landscape
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Looking at fishing boats in a harbor from undernearth an old tree, probably an oak.
7855One story house on inlet or pond
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, building
  • Places, Landscape
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
One story house with many windows on a small inlet or pond. A balance rock in the foreground.
7856Salt water inlet
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, building
  • Places, Landscape
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Salt water inlet. Small decaying pier in the foreground. Two story house with the gable facing the water.
7862Double ended boat
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Transportation - Maritime
  • Places, Landscape
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Small double ended boat tied to post on the shore of a lake. Stains on the negative.