Description: Handwritten pages (2) and handwritten or typewritten fragments (3) containing information related to the history of the founding of the MDI Historical Society. The purpose of the Society is described here.
Description: Five handwritten pages describing the founding, incorporation, early members and officers and early meetings of the MDI Historical Society. The Society was founded in 1931. The Society was founded for the purpose of maintaining a museum in the village of Somesville to educate, inform and benefit the public. Annual meeting activity from 1931-1935 is summarized.
Description: Two copies of printed poster announcing "Somesville Day" sponsored by the Village Improvement Society and the Mount Desert Historical Society. Year not specified.
Description: Two double sided typewritten sheets containing carbon copies of letters to bidding contractors on new museum building for MDI Historical Society. Letters inform contractors that a contractor had been chosen.
Description: Six sheets containing five bids by various contractors for construction of new museum building in Somesville for the MDI Historical Society.
Description: Building Permit (one page) and Land Use Permit (one page) issued by the Town of Mount Desert, Maine, to the MDI Historical Society for construction of a new museum building in Somesville, ME.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society Building Committee
Collection:
MDI Historical Society
Date:
1981
Description: Six pages of architectural drawings for planned MDI Historical Society building at State Route 102 and Oak Hill Rd, Somesville, Maine. Drawings include Title Page with General Conditions, Floor Plan, Section, South Elevation and Elevations.
Description: Two typewritten pages describing activity of the committee in the process of considering building a new museum building. A third typewritten sheet is a fragment of a report in which advantages and disadvantages of building a new museum are stated.
Description: Letter from Mrs. Alexander to Sanderson tendering her resignation from the MDI Historical Society Newsletter Committee and explaining her discontent with the operation of this committee.
Description: Letter from Nelson Leland to Betsy Alexander discussing problems within the MDI Historical Society in relation to the Society Newsletter. Four typewritten pages.
Description: Letter from Nelson F. Goodwin to Robert Heffner May 3, 1994 about the Somesville bridge construction. The letter also includes a copy of the plans for the footbridge.
Description: Letter from Peladeau representing the Maine League of Historical Societies and Museums to Mrs. Alexander of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society commending the Society on the quality of its newsletter.
Description: Letter from MDI Historical Society secretary, Winfield Sprague, to Helen Fernald notifying her of her appointment as a charter member of the Society.
Description: Handwritten one page folder cover describing printing details of the MDI Historical Society Newsletter. Date unknown. Printing was to be done by Downeast Graphics, Ellsworth, Maine.
Ralph Stanley, President of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Collection:
MDI Historical Society
Date:
1981
Description: Handwritten letter from the MDI Historical Society thanking Virginia Somes Sanderson for her donation of funds for construction of a bridge over Somes Brook in Somesville between two MDI Historical Society buildings. Details of the bridge construction are noted in the letter.