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You searched for: Object ID: is not emptySubject: OtherSubject: Mount Desert Island Historical SocietyType: Document
Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
3588History of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, List
  • Other, History
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Other, Museums
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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.
2543Founding of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Note
  • Other, Founding
  • Other, History
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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.
3046Mount Desert Island Historical Society Brochures
  • Document, Advertising, Brochure
  • Other, Brochure
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • nd
Description:
Brochures from MDI Historical Society through the years. Brochure picture of sampler by Mrs. Lyman Somes
13762Mount Desert Island Historical President's Report
  • Document, Minutes
  • Other, Minutes
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Annual Meeting President's Report MDI Historical Society, 1960, 1961, Handwritten Minutes Board of Director's Meeting, 1961, typewritten minutes 3/5/1962
4420Mount Desert Island Historical Society Minutes
  • Document, Minutes
  • Other, Minutes
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
1976 to 1987 Board of Director's Meeting minutes, 2001-2003 Board of Director's Meeting minutes
3500Mount Desert Historical Society Artifact Adoption Catalogue
  • Document, Specification
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • 1995
Description:
Costs of items need to catalogue artifacts
4421Annual Meeting Minutes 1968-1969
  • Document, Minutes
  • Other, Minutes
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
3 pages of Annual Meeting minutes 1968 of Mount Desert Island Historical Society, 2 pages 1969
3499Campaign to Restore and Endow the Sound School House
  • Document, Note
  • Other, Fund raising
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Other, Sound School House
Description:
Bound proposals to restore Sound School House with newspaper photocopied clippings, campaign budget, map of school house, donation flyer
3741Strawberry Festival Financial Report
  • Document, Report, Administrative Report
  • Other, Festivals
  • Other, Financial disclosure
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • 1977
Description:
One page typewritten financial report of the Strawberry Festival of July 9, 1977.
14742Somesville Day
  • Document, Advertising, Poster
  • Other, Auctions
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Other, Village Improvement Society
  • Other, Walking tour
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Two copies of printed poster announcing "Somesville Day" sponsored by the Village Improvement Society and the Mount Desert Historical Society. Year not specified.
14746Letters to Bidding Contractors on New Museum Building
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Construction
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Other, Museums
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • 1981
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.
3744Bids on Construction of New Museum Building for MDI Historical Society
  • Document, Specification
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Construction
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Other, Museums
  • Various Constractors
  • 1981
Description:
Six sheets containing five bids by various contractors for construction of new museum building in Somesville for the MDI Historical Society.
14747Letter from McGiffert to Nelson ? Regarding New Museum Building
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Other, Museums
  • McGiffert, Cushman
  • 1981
Description:
Two page typewrittten letter discussing display requirements for a new musuem building to be build in Somesville.
3743Building and Land Use Permits
  • Document, Permission, Permit
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Other, Museums
  • Other, Permits
  • Town of Mount Desert, Maine
  • 1981
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.
14762Drawing for New Museum Building, Somesville, Maine
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Other, Museums
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society Building Committee
  • 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.
3746Report of Consulting Committee on New Building
  • Document, Report, Administrative Report
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Other, Museums
  • MDI Historical Society
  • 1959
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.
14763Letter from Alexander to Virginia Somes Sanderson
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Other, Newsletters
  • Betsy Alexander
  • 1977
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.
3747Report of the Newsletter Committee
  • Document, Report, Administrative Report
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Other, Newsletters
  • Newsletter Committee, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • 1976
Description:
Two and 1/2 handwritten pages (two original and one photocopy) of reports of the Newsletter Committee to the MDI Historical Society.
14764Letter from Leland to Betsy Alexander
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Other, Newsletters
  • Nelson C. Leland
  • 1976
Description:
Letter from Nelson Leland to Betsy Alexander discussing problems within the MDI Historical Society in relation to the Society Newsletter. Four typewritten pages.
18814Letter from Nelson F. Goodwin to Robert Heffner
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Bridges
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Other, Somesville
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • 1994
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.
14765Letter from Maine League of Historical Societies and Museums to MDI Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Other, Newsletters
  • Marius Peladeau
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.
14771Letter from MDI Historical Society to Helen Fernald
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • 1978
Description:
Letter from MDI Historical Society secretary, Winfield Sprague, to Helen Fernald notifying her of her appointment as a charter member of the Society.
18813Materials Supply list
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • Other, Bridges
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Other, Somesville
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • 1994
Description:
A supply list from Ellsworth Building Supplies showing the cost of materials for the Somesville Bridge.
3748Newsletter Printing Information
  • Document, Note
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Other, Newsletters
  • Mount Desert Island Historical 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.
14774Letter from Stanley to Virginia Somes Sanderson
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Other, Bridges
  • Other, Donation
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Ralph Stanley, President of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • 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.