Description: Somes Family Tree made on the back of a large 1973 wall calendar. Had wooden strip for hanging (strip missing) . 12 pages total Photocopies of the pages are also in the folder, separated from the originals by tissue. Photocopies have not been catalogued.
Description: Charles Durham, associate editor of a mobilehome magazine, is offering LaRue Spiker some work writing a number of articles for him. Only the bottom part of the letter remains - the rest has been cut off. Previously accessioned as **1891 Object Id **1891
Description: Papers related to Mt. Desert High School in Somesville. Class reunion 1980 and bill from 1948 with notes regarding local schools....Mt. Desert High School founded 1903, Addition to Mt. Desert School 1930, Hall Quarry School built 1901, Somesville School house built in 1897
Description: Large ledger from the post office in Sound, Maine,1910-1918; Names include: Nash, Heyward and Hayward,Somes, Ross, Richardson, Dickens, Gleason, Porter, Reed Tracy,Goodwin, McIssic and McKusick, Bazeley ?, Bracy, Higgins, McIntosh, Wasgatt, Grindle, Young, Murphy
Description: black scrap book with gold embossed rectangle highlighting “Photographs” on the cover (the photographs have been removed and are in Photograph Album 10
Description: scrapbook filled with miscellaneous newsclippings related to Mount Desert Island, the surrounding area, items of cultural interest and the Smith Somes and Stanley families.
Description: Scrapbook of information from Eden Maine (now Salisbury Cove) with genealogies and reproductions of newsclippings, obituaries, letters and other documents. Letter asking not to divide town of Eden. Names include: Bunker, McFarland, Lurvey, Richardson, Somes, Heath, Boynton Haynes Cemetery in West Trenton Obituary Mrs Charles Pettingill, 1907 Dates of events recorded by Nicholas Thomas, Salisbury Cove 1837-1844 Appears to be photocopies of documents [show more]
Description: Scrapbook filled with miscellaneous newsclippings related to Mount Desert Island, the surrounding area, items of cultural interest, WWII and the Smith, Somes and Stanley families.
Description: scrapbook filled with newsclippings related to WWII, Mount Desert Island and the Smith , Somes and Stanley families. Several references to Hollis Smith, believed to be the owner of the scrapbook and who was the postmaster for more than 25 years at the Mt. Desert PO in Somesville. Articles of interest: (1961) Senator Muskie speaking at the bicentennial celebration honoring Abraham Somes with a stone monument at the site where Somes landed in 1761. (1943) The Boston collier Suffolk went down presumably in a gale with its captain and all 43 crew members. Another article (unknown date) talks about a Bar Harbor man who was aboard the Battleship Maine when it was torpedoed in Havava Harbor. He survived, but that event sparked America's involvement in the war with Spain. [show more]
Description: Program for opera singer. Portrait of singer on front of program (sheet of paper folded in half to form small booklet). Woman seated in chair, wearing white peasant-style blouse with short sleeves, sort of vest over blouse, and light colored skirt. Has short dark hair, flower fastened above left ear. Back of program lists “Selected from the Repertoire of Mlle. Avec.” Probably Mlle. Gwen Avec.
Description: William Ober Family and Hannah P. Monroe Genealogy 115 page report. Prepared by Larry Wert .This researcher has a website with genealogy available:http://members.tripod.com/larry.wert
Description: Copy of Elinor, Sylvia, Jeanette, and Elaine Grindle (daughters of George Edwin Grindle) with dog Timmie at the old house in back of school house at Somes Sound.
Description: Copy of Dottie Dyer Grindle (daughter of George Edwin Grindle) on the porch steps of the Sound Schoolhouse in gown. See Photo Album #10, p.27 for what may be this copy with a different number (AB,11/06/2014)