Description: Barrel shape with square top. Wooden paddles inside barrel churn the butter when handle on side is turned. Marked, “No. 4 improved” on back, and, “Joseph Breck and Sons, 51, 52, 53 No. Market Street, Boston” on front. Donor info - from John Allen Somes house.
Description: Cobbler's bench and tools, which included spools for thread, a cloth bag with scraps of newspaper, thin wooden sticks, loose square-headed nails. Many pegs have been hammered into the surface of the bench.
Description: Rusted bearing base with barnacles from being left under water. Early Hall Quarry Machinery. (Have not made since 1911's- according to Steve Haynes)
Description: Low tin bath tub with painted white over blue. Outside painted tan. Spout on side. Donor info - found in attic of A.C. Fernald’s house which was once owned by Fred Pray, Adelma Joy and John Somes.
Description: Donor info - purchased by Brandon Hart, MD (donor’s husband) in 1963 at Hill’s Antique Store in Northeast Harbor for summer cottage. Scale is believed to have been used locally.
Description: Woven brown, tan, reds, black. Bottom leather. Top trimmed with leather and leather straps. Leather handle. Lined with tan and blue striped fabric. Donor info - belonged to Capt. Nathaniel Bracket. Carried on his vessel. Later owned by his son Frederick Bracket the mail carrier of Otisfield, Maine. Used to carry mail. Marked, “FBP Otisfield, Maine”.
Description: White baby gown with lace at neck and cuffs and along the clam shell hem continuing up the left hand side to the bodice. Belonged to Jeannette Godfrey as her Christening gown
Description: Niddy Noddy, also known as Yarn Winder or reel . Belonged to John and Betsy Alexander who lived in the white farm house at the corner of Oak Hill Road and Whitney Farm Road. Kathy Cepeda is their daughter.
Description: Yarn winder or reel. Belonged to John and Betsy Alexander who lived in the white farm house at the corner of Oak Hill Road and Whitney Farm Road. Kathy Cepeda is their daughter.
Description: Framed charter of the GAR Post 105 (James Parker Post) of Mount Desert signed by the department commander and the assistant adjutant general. Charter signers: Benjamin F. Atherton, Edwin C. Parker, Nathaniel Teague, Thomas Clark, John C. Billings, Gilbert L. Lurvey, Amos S. Brown, William G. Joy, Jared R. Reed, Eben F. Burns, Llewellyn Cleaveland [sic], Joseph M. Higgins, Alfred C. Connors, Edwin M. Higgins, Albert N. Jones, Daniel Ladd, Richard B. Dodge, James Long. [show more]
Description: notes and list of all exhibit materials from the Society, Northeast Harbor Library and Great Harbor Museum for this exhibit in the summer of 2012
Document, Government, Military Record, Service Record
Description: Hand-written note about Joshua Sawyer (fought English boys at Norwood's Cove), Bery [?] Sawyer volunteered in Aroostook War, William P. Sawyer fought in "the late rebelion[sic]". Note also says that Amanda B. was born Dec. 14, 1822 and married William L. Tinker of Tinker's Isle; William P. born Sept. 23, 1820, married Nancy Newman 1855; and then the name Caleb D. is given without comment or note. Note is undated and unsigned. [show more]
Description: 1. Notes on deposits handwritten on yellow paper, 1988. 2. Two notes on cards with Nancy Harris' name about golf pros. Primarily lists names and dates. 3. Two copies of an inviation to a picnic at the Northeast Harbor Golf Club, both dated August 1983 on the back. 4. Copy of an invitation sent by William C. Trimble III and Margan D. Wheelock to a celebration of the 16th, 17th, and 17th holes at the Northeast Harbor Golf Club, dated August no year. 5. Card listing the playing charges for the Northeast Harbor Golf Club, undated. [show more]
Description: 1. Letter from Joseph G. Fogg to Nancy Harris with enclosed donation, December 4th, 1987. 2. Letter from William R. Wister, Jr. to the Northeast Harbor Golf Club with encolsed donation, December 21st, 1988.
Description: Recommendations for the Northeast Harbor Golf Course written by golf course architect Geoffrey S. Cornish. 5 pages bound in a blue portfolio.
Description: 1. Sketch of land parcels, undated. 2. Map of the Northeast Harbor Golf Course drawn in pencil, undated. 3. Two copies of a map of the Northeast Harbor Golf Course, undated.
Description: 1. Photos without explanation or date, printed two to a page for four pages. Images appear to show land before and after clearing. 2. Photo with written description on the back, "This is the tee where the golfer comes up to after the par 3 over the brook to the elevated green. Clear enough, [lh]". 3. Photo with written description on the back, "'Northeast Harbor Golf Course, originally called the Northeast Harbor Golfing Ground, and then the Northeast Harbor Golf Links. It was originally Corson's Field and Mr. Corson's cows were some of the hazards.' This photo from I.T. Moore collection, taken between 1904-1926. From Sargent Looking Towards Clubhouse". 4. Photo with written description on the back, "from School House Ledge, looking across Somes Sound. Corson farm house at left. I.T. Moore Collection, taken between 1904-1926 Where Golf Course Was Originally Located". [show more]