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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
4078Savage Building Vendor Supply Catalogs and Brochures
  • Document, Advertising, Print Ad
  • Other, Advertising
  • Other, Architectural & site components
  • Other, Architectural decorations & ornaments
  • Other, Architectural elements
  • Other, Building materials
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Concrete products industry
  • Other, Hardware
  • Other, Machinery
  • Other, Paint industry
  • Other, Plumbing fixtures
Description:
Variety of Company Supply Catalogs from Fred Savage’s business, paint, stucco, drywall, plumbing, finish work etc. Folder 1; Plumbing fixtures, Trenton Potteries, Standard Sinks, Day-Ward, Cahill Iron Works, Western Metal Supply Co., Locke, Stevens & Co., J. L. Mott Folder 2: Advertising Brochure with Hotels, The DeGregoire, The Louisburg, the Malvern, The Rockaway, The Newport House, The Belmont, The St Sauveur, The New Florence Folder 3a/3b: Paint Brochures, Murphy Varnish, S.C. Johnson, Devoe, I. Lappin, Marine Tocolith, Benjamin Moore, Valspar, Patterson-Sargeant, Northern Manufacturing, Symentrex, Nico, Blanchite, Trus-Con, Koncreto, Dutch Boy, Berry Bros.,Glidden, Painting Machine Co., Edward Smith, National Lead, Nico, Trus-Con, S. C. Johnson, Patterson-Sargent, Hascall's, Monument Plaster Folder 4: Machinery, Chas. J. Jager, C.W. Hunt, Clinton Wire Cloth, Fairbanks Company, General Compressed Air House Cleaning Co., Rider-Ericcson Engine Co., Vacuum Hpuse Cleaning Co., General Electric, Hunther Bros, Quimby, Gilbert & Barker Folder 5: Lath, Decorative Iron and Concrete Reinforcement, Berger, Trussed Concrete and Steel Co.,Clinton Wire Cloth Co., Lignine Carvings, Roebling Construction, E. T. Barnum, Henry Weyand, Shreve Crump and Low, Phoenix Wire Works, Vulcan, Newport Rolling Mill Folder 6: Hardware Specialties, Lane Brothers, Buffalo Fertilizers, Union Fibre Co., Harvey Hubble, Hill Dryer [show more]
2414Savage Supply Catalogs
  • Document, Advertising, Sales Catalog
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
Description:
Variety of Company Supply Catalogs from Fred Savage’s business, paint, stucco, driwall, pluming, finish work etc.
9292Notice soliciting for building of Toll House with specifications
  • Document, Announcement
  • Other, Bridges
  • Other, Buildings
  • 8/14/1837
Description:
Notice soliciting for building of Toll House with specifications. Signed by John Black.
8873Man in some sort of uniform
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • 1930-1950
Description:
Man (may be Keith MacKenzie) wearing white shirt, pants, and cap. Standing in front of tall trees and two buildings, perhaps cabins.
9100Auto War
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
Description:
Horses hitched to buckboards along street. Men sit in carriages or stand next to them. To the left are grass squares and saplings. Across street three large buildings. Middle building holds R.F. Suminsby, smaller builing next door, sign read [----] Stevens. Stamped on back with LaRue Spiker, P O Box 625, Southwest Harbor, Maine 04679. "Auto War" in red crayon
7353Eden Town House
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
Description:
Color Photo of plaque memorializing the first Town House built in Eden. It was built in 1842 and razed in 1931. The memorial was erected in 1932. The back of the photograph is marked "This plaque is one of the few reminders that this area was once the center of Mt. Desert Island Business." -Connee Jellison
7387Harbor view.
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • Vessels, Ship
Description:
Looking back at city from harbor. Wide street runs through middle of photo from harborside. Two three-masted schooners in port to the right. Three church steeples rise in background above city. To the left sign above building reads, “Washburn [?] flour.” Harbor unidentified; no date.
7833People gathered at long tables
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
People gathered at long tables on the lawn outside a church. The lawn overlooks the harbor. Fish house and piers line the harbor. Houses are on the hill over the harbor. This is probably Frenchboro.
7834Looking over harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Looking over a harbor lined on each side with piers and fish houses. House on the hill overlooking the harbor. This is probably Frenchboro.
7835Looking over a harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Looking over a harbor lined on each side with piers and fish houses. House on the hill overlooking the harbor. This is probably Frenchboro.
7850Small pond or inlet
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Small pond or inlet. Thee story house with a Mansard roof above the water. Samller buidling closer to the shore. A bridge over a stream to the right.
7877Fishing piers from water
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Fishing piers and buildings from a harbor.
7879Cape Cod House
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Two story full Cape Cod House with front board and batten door in the gable end.
7880Loster traps and fishing grear
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, industry - Fishing
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Lobster traps and other fishing gear on the fish wharf. Lobster boat tied to the pier.
7881Bennie Davis
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, industry - Fishing
  • LaRue Spiker
  • 1965
Description:
Bennie Davis, first selectmen of Frenchboro, age 50-60 on deck of fishing boat.
7882Lobster traps on pier
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, industry - Fishing
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Lobster traps at the end of a long wooden pier. In the foreground shingled building. Other builings on the hill across the harbor.
9117Schooner Kate L. Pray
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Ships
  • People
  • Unknown
Description:
Two masted schooner at wharf in front of A.J. Whiting’s (later, 1887) Fernald’s Store (later Port-in-a-Storm Bookstore, then art gallery). Back of blacksmith shop visible on left. Small sailing dory tied to wharf. Anchor hangs from bow. Several men seated in the bow of schooner, one standing aft near main mast. Man driving wagon pulled by two white horses. Somes meadow in distance. Mark in lower left hand corner. Edges very worn. Stained and faded. Marked on back, “Schooner Kate L. Pray.” [show more]
13678Buckboard Party
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
Description:
Four horse team hitched to a buckboard outside two story cottage. Woman and man sit on driver's bench. At least ten other passengers in open buckboard. Ladies in elegant dress stand on covered porch. Vines growing up each side of porch and along front. Small peak in porch roof. Upstairs windows shuttered, center window closed.
14094Unidentified city; two three-masted schooners in port
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Ships
  • Places, Landscape
Description:
Looking back at unnamed city from harbor. Wide street runs through middle of photo from harborside. Two three-masted schooners in port to the right. Three church steeples rise in background above city. To the left sign above building reads, “Washburn [?] flour.” Marked on back, “Printed from glass negative found in F. Wiggin House, Town Hill, July 1958.”
14142Emilie Clarissa Meynell Somes, 1906
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • 1906
Description:
Emilie Clarissa Meynell Somes standing on lawn of historic Abraham Somes III house (later owned by Marion and Richard Cobb). She wears long white dress with v-shaped trim on bodice, decorative black sash or scarf around neck, and small black hat.
14143Virginia Somes Sanderson
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • 1920c.
Description:
Virginia Somes Sanderson dressed for costume party in monk's robe holding small animal, maybe rabbit, in hands. Standing near bushes and trellis. This is similar to accession #997-488-654, which is the object ID for this. These numbers all need to be fixed. (AB)
14153Virginia Somes Sanderson
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • 1920c.
Description:
Virginia Somes Sanderson standing on sidewalk near bushes and trellis. Wearing hair parted in middle and pulled back with white peasant type blouse, sleeves pulled up, black skirt, calf length, wide black belt and dark shoes. Standing with hands on hips.
14154Virginia Somes Sanderson dressed for costume party.
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • 1920c.
Description:
Virginia Somes Sanderson dressed for costume party in monk's robe holding small animal, maybe rabbit, in hands. Standing near bushes and trellis. Marked on back, “How I looked at the feté.”
14308Section of blue print showing Pretty Marsh on MDI. Handwritten notes related to plot sales.
  • Map
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Geography
  • Other, History - Pretty Marsh
  • n.d.
Description:
Section of a blue print showing Pretty Marsh on MDI. Handwritten notes related to plot sales. Marked "Property Map Town of Mount Desert Hancock County Main prepared by James W. Sewall." Shows several plots on Indian Point Road and has handwritten numbers and the names Stephen Dexter Smith to Ansel L. Manchester and Richard Smith to Stephen Dexter Smith 1871. Scale: 1 inch=500 feet
17666Season’s Greetings
  • Object, Writing, Postcard
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, History - Somesville
Description:
photo greeting card of home in snow with hand-written greeting on back: Good cheer for the holidays. May the blessing of peace be with us before another Christmas season. All good wishes from N.C. Thornton