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17178Luders L-16 Lines
  • Document, Projection, Technical Drawing
  • Other, Boat & ship industry
  • Other, Boats
  • Luders Marine Construction Company, Stamford, Conn.
  • Nov. 29, 1983
17187Mount Desert: An Informal History
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Mount Desert
  • Hansen, Gunnar, ed.
  • Town of Mount Desert
  • Maine, 1989
9097Somes Memorial Bridge
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Building
  • Structures, Transportation, Bridge
  • Bangor Daily News
  • c 1980s
Description:
Thaddeus Shepley Somes Memorial Bridge in Somesville. Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen’s Building Museum to the left. Winter scene, ice on stream. 2 copies (a&b)
6723Parade Float
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Community Events
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • c 1980s
Description:
Parade float for Mt. Desert Island Historical Society passing Main street stores. Bango and fiddle player (Ralph Stanley) in 19th century costume on end of float decorated in red, white, and blue. Women in costume in back of float with spining wheel and Museum sign. Float pulled by red truck. Crowd watches from the sidewalk.
7089Parade Float
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Community Events
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • c 1980s
Description:
Parade float for Mt. Desert Island Historical Society passing Main street stores. Bango and fiddle player (Ralph Stanley) in 19th century costume on end of float. Women in costume in back of float with spining wheel and Museum sign. Float pulled by red truck. Crowd watches from the sidewalk. Person’s hands clapping in air.
7090Parade Float
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Community Events
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • c 1980s
Description:
Parade float for Mt. Desert Island Historical Society passing down Main Street Bar Harbor. Truck carrys Somesville Historic District sign. Crowd watches from the sidewalk.
7091Parade Float
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Community Events
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • c 1980s
Description:
Parade float for Mt. Desert Island Historical Society passign down Main Street Bar Harbor. Truck carrys Somesville Historic District sign. Crowd watches from the sidewalk.
7092Parade Float
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Community Events
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • c 1980s
Description:
Parade float for Mt. Desert Island Historical Society passing down Main Street Bar Harbor. Crowd watches from the sidewalk.
7093Parade Float
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Community Events
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • c 1980s
Description:
Parade float for Mt. Desert Island Historical Society passing down Main Street Bar Harbor. Crowd watches from the sidewalk.
7589Parade Float
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Other, Community Events
  • People
  • c 1980s
Description:
Parade float for Mt. Desert Island Historical Society passing Main street stores. Bango and fiddle player (Ralph Stanley) in 19th century costume on end of float. Women in costume in back of float with spining wheel and Museum sign. Float pulled by red truck. Crowd watches from the sidewalk.
5676Mt. Desert Island Historical Museum circa 1980s
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Other, Interior
  • c 1980s
Description:
Interior of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum 1980s.Bare wood shelves, bottles across top sheves. Photographic display of Somesville and Hall quarry ships, with half hull model and brass bell.
13951Mt. Desert Island Historical Museum 1980s
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Interior
  • c 1980s
Description:
Model of three masted schooner in glass case. Interior of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum 1980s.
13952Mt. Desert Island Historical Museum 1980s
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Interior
  • c 1980s
Description:
Interior of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum 1980s.Model of square rigged ship in glass case.
13953Babson Portrait
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Interior
  • c 1980s
Description:
Interior of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum 1980s.Bare wood shelves. Various tools and small ship painting. Babson portrait to the left.
13954Gilley Clock
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Gilley Clock
  • c 1980s
Description:
Interior of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum 1980s.Bare wood shelves. Display of maritime artifacts and Gilley clock.
13955Mt. Desert Island Historical Museum 1980s Gilley Clock
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Gilley Clock
  • c 1980s
Description:
Interior of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum 1980s.Bare wood shelves. Photographic display of Cranberry Isles ships, other maritime artifacts and Gilley clock.
13956Mt. Desert Island Historical Museum 1980s Fitz Hugh Lane Picture
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Painting
  • c 1980s
Description:
Interior of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum 1980s.Bare wood shelves. Print of Fitz Hugh Lane’s “Entrance to Somes Sound” along with various tools.
13957Mt. Desert Island Historical Museum 1980s
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Interior
  • c 1980s
Description:
Interior of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum 1980s.Bare wood shelves. Photographic display of Southwest Harbor ships, with two half hull models.
14237MDI Historical Society Parade Float
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, buildings
  • People
  • c 1980s
Description:
Parade float for Mt. Desert Island Historical Society. Larger banner on end of float proclaims, “Twixt the Hills.” Bango and fiddle player in 19th century costume on end of float decorated in red, white, and blue. Women in costume in back of float with spining wheel and Museum sign. Crowd watches from the sidewalk.
14008Virginia Somes Sanderson
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Interior
  • People
  • C 1980
Description:
Virginia Somes Sanderson, age 70-80 wears glasses with dark frames, blue dress with seagulls. Seated at table inside Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen’s Building Museum. Collection of China displayed on shelf behind Sanderson. Portrait of Sarah Whiting Kittredge and William Thompson Memorial wreath on right.
18631Five articles about the Mount Desert Historical Society building a new museum.
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Board (of a nonprofit)
  • Other, Mount Desert Historical Society
  • Other, Sewing Circle
  • Structures, Civic, Library
  • August 1980 & 1985
Description:
Five articles glued to a piece of white paper. One side Society Delays Action on Museum from the Bangor Daily News August 15, 1980 about the vote to defer action on building a new museum building pending more information. Second article on the same side Historical Society Still Undecided as to Type of Building to Erect from the Ellsworth American August 21, 1980. Other side Editorial from the Bar Harbor Times August 21, 1980 about the need for a new museum. Bangor Daily 8/6/1985 Notice about the upcoming annual meeting of the Mount Desert Historical Society. Bar Harbor Times, August 21, 1980 Historical Society Urges Building Decision Soon about the need for a new museum building. Previously archived as 011.FIC.57.3 [show more]
18691Golden Age of Maine Summer Hotels Advertisement
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Golden Age of Summer Hotels
  • August 13, 1981
Description:
Clipping about an upcoming talk about the Golden Age of Maine Summer Hotels 1880-1920. Talk will cover descriptions of summer hotel life along the Maine Coast.
2813MDI's Auto War: Summer vs. Permanent Residents, 1900-1915
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Automobiles
  • Other, History
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Diana Abrell writing for Bar Harbor Times
  • 9/6/1984
Description:
Article beginning on p.17 and continued on p.32 describing the disputes on Mt. Desert Island in the early 20th century regarding the use of automobiles on the Island. Addended to the article is a poem, reprinted from Bar Harbor Life, August 23, 1913, entitled "Automobiles, The Mount Desert Town Meeting. Only initials "H.W.S." [Herbert Weir Smyth] identify the author of the poem.
17487Down East Magazine
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Other, Education
  • Other, History - Bar Harbor
  • Other, Summer Community
  • 9/1/1981
Description:
Mount Desert Island article p. 60 “When Hollywood Came to Bar Harbor” In the summer of 1917, sea goddesses frolicked on Sand Beach, the cameras rolled, and almost everyone in town turned out to watch. by Gladys O’Neil Article covers history of Turrets and the fire at COA
18621Life on Tinker Island
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Daniel Somes Tavern
  • Other, Fishing
  • Other, Kate L. Pray Schooner
  • Other, Schooners
  • Other, Somesville
  • Structures, Factory, Textile Mill, Woolen Mill
  • 8/5/1982
Description:
From the Ellsworth American August 5, 1982. This is an excerpt from the book Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast: Penobscot and blue Hill Bays. Talks about the earliest name of the island, who John Robinson was, other people who claimed the island. geneology of the Tinkers, commercial activity on Tinker Island.