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You searched for: Object ID: is not emptyDate: 1970sType: Document
Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
9205Charter of the Town of Bar Harbor, Hancock Sounty, Maine
  • Document, Instructional, Instruction Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Government
  • Bar Harbor Charter Commission
  • 1979
Description:
Booklet of 32 pp. detailing powers, responsibilities and governance of the Town of Bar Harbor. Part of LaRue Spiker Collection Previously archived as Object id 012.FIC.062.1
12135Bar Harbor Festival 1974 Program
  • Document, Program
  • Bar Harbor Festival
  • 1974
Description:
Program for 1974 Bar Harbor Festival includes brief history of the festival, list of personnel, list of donors, names of performers, performances, and advertisements from local businesses.
2935Draft of Proposed Planning Board Standards for Reviewing Land Subdivisions for the Town of Bar Harbor 1974
  • Document, Draft
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Land use
  • Other, Planning Board
  • Bar Harbor Planning Board
  • 1/1974
Description:
Seven page oversized document detailing proposed land subdivision standards for the town of Bar Harbor. The document was to be reviewed at a public hearing in January, 1974. Part of LaRue Spiker Collection Previously archived as object id 012.FIC.062.3
4476Notes on Somes Genealogy
  • Document, Chart, Family Tree
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Bernard Somes Mahon
  • 1978
Description:
Typewritten notes (2 pp.) detailing Somes genealogy. One was written by Bernard Somes Mahon.
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.
16427Letter concerning Francis Orlando Black, aka Francis Somes
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Burley Black
  • 8/8/1971
Description:
Handwritten letter from Burley Black to Dr. Sanderson concerning the relationship of Francis Orlando Black to the Somes family of Mount Desert Island.
18729Letter to Charles from C.F. Dunbar
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • C. F. Dunbar
  • Jan 26, 1977
Description:
2 hand witten pages Letter from C. F. Dunbar to Charles relaying surprise that his father was associated with the Champlain Society and asking for copies of the information Charles has.
18746Letter to Peter Oliver
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Charles Eliot
  • 12/11/1974
Description:
2 handwriten pages Letter to Peter Oliver at Harvard Divinity School. Charles thanks him for helping to sort through his father's papers. He also includes an inventory of the items he is sending for archiving at the Divinity School. He is also asks for some more assistance in sorting the rest of his father's papers. Discussion on how to memorialize his father's belonging at the school.
18752Letter from Charles Eliot to his brothers and sisters
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Charles Eliot
  • 10/26/1973
Description:
17 handwrite and typed pages Letter from Charles to his brothers and sisters talking about recent archivists who have visited their father's house to help Charles group the documents belonging to their late father. He lists the various categories of documents and memorabilia and which organizations should receive them barring any objections. There is also included a list of books, lectures, sermons prepared by their father. Charles asks for input from his family on if any of them want any of this stuff or if they feel there is a better organization to be the repository of these items. [show more]
18748Letter from Charles Eliot to Peter Oliver-Leharian
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Charles Eliot
  • 12/30/1974
Description:
1 handwriten page Copy of a letter to Peter Oliver at Harvard Divinity School thanking him for helping to sort through his fathers papers and also including a list of items Charles is transvering to Havard Divinity School for archiving. Charles also ask for further assistance in storing the remainder of the items in the house and their potential to be housed at the Divinity School.
18751Letter from Charles Eliot to Ted
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Charles Eliot
  • 12/30/1974
Description:
1 handwriten page Letter from Charles to Ted telling him he is mailing him a big package of their father's documents for him to review. He asks after Ted reviews the documents he should send them to the Harvard Archives.
18749Inventory of Items Sent to Theodore Eliot
  • Document, List, Inventory
  • Charles Eliot
  • 12/30/1974
Description:
1 handwriten page A list of S.A. Eliot papers, books, and photographs sent to Theodore L. Eliot
18755Letter from Charles to Ted
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Charles Last name unknown
  • Nov 26, 1973
Description:
1 handwritten page Letter from Charles to Ted discussing documents he has enclosed for Ted to look at, Charles relates he is still sorting through their father's papers and that papers he origionally thought were Champlain Society documents were notes from Charles Eliiot.
18759Letter from Charles to Charles Dunbar
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Charles Last name unknown
  • Jan 10, 1977
Description:
2 handwritten pages Copy of a letter from Charles to Charles Dunbar. Letter relates the formation of the Champlain Society in 1880, questions about the photos he saw of the Champlain Society camping trip, questions about what field of science each member studied during these camping trips, Charles will be sending the photos on to his brother Tom for his help in identifying members.
18756Letter from Charles to Ted
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Charles Last name unknown
  • Nov 26, 1973
Description:
1 handwritten page Letter from Charles to Ted discussing the sending of more documents on the Champlain Soceity to the Northesast Harbor Library, and Charle possibly writting a history of his and Ted youth on Mount Desert Island for their heirs to enjoy later.
18754Letter the whole family from Charles W. Eliot
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Charles W. Eliot
  • 11/15/1973
Description:
1 handwritten page Letter to the whole family from Charles on where Samuel A Eliot's personal papers should be archived. He plans on sending the listed documents to various institutions Samuel Eliot was affiliated with as long as there are no objections from members of the family.
16961Mount Desert Families in 1775-76
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Families
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Edith Falt Favour
  • November 1975
Description:
Paper for Northeast Harbor Literary Club; Virginia Somes Sanderson annotations, indicating that the writer erred in several instances.
3905Babson Genealogy photocopy
  • Document, Chart, Family Tree
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Finney-MacDougal, Catherine, B.A.
  • 1978
Description:
Photocopied pages from book, The Babson Genealogy, 1637-1977, Descendants of Isabel Babson who arrived at Salem, Massachusetts in 1637. Eaton Press, Watertown, Massachusetts, 1978.
15530House of Mr. and Mrs. B.B. Hinckley, Southwest Harbor, Maine, 1977
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Other, Architectural & site components
  • Other, Architectural drawings
  • Hinckley, Benjamin B., Jr.
  • 1977
Description:
Memo for discussion with Bob Patterson, House of Mr. and Mrs. B.B. Hinckley, Southwest Harbor, Maine, 1977
16998Pretty Marsh Homesteaders and Town History
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Pretty Marsh
  • J.M. Harlow
  • 1970
Description:
Typewritten ms. by Harlow about the history of the Harlow home, known as the Smith Homestead, purchased from Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Dodge. Typewritten ms. by Edward Langley about history of Pray and Smith families of Pretty Marsh. Handwritten time line showing ownership of home. Typewritten copy of May 9, 1963 article in Bar Harbor Times, "Pretty Marsh was once Populous Farming and Fishing Community." Typewritten copy of 1897 note re antique spread, signed by Louise Denton Harlow [show more]
2504English Origin of Morris Somes of Gloucester, Mass
  • Document, Chart, Family Tree
  • Other, Biography
  • John B Threlfall
  • January, 1977
Description:
Photocopy of article in "American Genealogist", Vol.53, No.1, January, 1977. Article is on Morris Somes who emigrated from England to settle in Gloucester, Mass.
1488Election Check-up: Monitoring Registration and Voting
  • Document, Instructional, Instruction Book
  • League of Women Voters
  • 1973
Description:
How to work for equal access to the ballot and to monitor registration and voting. 34 pps.
1493Choosing the President
  • Document, Report
  • League of Women Voters, Education Fund
  • 1976
Description:
95-page booklet (including bibliography) about the parties, the voters, the preliminaries; delegate selection; national nominating conventions, and more.
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.
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.