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3355Fernald Photo Album
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Photograph Album
  • 1880-1900
Description:
leather photo album, holding approximately 50 photos. Leather cover, back and spine. Diamond-shape embossed onto front and back, also decorated with gold leaf in vine pattern, as well as embossed zig-zag design. Four white studs protrude from four corners of album on both front and back. Two metal clasps on right hand side, ivy leaf and vine design. Word “Photographs” embossed on spine of album.
4077Mt. Desert Land and Garden Preserve
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Photograph Album
Description:
Selected Photo album 5-18-08 Presentation Loan- Mt. Desert Land and Garden Preserve 2008
4278Photo Album
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Photograph Album
42801889 Photo Album
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Photograph Album
Description:
8x10 worn red velvet photo album in poor condition. Includes death notice of Holland Edmond Fernald, 5 mo., 1889, unidentified portaits of children and adults. Death notices for Marjorie Somes Fernald, 2 years, 1894. Portrait of two little girls opposite first notice- one of the children could be Marjorie 21 photos and 3 objects were found in this album. Object Id numbers correspond to the page order in which these photos and mourning cards appear. [show more]
3276Photo Album
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Photograph Album
  • Other, Photograph albums
  • late 1800’s
Description:
Photo / cabinet card album with a faded green velvet cover. On the cover is a metal design that has two flowers in the background and “ALBUM” written on a scroll across the front in woven letters. There are sixteen gold edged leaves. The green pages have a design with a curtain in the top left, flowers, and a spider web in the bottom right. Fourteen of them have space for one picture on each side and are occupied, the last two have spaces for four pictures on each side and are empty. There is a metal clasp with two small springs on it. It contains photos #999-823-3907 to 999-849-3933. Cabinet cards from P.8 to P.23 and P.28 in this album are all young men wearing similar uniform jackets and vests. A few are identified as being from Coburn Classical Institute, 1891. Coburn Classical Institute was a preparatory school in Waterville, Me. [show more]
3277Photo Album
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Photograph Album
  • Other, Photograph albums
  • 1800’s
Description:
Small photo album with wooden covers. The front is painted black, with the brown wood as a border. Within is an intricate picture of a woman standing in a pond wearing a skirt and large brimmed hat, holding a bushel of hay in her left arm. Varying shades of wood make up the image, and the lines are carved in. The back is wood with a thin black border and “NICE” printed in the middle. There are six thick, gold edged leaves with space for photos on each side. There are seven tin-type photos, #999-816-3900 to #999-822-3906. It has a brass clasp. The front cover is detached, and much of the binding is missing. [show more]
3297Newspaper clippings about Bluenose Ferry
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Scrapbook
Description:
Clippings from Yarmouth Light, Bar Harbor Times, and other memorabilia in plastic covers. Shows old Stotesbury estate on Frenchman's Bay, Bar Harbor, where landing dock constructed. Compiled by Judy Gerrish.
3298Scrapbook of clippings about Bluenose Ferry
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Scrapbook
Description:
Scrapbook with newspaper clippings about the Bluenose Ferry pasted in; very extensive; covers 47 years, compiled by Kathleen Gerrish.
1832Holmes Family Photo Album #3
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Photograph Album
Description:
Album 3 in Photo Box 55
1833Holmes Family Photo Album #2
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Photograph Album
Description:
Album 2 in Photo Box 55
1834Holmes Family Photo Album #1
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Photograph Album
  • Other, Homes Family
Description:
Album 1 in Photo Box 55
1835Photograph album: Higgins, Mayo
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Photograph Album
Description:
Red cloth-covered photograph album with metal clasp containing photos of the following families: Higgins, Moore, Mayo, Emery, Parker, Clark, Smith, Herrick, Taylor, Kimball, Lawson, Robinson. Separate photo. of Ruby Elizabeth Higgins , age 6 months, inside front cover. No design on the cloth cover.
1836Holmes Family Photo Album #5
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Photograph Album
  • Other, Hebron Academy
Description:
Album 5 in Photo Box 55
1837Holmes Family Photo Album #4
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Photograph Album
  • Other, Many other unidentified photos and a few unidentified tin type
  • Other, daguerreotypes
Description:
Album 4 in Photo Box 55
1838Photo Album
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Photograph Album
  • Other, Photographs
  • 1882
Description:
Blue velvet photo/cabinet card album with a metal clasp. On the front cover is a design of a tree with a fence in front of it. Written along the fence in gold letters is “ALBUM”. Fourteen thick leaves with spaces for two cabinet cards on each side and gold trim around the edges. Holds pictures #999-772-3856 to #999-815-3899.
1839Postcard Album owned by Diane Ballard Michael
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album
  • Ballard, W.H.
Description:
Photocopied pages; photos. on black paper; various scenes around Mt. Desert Island.
2344Hair Wreath
  • Document, Memorabilia, Hairwork Wreath
  • Other, Death
  • Other, Funerary Object
  • 1850c.
Description:
Horseshoe shaped hair wreath a memorial to Bethany Oakes Salisbury (according to Thomas Vining's work "Cemeteries of Cranberry Isles and Mount Desert Island Bethany E. Salisbury died 18 July 1886 aged 71 years, 8 months and 13 days and was the wife of Nathan Salisbury. The Oakes name may have been her maiden name and the "E." her maiden middle name initial), wife of Nathan Salisbury. Oval frame. Hair woven, tatted and braided in different colors. Small beads woven into design. [show more]
12265Scrapbook with clippings about Mount Desert, esp. Somesvlle
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Scrapbook
Description:
Scrapbook with clippings about Mount Desert Island. Numerous articles about high school basketball, the Schooner Thomas W. Lawson, and Liberace. May have belonged to Somesville Postmaster Hollis Smith.
12352Adelma Joy Records, Mount Desert Annual Reports
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Scrapbook
  • Other, Annual Reports
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, History - Mount Desert
  • Other, History - Somesville
Description:
Green Binder: Copies of Reminiscences of Somesville by Adelma F. Joy; Excerpts from The Island of Mount Desert Register 1909-1910; Annual Report of Town Officers of Mount Desert, ME 1900,1910, 1911 - 1916 and 1931
12648Grand Lodge Maine (Masons) Certificate
  • Document, Memorabilia, Commemorative, Commemorative Certificate
  • 1971
Description:
Certificate awarded to David L. Stanley. Dimensions: 14" X 18"
12837Journal and Newspaper Clippings
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Scrapbook
  • Other, World War II
  • Virginia Somes Sanderson
Description:
10" x 12" x 2" red and black scrapbook; pages are pre-numbered. Contains hand-written journal entries reflecting on the War and her personal and professional life, including number of eggs gathered each day. On each page are pasted newspaper articles (some undated) about the War and maps showing allied positions and movements; many of these obscure the journal entries and some have come loose and are in a separate folder (014.FIC.007.2). Ration stamps and ration books are also pasted in the scrapbook. On p. 42 is a (wedding?) photo. of Marion and Dick Cobb, 1942 [show more]
13109Album with photos of Dana and Bristol families
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Photograph Album
  • Other, Sailing
  • unknown
  • 1902
Description:
The album is a leather bound brown book with black pages bound and affixed into the cover. The photo album is dated February 20, 1902. This inscription is written in longhand on the first page: May B. Dana, 24 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut. The first page of photographs has two photographs labeled "24 Hillhouse Ave. at the Bicentennial" in the "Autumn of 1901".The next centerfold has 4 pictures: 24 Hillhouse Ave. ; a picture of the corner of Hillhouse Ave. and Grove Street with Bicentennial lanterns; College Street with Bicentennial Lanterns; Fayerweather and White dormitories. The next centerfold has these four photographs: Professor Rood and Papa in their gowns at the Bicentennial; Ethel Smyth; Woodbridge Hall; and Garden at 65 Inn (?) Street. The next centerfold has four family photographs from 1902: three are of "Billy" and the fourth is of "Mother". Three photographs of "Billy in the Spring of 1902 fill the next centerfold. One of the three includes "Papa" and the fourth photograph is of Billy's hook and ladder. In the next centerfold of four pictures there are two in Connecticut at Hillhouse Avenue and two at Great Head on MDI. The Great Head pictures show Jim Gardiner and group on the beach and people exploring a cave at Great Head. All these photographs are from 1902. Summer of 1902 is showcased in the next four photographs. First is of Merrill Griswold, Great Head Picnic. The next is of Polly Webster, Great Head Picnic. The third photograph is of Frank Damrosch, Dick and Sydney Sargent on top of Pemetic Mountain. The last photograph in this centerfold is of two women, one man and a child on board the "Sappho". The Summer of 1902 pictures continue in the next centerfold with these four prints: Sydney Sargent and Polly on board "The Como" (?); children on board the "Como"; Philip Sutter (?) at Otter Cliffs Picnic; and a shore scene. Three more photographs of Summer 1902 appear in the next centerfold. First is Will Marcus playing tennis. Next are people on board the "San Joy" (?); and Will Marcus. One of the photographs has been removed. The blank space is labeled "Chapin Marcus and ???". Continuing on in the scrapbook, there are four more summer 1902 photographs of Maine scenes: Jordan Pond; Long Pond; Surf on Duck Island; and Katharine D?. Turning the page shows four more 1902 summer scenes. There is another of surf on Duck Island; followed by, Dwight, Musse House and Papa, Mother and Franklin. The last two photographs of summer 1902 are of Katharine and Mrs. Hastings at Eagle Lake Picnic and Chapin Marcus on a rowboat. Then the photographs shift to Connecticut in the Autumn of 1902. The first caption is hard to read and it depicts a road with large buildings in the background. The next photo is of three women sitting on a stoop. None are identified. The next centerfold had four Farmington photographs labeled: Elizabeth Brown; Helen Smith; Hartford Country Club; Eleanor Whitney and Eunice Parish. The Farmington photographs continue with a centerfold meant to hold four pictures but only three remain from the Winter of 1903. The photo labeled Eleanor Whitney is missing. The three present ones are: View from the Red Bridge; Elizabeth Brown, Florence Brown, and Ellen Walier; Margaretta Belin (?) and Elizabeth Richmond. The Farmington Winter 1903 pictures continue with photos of young women: Charlotte Hopkins; Ruth Brainard; E. Luyeth (?), M. Barstow, C. Hopkins, R. Brainard & E. Dunham; Minnie Machall & Claudia McAlpin. More of these photographs are on the next centerfold: Marguerite Barstow; Eleanor Moffat; A. Hall, M.Belin, G. ?, H. Boies, R. Latuall, M. Dana; A Lathrop House Group. Farmington Spring 1903 photographs include these four: Agnes Hall, Helen Boies, and M. Belin; Eleanor Whitney; and two photos of "men" labeled Eleanor Whitney and Rita Howe. Spring 1903 in Farmington continues with four more photos on the next centerfold labeled: Eleanor Whitney, Rita Howe, and Louise Freeman; Luthros House; Brick House and Main House. This season and time continues to be captured in four more photos labeled: Farminton River; garden; Main Street; and Cherry Tree in Bloom. The getty and the Old Mill are seen in the next three pictures. The fourth picture on this centerfold is a large house with no label. Turn the page and Spring 1903 ends with two pictures in Farmington labeled: Louise Bigelow, Louise Parish; and Louise Freeman. The remaining 16 pictures are all labeled as Summer 1903. The first two are of a picnic on Sargent Mt. Some of the names listed are: George ?, Herbert Bochman, Polly Webster, Merrill Griswold, and Beatrice Boiee. The next four pictures are of swimming in the dress of the day. The names listed are: Dotty Wright, Polly Webster and Margaret Griswold. More island scenes are shown in the next four pictures labeled: Billy (playing on the beach); Billy and Duirdge (playing at water's edge); Leonard, Duirdge, Harry and Harriette (playing with little boats in the water); and Leonard Freeman wading. Picnic scenes continue with Dotty Wright and Margaret Griswold resting on the lawn and Merrill Griswold sitting on ledges. The next two photographs are of Jordan Pond. The last two pictures are of a picnic on Sargent Mt. in the Summer of 1903. The only person listed is Margaret Griswold. There are about 94 pictures in this album. Selected photos in this album (those related to Mt. Desert) have been scanned and accessioned. 01/21/2015 [show more]
13110Scrapbook, newspaper clippings about 1947 Bar Harbor Fire
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Scrapbook
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, 1947
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • 1948
Description:
A green faux leather scrapbook that includes many clippings from the Bar Harbor Times about the 1947 Fire on Mount Desert island. The original owner of the scrapbook is unknown. Many of the pages in the scrapbook are empty. Clippings are affixed to pages with glue. Also includes program for 1948 Vaudeville show and nine pages from Time magazine, Nov. 28, 1949. Contents of the scrapbook have not been scanned.
13506Photo Album
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Photograph Album
  • Other, Albums
  • 1800’s
Description:
Red velvet cabinet card/photo album, with “Album” written in silver metal on the cover. Size 10.25 X 8 X 2.5 There are also three inch metal plates on the edge where the missing clasp was. Sixteen leaves with space for one photo each. In the album are cabinet cards #997-863-1033 to 997-886-1056.
13821Autographs
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Autograph Album
  • Moore, Carrie Mabel
Description:
Autographs and pithy comments by mostly Mt Desert contemporaries.