Description: Handwritten pages (2) and handwritten or typewritten fragments (3) containing information related to the history of the founding of the MDI Historical Society. The purpose of the Society is described here.
Description: Six page list of houses designed by Fred L. Savage on Mount Desert Island. Shows the date they were built, house name, and for whom it was built.
Description: Menus from Elmwood Hotel, Waterville, Maine (Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Dinner, Initiation Banquet, Phi Delta Theta, 1911, 1912 Gray's Inn, Jackson, NH (Washington's Birthday), 1920 The Hamiltons, Bermuda The St. George, Bermuda Huntoon's Tavern, Brunswick, Maine Hotel Heselton, Skowhegan (First Maine Cavalry Fourth Annual Banquet, 1894) Hotel Heselton , Skowhegan, 1894 to commemorate the initial trip on the Skowhegan and Norridgewock Electric Road, Reunion and Banquet of U.K.E. A, 1895, and Somerset Association, First Maine Cavalry, 1894 Lawrence House, Augusta ( Farewell Lunch for 76th Maine Legislature, Xmas 1913) Imperial Club, 1895 Chef A. G. Cookson was donor's great great uncle. [show more]
Description: West End Hotel dinner menu. Bar Harbor, restaurant (Sunday, August 15, 1880). 5 34" high by 4.25" wide. Opens to 8.5" in width O.M. Shaw and Son Propietors
Description: Leather Guest book from the Abraham Somes III house in Somesville, 1912-1937, includes photo of house and newsclippings, poetry and rememberances for Ruth Greenough (inn keeper) after her death.
Description: Two double-sided handwritten sheets listing officers of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society from 1931 to 1979. Lists of latter years are incomplete.
Description: Two typewritten pages by Irene Dow Purdie regarding her ancestors John Ware Dow and John Wesley Dow. Both Dows had a connection to Mount Desert Island.
Description: Two handwritten sheets with notes on the biography of Mary Ann Somes and Abraham Somes III. Also included is a description of the Somes coat of arms.