Description: 12 photographic postcards showing this class of sailboat at entrance to Somes Sound, Mount Desert Island, Maine. Some of these Compact Craft, first built at Mount Desert Yact Yard, and designed by Farnum Butler, were towed 1000 miles overland for the race.
Description: Cream jug from Rock End Hotel, Northeast Harbor. Labeled "made in Germany" and E.J. Totten of Northeast Harbor on bottom. Image of the hotel on the jug.
Description: Stationery card with photograph by George Daniell, printed in 1996 by Borealis Press. Photo shows Daniell leaning back in boat with legs spread. Note says that picture was taken on Grand Manan in 1938. Studio in Trenton, ME
Description: Small notebook (4" x 6") with mottoes written in pencil, e.g., "We make our fortunes but we call them fate." Name on cover: Dora Hadley, Mount Desert, Maine. Cover has drawing of girl in hat, coat, boots, carrying a crutch and pulling a red wagon piled with furniture.
Description: The binder contains photographs of the Downeast Senior College sailing class, various local and summer people, Winter Harbor Yacht Club, Sorrento Yacht Club, many Luders sailboats, model boats at the Northeast Harbor Maritime Museum
Description: The binder contains racing records for the Luders 16, Tempest and Bullseyes sailboats for the 2005 season of the Southwest Harbor Fleet. It includes a roster of participants, racing calendar, emails, photographs of members, guests, and their boats; and newspaper articles.
Description: The binder contains photographs of Luders sailboats in the Mount Desert Island fleets of Southwest and Northeast Harbors, by name of boat. It also contains newspaper articles, race results, members' names and addresses, newsletters, emails, and the like.
Description: The binder contains photographs of Luders sailboats in the Mount Desert Island fleets of Southwest and Northeast Harbors, by name of boat. It also contains newspaper articles, race results, members' names and addresses, newsletters, emails, and the like.
Description: Drawings, arranged by groups; list of clients and projects from surviving account books, dated 1985. For complete catalog of Patterson holdings at the MDI Historical Society, search in Past Perfect. They are located in designated flat files in the archival storage area.
Description: Audio cassette tape containing oral histories provided by Danny Kane, Addie Smith (Mrs. Fred Smith), Cora Fernald, and Morris Somes. 1973-74.
Description: This postcard shows the city of Clermont-Ferrand in France. Raymond Somes writes: "Everything is fine here. You can see [illeg.] by this photo that I am in a fine town."
Description: Cora Justine Savage is the grandmother of donor Mary Jane Smith. Cora was sent to Boston to learn to sew and sewed at the Asticou. Donor wore this short black lace jacket (and a skirt) in about 1986 (see photo in 1989 Union Church, Northeast Harbor, Celebration Album).
Description: Wooden carving 6" X 8.5" of ship "Jonas," 1613. This ship carried the Jesuits to what is now Fernald Point on Somes Sound, Mount Desert Island
Object, Photographic, Photograph Holder, Photograph Case, Daguerreotype Case
Subject:
Other, Daguerreotypes
Other, Photograph cases
Creator:
unknown
Collection:
Fernald Photo Collection
Description: Cased daguerreotype of Capt. Eben L. Higgins, sea captain of Mount Desert (1807-1900). Calling card of Mrs. Lester E. Pray is enclosed in the case. Note on back of card: "Picture of Capt. Eben L. Higgins, one of the well known Sea Captains of the island in former years." Captain Higgins was the husband of Hannah D. He died on December 28, 1900, at age 92 years, 9 months, and is buried in the Hamilton Station Cemetery in Bar Harbor. [show more]
Description: A home recorded videotape of a television news segment, WLBZ-Bangor, of an interview with Jaylene Roths, EDirector of MDIHS. Date Unknown. Video is embedded in other programming and needs further work to be shared with the public or archived.
Description: A home recorded videotape of several television programs, including several hosted by Bob Vila. These Vila shows are part of a Historic Homes of America Series, probably distributed on Public Television. Those included on the tape are home in New York and Hancock Shaker Village, Massachusetts. This tape needs serious editing as it also includes other television programming that is unrelated to the historic homes series.