Description: Gift of Northeast Harbor Library (duplicates) Known as the Red Book, Directory and Hand Book of Northeast Harbor, Seal Harbor, Mount Desert and Adjacent Islands
Description: Bangor Daily News, Oct. 24, 1947: "Thousands Flee as Raging Blaze Sweeps Bar Harbor." Bangor Daily News, Oct. 25-26, 1947: "Ellsworth Scouts Aid in Disaster," "U.of M. Students Aid in Fighting Flames," " 40 Bangor Jaycees Fight Forest Fires," "Fires Ravage Maine Towns," "$10,000,000 Loss at Bar Harbor; Maine Still Fights many Fires," and photo. of Faith and Caroline Olsen, evacuees separated from relatives. Photo, elderly evacuee Dorothy Hodgkins consoled by Grace Hodgkins, n.d. Bangor Daily News, Oct. 24, 1947: "Trail of Ruin is Left by Forest." Bangor Daily News, Oct. 25-26, 1947: Photo., Mrs. E.T. Johnson; JImmy Nolan and younger brother. Bar Harbor Times, July 9, 1964: "Mount Desert Island's Worst Disaster." "The Fire of '47," Supplement to the Bar Harbor Times, Oct. and Aug. 1987 Misc. notes and postcards to Ballard. [show more]
Description: News story about part of a hs reunion story (Somesville High?) with names of those present in July 1977. Previously archived as 011.FIC.71.6
Description: Series of pamphlets, one for each named architect, inserted into red folder. Architects: Parris, Alexander Peabody and Stearns Romer, Colonel Wolfgang William Kent, Rockwell Chamberlain, Calvin Kimball, John Jr. Keely, Patrick C. Kilham, Hopkins & Greeley Lawrence, Ellis F. Longfellow, William Pitt Preble Rand, James H. Stanley, Freeman A. Wheelwright, Edmund M. Harrison, Wallace K. Dunton, Ebenezer Lord, Thomas M. Mullett Alfred B. Bassford, Asher B. Grain, Peter Sr. Also contains a Preliminary Historical Checklist of Landscape Architects in Maine by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. [show more]
Description: Includes a History of Maine License Plates. No date given. Famous Maine-made automobiles include the Stanley steamer, Electromobile (made by Belknap Motor Co., Portland), and others.
Description: Selections from Caesar's Civil War, the Story of the Argonauts with a view to improving students' working vocabulary and principles of grammar. Includes a Grammatical Appendix and a Vocabulary section as well as notes throughout the text. Illlustrated. Inside front cover: John W. Somes, 4 Eaton Cottage, Andover, Mass.
Description: A play ("dialogue" is the word used by the author ) about drunkeness and redemption. Appears to have been written by Allen Somes. Three scenes, handwritten on 3 pages. A note on the back of the second page asks a Mr. Higgins to take one of the roles and to come to rehearsal on a Friday evening. If Higgins cannot take the role, he is asked to pass the script to Bloomfield. No date is given.
Description: Audio recording of interviews of 4 MDI residents, Cora Fernald, Addie Smith, Morris Somes, and Danny Kane.conducted by Pamela Dean. Dates and places of interviews are not stated. Interviews appear to have been conducted individually but recorded on the same media. Interviewer sounds like Pamela Dean but that has not been verified.
Description: America - Her Grandeur and Her Beauty. “Coast of Maine”. Part eight of a series “presenting the beauty and grandeur of nature in America to the veiw of man.” Published by “Union Book and Publishing Company Publishers”. Sold by subscription only. Black and white photographs; 12" x 14"