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| Item | Title | Type | Subject | Creator | Publisher | Date | |
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| 4236 | Robert's Corner |
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| 4235 | SWH Library: Cannery Women. |
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Description: Oral History Interview of Cannery Women. SWH Library. 3/24/06 | |||
| 2930 | Irma Jo Gott |
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Description: Audio recording of interview with Irma Gott 4-19-94, conducted by the Southwest Harbor Oral History Society at the Library in 1994. An additional copy of this interview is in the Southwest Harbor Library collections. | |||
| 4238 | MDIHS. Dairy Farm |
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| 19346 | George Ledyard Stebbins |
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Description: Collection consists of three boxes of archival files donated by the Seal Harbor Library pertaining to the history of Seal Harbor village and Acadia National Park. An itemized summary of each boxes' contents is enclosed in each box. Essay witten by Anne Stebbins Fuderburk, gand-daughter of George Ledyard Stebbins, in gratefull memory of a gentel man who quietly did so much for the Village of Seal Harbor and the Island of Mt. Desert 5/4/05. This essay covers a brief history of his life from where he was born, his helping secure land which would later become Acadia National Park, his romance with Edith Alden Candler, connections to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to his passing in 1950. [show more] | |||
| 18673 | Religion and Politics: Subjects of Lively meetings in Surry Seventy years ago. |
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Description: Article by Dr. R. L. Grindle about various persons in the town of Surry, Maine and their political views and political meetings which took place. | |||
| 18672 | Tales of the Sea, of Religion and of Temprence |
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Description: Article by Dr. R. L. Grindle about traveling on a schooner to deliver a load of lumber milled on the edge of Patten's Pond, Trips his Uncle Ben had made on various schooners, meetings of the Temprence movement. Three Copies. | |||
| 18682 | Mount Desert Dramatic Company |
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Description: Newspaper clipping from the Bar Harbor Times about the upcoming presentation of the Mount Desert Dramatic Company. Presentation will be Nick of the Woods. This is a reprint of the add which appeared back in 1880 along with a short article about dramatic socities on Mount Desert Island. | |||
| 18674 | A Sea Yarn: A Gale on the Cape Shore of Nova Scotia |
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Description: Article by Dr. R. L. Grindle about describing a storm off the shore of Nova Scotia while he was on a fishing schooner Nimrod. | |||
| 18757 | S.A.E and Champlain Society |
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Description: 1 handwritten pages Copy of document shows a short choncology of the S.A.E. and the Champlain Society from 1884-1887 as written by A.L. Rand Secretary. | ||
| 3759 | Exhibit Files: 1997, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006 |
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Description: 1997: Charles W. Eliot and John Gilley: Good Hope for Our Country. Plan of exhibit, list of artifacts & photographs, bibliography, "John Gilley and Charles W. Eliot: Good Hope for Our Country," by Jaylene B. Roths (ms.), "The Gilley Family of Mt. Desert," by William Otis Sawtelle, (ms), and other notes. 1997: From Boarding House to Grand Hotel: The Origins of Tourism on Mount Desert Island. Background notes for exhibit, list of photographs and other items. 2000: Victorian Dining on Mount Desert Island. Photographs of exhibit; artifact list; background notes. Many items loaned for exhibit; excerpts from rules of dining, how to set tables, cookbooks, etc. 2001: Stitch in Time," at Somesville Museum: Weaving, Woolen Mill, Spinning, Sewing, Quilting, 2002: "I Came to this Place: The Story of the Village of Somesville." A new permanent exhibit at the Somesville Museum. 2004: Somesville Museum. Many of same objects and info. as in 2002 exhibit, above. 2005: Somesville Museum, "Arrival of Rusticators in 1855, Their Adventures, and Stories of the Local Residents They Met." Tracy Party, poem by Theodore Winthrop. 2006: Handicrafts Exhibit, notes from Smallidge. Also notes about Winter Industries, Getting By in Winter or Hard Times, What's Here to do After Summer People go home? [show more] | ||||
| 3927 | Seaman's Journal, Brig. Adelma |
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Description: From Tremont to Baltimore, Capt. Thaddeus Somes, Dec. 17, 1863-Dec. 31, 1864 | ||||
| 4271 | Oral history: Rebecca Rhodes Stebbins |
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Description: Transcription of an interview of Rebecca Rhodes Stebbins. Also present: Anne Funderburk, Lance Funderburk. | ||||
| 2412 | Corporate book 1836-1916 |
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Description: Leather bound. Marble end papers. Notice of meeting in 1899 signed by E. Hamor | |||
| 2413 | Mount Desert Bridge Corporation: Corporation Book 1836-1916 |
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Description: Coporation Book: 1836-1916. Leatherbound. Marble end papers. Notice of meeting signed by: E Hamor. | ||||
| 2430 | Membership Application |
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Description: Application to become a member of the MDI Historical Society for 1991-92. On the back is copied a newspaper clipping titled "Federal Work at Somesville", and some general information for upcoming Historical Society events. | |||
| 2718 | Southwest Harbor History Ralph Stanley |
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Description: Taking a Step in Time, MDI Historical Society slide show with Mary Jones and Ralph Stanley on 15 historic buildings. Changes in Southwest Harbor by Ralph Stanley; (undated) may be the transcript to accompany slides; Attic Treasures sought for historical exhibit; July 1981 picture of Nelson Leland from newspaper holding Order of Eastern Star cookbook Miscellaneous newspaper articles, Route 3 corridor; McKinley Minstrel cast (1950), heirloom seeds [show more] | ||||
| 3075 | The Memorials of Acadia National Park. by Donald P. Lenehan |
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| 3076 | Hike On: Poems of Mount Desert Island by Thomas Peter Beckett |
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| 1523 | Keeper's Log of Bear Island Lighthouse, 1877-1878 |
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Description: During his tenure as lightkeeper, his family consisted of his wife, Catherine (Kimball), 4 daughters, Sarah, age 8, Ida, age 7, Augusta, age 4, and Adelma, age 2. Gives accounts of oil, wicks, and chimneys expended daily; shows time of lighting and extinguishing and length of time lighted each night, for each month. | |||
| 1552 | New Testament |
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Description: 2.5" X 3" leather-bound Inscribed EA Whitmore, Seal Harbor, Maine No date | ||||
| 2346 | Gilman High School Yearbook, 1948 |
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Description: Yearbook for the Gilman High School (Northeast Harbor) for 1948. | ||||
| 12662 | Order Book |
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Description: Cash book from old Fernald Store, Somesville. Shows amounts paid and cash on hand, by date | ||||
| 12691 | Somesville Museum Guest Book, 2014-15 |
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Description: Names and comments by visitors to the Somesville Museum, 2014-2015. Guest book used for the duration of the "Portrait of an Island" Exhbition; the story of Art and Nan Kellam and their life on Placentia Island. Black "perfect" binding. | ||||
| 12758 | Joy and Praise: A Sunday-School Song Book |
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Description: Book of hymns. Includes Index of first lines and titles and topics. Inscribed: Mrs. Lettie Rumill. |
