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| Item | Title | Type | Subject | Creator | Publisher | Date | |
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| 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 | ||||
| 4235 | SWH Library: Cannery Women. |
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Description: Oral History Interview of Cannery Women. SWH Library. 3/24/06 | |||
| 4236 | Robert's Corner |
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| 4238 | MDIHS. Dairy Farm |
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| 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. | |||
| 12774 | Stumps; a Story for Children |
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Description: Fictional stories for Sunday School. Inscribed "No. 87 Sound Sabbath School." | ||
| 12775 | The French Protestant |
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Description: Fictional story for Sunday School use. Inscribed "No. 7, Sound Sabbath School." | ||
| 12781 | Jessica's First Prayer |
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Description: One in a series of American Sunday-School Union publications. Inscribed Sound Sabbath School No. 12. | |||
| 12794 | The New Testament... |
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Description: Translated from Greek, with the former translations "diligently compared and revised." Daniel Kimballl inscribed on title page | |||
| 12880 | Preservation Briefs, Nos. 15-23 |
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| 13481 | The Creation & Growth of Acadia National Park |
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Description: History of the planning, design and construction of the bridges and roads of Acadia National Park. Describes the roles of key supporters such as Mrs. Charles Homans, John Steward Kennedy, George Dorr, George Stebbins, and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and of builders and managers of the projects such as Byron Candage and Charles Simpson. Many photographs and drawings of the bridges. | ||||
| 13767 | Chebacco, the Magazine of the Mount Desert Historical Society |
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Description: Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Vol. VIII, 2006-2007 Burnt Coat Harbor Light Station, Swans Island, Maine by John M. Bryan A Boy in Summer, Pretty Marsh, The 1930's by Michael McGiffert The Kellams of Placentia Island by Peter P. Blanchard III Island Poets & Poems: Lucy Bell Sellers, Louisa Newlin, Meredith Hutchins, Carl Little, Philip Heckscher August Heckscher: A Man about the World--and Mount Desert Island by Carl Little "Behold This Isle" and Other Poems by August Heckscher The Mayflower and Mount Desert Island by Ralph W. Stanley [show more] |
