Description: Copy of an article from the Bar Harbor Times August 12, 1971 about the class of 1927 holding a reunion at the Masonic Hall in Somesville. It covers some of the people who attended and notable events from the year they graduated.
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. An Analysis of Lafayette National Park by Robert Sterling Yard. This is a guide book to Lafyette National Park offering a glimpse of the mission of the Park, mountain ranges, bodies of water, habitats, Bar Harbor, history of tourism on Mount Desert Island, and the need to conserve this land. Cover is a greenishblue cardstock with silver lettering and a icture of Thunder Hole. The Title on the front of the book reas A Senic Wonderland of Ocean, Lakes, and Mountains. [show more]
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. This is a letter of sorts addressed to the "Voters, Cottagers, and Hotel Guests in the Town of Mount Desert, Present and to Come" giving those who read it a rational for the decision to ban cars. The letter is signed by: Jospeh H. Curtis Charles W. Eliot Charles H. Frazier David Greer Richard H. Harte Jerome H. Knowles William Draper Lewis John S Melcher Frank R. Ober Henry Parkman Alvah L. Reed L.A. Wilson Amos Clement Ernest B. Dane Edward K. Dunham F.H. Macomber James Ford Rhodes John D. Rockefeller William T. Sedgwick Henry Van Dyke W. H. Whitmore George F. Armold R. L. Grindle [show more]
Description: Written transcript and audio Interview Arthur & Rebecca Foote, conducted March 19, 1989 by M.L. Hughes, at the Foote home in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Part of the Southwest Harbor Public Library oral history collection, Tape #289. Written transcript and audio tape are attached to this record under Media tab. Both transcript and audio are under same accession number. Audio CD is in Archival Box #68
Description: Copy of the magazine article, from Journal of Light Construction-Eastern Edition June 1990, about the design and construction of the Somesville footbridge. The article was by Harris Hyman.
Description: A newspaper clipping from the Bar Harbor Times and Ellsworth American written about various projects and fairs over the years put on by the Someville Sewing Circle.
Description: Asticou's Island Domain, by Harald Prins and Bunny McBride. Ethnographic overview and assessment . Volume I of a two-volume history of the Wabanaki Peoples at Mount Desert Island, 1500--2000.
Description: Asticou's Island Domain, by Harald Prins and Bunny McBride. Ethnographic overview and assessment . Volume 2 of a two-volume history of the Wabanaki Peoples at Mount Desert Island, 1500--2000.
Description: Atlas of Hancock County. Compiled and published under the direction of Geo. N. Colby by S.F. Colby & Co. Drawn from official plans, U.S. Coast Survey Charts, and actual surverys by H.E. Halfpenny & J.H. Stuart Appears to be a modern reprint.
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. Photocopy of the reprint from the Bar Harbor Life, August 23, 1913. It is a lenghty poem on the debate and those who spoke at the meeting about the automobile.
Description: Photograph of Baker Island lighthouse built in 1828. William Gilley was the first lighthouse Keeper Previously archived as object id 012.FIC.039.2
Description: Page 13-14 of the Bangor Daily News Thursday December 10, 1953 Some of the headlines on the pages: Southwest Harbor Chamber of Commerece Marks 30th birthday at Annual Banquet Sedwick News Briefs Sullivan Briefs Sullivan woman has 89 birthday Business Woman Have Yule Party at Bar Harbor YMCA Plans Busy Activities Scheduel Comming Events Orno Family made homeless by $3,500 fire Police Chief Bans All-Night Parking on Brewer Streets Admiral Hines Named President of AIC [show more]
Description: Bound picturebook of photographs from Bar Harbor and Acadia Park. Date of publication unkown. One image labeled "Flying Squadron Mountain" dating the source to between 1929 and the 1940s.
Description: Two articles, both incomplete, celebrating the 94th and 96th birthdays of C.E. Whitmore also known as Ed Whitmore. Previoulsy archived as object Id 012.FIC.047.1