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| Item | Title | Type | Subject | Creator | Publisher | Date | |
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| 1471 | Oral History: John Kief on dairy faming |
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Description: Oral history interview of John Kief about his family's dairy farm. | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 1681 | Clippings about WWII |
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Description: Miscellaneous newspaper clippings, mostly from Ohio newspapers and Time magazine, gathered by Virginia Somes Sanderson and put in her scrapbook (see 014.FIC.007.1). They were removed from the scrapbook because they were loose; most are undated. Folder also includes three ration books. Rehoused to Box 76 from loose FIC stack due to connection with Sanderson. 9/2020. | |||
| 2289 | Old Farmer's Almanac |
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Description: 1856,1857,1858,1860,1861,1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1871,1872,1874,1875,1877,1878,1879,1880,1882, 1913,1914 All items "adopted by Caroline Pryor" (except 1913 and 1914) per 1999 catalog records which have been replaced by this one record. The 1913 and 1914 issues were donated by Stephen Ashley (AB). | ||||
| 2308 | History of Mt. Desert |
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Description: History of Mount Desert recounted with important dates and descriptions of the events. Includes additional sections "Manners & Customs", "Population", and "The Church". In pencil is written "From Somesville + Southwest Harbor", some additional notes in pencil are made in the margins. Undated. | ||||
| 2314 | A Bright Boy |
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Description: Story about boy counting chickens and fooling Father. No date or author given. | ||||
| 2346 | Gilman High School Yearbook, 1948 |
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Description: Yearbook for the Gilman High School (Northeast Harbor) for 1948. | ||||
| 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. | ||||
| 2429 | MDI historical society receives grant to restore schoolhouse, school house gets $125,000 challenge, Restoration to begin |
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Description: Three newspaper stories photocopied onto the same page. 1. Bangor Daily News, "MDI historical society receives grant to restore schoolhouse", May 28, 1999. 2. Bar Harbor Times, "School house gets $125,000 challenge", undated. 3. Bar Harbor Times, "Restoration to begin", May 27, 1999. | |||
| 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. | |||
| 2666 | Article about Someville Sewing Circle |
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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. | ||||
| 2668 | Changes in Southwest Habor by Ralph W. Stanley |
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Description: Boating supplement to Bar Harbor Times includes articles on new Hinckley picnic boats, clean environment good for boating,directory of boat yards, new ownership up harbor in Tremont. International One-Design Sharecroppers of the Sea, article from Scribeners magazine , May 1937, photocopied | ||||
| 2682 | article about Somesville Meeting House's 100th anniversary |
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Description: Bar Harbor Times 1952 article about Somesville Meeting House celebrating 100th anniversary | ||||
| 2684 | The Hayseed |
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Description: Front page of humorous newspaper titled The Hay Seed, "published bout onct a yr. - mebbe not so offen." No date given | ||||
| 2689 | The races are on |
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Description: news photo by Kathy Suminsby of A class race in NEH Previously accessioned as 007.119 | ||||
| 2692 | Newspaper article about the renewal of A-Classing racing fleet |
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Description: Article about the renewal of the A-class racing fleet in Northeast Harbor (other copies of this exist in the collection). | ||||
| 2696 | Pretty Marsh House |
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Description: 1988 newspaper advertisements (2) for sale of Pretty Marsh House. Card for Pretty Marsh House, L.A. Stalnacke, Prop. 1930--Season opens June 15. | ||||
| 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] | ||||
| 2721 | Odd Fellows and Rebekah Newspaper Clippings |
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| 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. | |||
| 2958 | Odd Fellows and Rebekah Officer Biographical Sketches |
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Description: MDI officers of Odd Fellows and Rebekah biographical sketches | ||||
| 2959 | Odd Fellows Cadillac Mountain Memorial Services |
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| 3038 | Mount Desert Larger Parish in Maine, 1925-1950, Twenty-five Years Together |
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Description: 13-page booklet describing history of the "larger parish" formed in 1925 when churches in Seal Harbor and Northeast Harbor were without pastors at same time. John D. Rockefeller Jr. influential in establishing this concept. |
