Description: Color postcard of Eastern Yacht Club Pier. Bar Harbor ME. The back of the postcard is marked: Presented by W.H. Ballard, Southwest Harbor. July 1958. Two-decker pier. About 1880.
Description: Grammar rules with exercises. written on back page: We went down by about half past three, there was a gray headed man with him. I did not know who it was untill he spoke. I was out side of the road picking flowers, as I did not have anything else to do. I got all ready to go to S. School. Why didn't you go. Because is would not change my dress again. Mother said it was going to rain and I could not ware (sic) my gray dress.
Description: 5x6 leather photo album containing sixteen unidentified portraits. Condition of album cover, poor. Some pages at end of photo album are empty. Some photos in album are tintypes, others are studio portraits on paper. Inscription on frontispiece is Dec. 25, 1880. Photos in the album have been left in the pages as found in the collection. Each page has been scanned and given a separate object ID #
Description: Cambridge Wednesday March. 31. 1880. This evening the gentlemen named below met at 34 Grays and had a talk about the camping expedition which has been proposed by Charles Eliot. The party is to have the use of Mr. C. W. Eliot's yacht and camping outfit, and the plan is that each member of the party shall do some work in some branch of natural history or science. Charles Eliot has invited 12 person to be members of the club, and 7 of these were present this evening, as follows. [show more]
Description: A CD disc that contains four photographs from the National Archives of Burnt Coat Harbor Lighthouse and shoreline, Swans Island, Maine. This CD was purchased by John Bryan, author, and donated to MDIHS along with an article about the lighthouse written for Chebacco, Vol VIII, 2006-2007. Images are not owned by MDIHS. But, images from the National Archives may be used if provenance noted. These images are in tif format and high resolution, suitable for reproduction. [show more]
Description: List of tourists staying at the various hotels and city or state they are from, the lack of a park in Bar Harbor, list of railroad representatives staying in Bar Harbor, raising money for the Bar Harbor Libary, List of prominent people staying in Bar Harbor,
Description: Sepia photograph of Somes Sound, 1880. Background is Dog Mountain, Robinson's Mountain, and the yacht Sunshine. S.A. Eliot, William Dunbar, George Dunbar in photograph.
Description: Photograph of Champlain Society camp, July 1880. Pictured: S.A. Eliot, George Dunbar, John Wakefield Charles Eliot, William Dunbar, Ernest Lovering,
Description: 5 hand witten pages Diary of events from March 31, 1880, May 6, 1880, July 26-29, 1884 Aug 1-23, 1884. Personal diary of unknown author detalining leaving Mount Desert Island and returning to Cambridge and then the return to Camp a few days later.
Description: Black and white photo. of Green Mountain Cog Railway tracks on Cadillac Mountain. Eagle Lake in background. Sawed logs beside track. Framed.
Description: Copy of a photo of the five daughters of Seal Harbor summer resident David Dows. Comes after donated photos, donated by Anne Funderburk so presumably also donated by Mrs. Funderburk
Description: A single sheet summary of early explorers of the New England Coast 1498-1759. This sheet was found in "Charles Eliot's notes on the early explorers of the New England coast." item 005.17.19
Description: Society members posing around a tree. No names listed. Two men are standing, 11 men are seated or lying on the ground. Bowler hat rests on foot of man lying on the ground. Appears to be same as 005.17.3.