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You searched for: Contributor: Mount Desert Island Historical SocietyDate: 1970sType: Document
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Someville Sewing Circle Meeting Minutes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Minutes
  • July 28, 1971
Someville Sewing Circle Meeting Minutes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Somesville Sewing Club meeting munites photocopied from July 28, 1971
Someville Sewing Circle Meeting Minutes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Minutes
  • 1974
Someville Sewing Circle Meeting Minutes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Somesville Sewing Club meeting munites photocopied and stapled together. These pages also contain inventory lists of items made by Circle members which are available for sale. Notes cover March-October 1974
Savage Decendants Family Trees.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Chart, Family Tree
  • Other, Mount Desert High School
  • 1974
Savage Decendants Family Trees.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Computer family trees of: William Roberts Horace Roberts Enoch Hopkins and Lucetta Savage Peter Savage and Hannah Rich John Savage These were requested by Luther Craig Phillips in 1997.
Annual Report
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
  • 8/14/1975
Annual Report
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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. Seal Harbor Village Improvement Society annual report listing the officers and directors, Financial Statement, President's Report, Comtributors- 1974, five typed quarter pages.
Rites of Spring
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1970
Rites of Spring
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Typed and annotated draft of an article written by LaRue Spiker. Rites of Spring, for the Maine digest dated 4/22/70, about skunk cabbage, fiddleheads, toads, alder catkins, apple blossoms, gull chicks, cormorants Previously archived as 013.FIC.30.8
Richard Grossinger
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1970
Richard Grossinger
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Tped and annotated draft of an article written by LaRue Spiker unknown date and publication. Richard Grossinger, brief biography about the writer written in 1970 for the Maine Times Previously archived as Object id 013.FIC.30.8
Antique Music Boxes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1970
Antique Music Boxes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Draft of an article written by LaRue Spiker for an unknown publication. No Date Antique Music Boxes, 3 pages Previously archived as 013.FIC.30.28
Movie Posters
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Advertising, Poster, Theater Poster
  • 1977
Movie Posters
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Movie posters from attic of McEachern & Hutchins hardware store in SW Harbor which use to be a movie theater. These posters are hand drawn. Poster Reads: Gary Cooper Charlton Heston Wreck of the Mary Deare, 1959-Color-G-105 min (Dennis Dever 1977)
Babson Genealogy photocopy
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Chart, Family Tree
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Finney-MacDougal, Catherine, B.A.
  • 1978
Babson Genealogy photocopy
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Photocopied pages from book, The Babson Genealogy, 1637-1977, Descendants of Isabel Babson who arrived at Salem, Massachusetts in 1637. Eaton Press, Watertown, Massachusetts, 1978.
Letter regarding genealogy of Samuel Richardson
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, History
  • Stella Richardson
  • 1978
Letter regarding genealogy of Samuel Richardson
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Letter excerpt details descendants of Samuel Richardson and Betty Giles and Samuel's second wife Lousana Garland. Samuel lived in Bridgeton, ME, and Aurora, Me.
Rough Draft of genealogies, possibly for "Downeast Ancestors"
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Chart, Family Tree
  • Wiley, Ken Lee
  • 1979
Description:
Photocopy of rough draft pages pertaining to genealogy of multiple families which Wiley prepared for publication. Richardson name appears on 5th page.
Genealogy of the Somes Family in New England
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Chart, Family Tree
  • Other, Genealogy
  • W.F.S
  • 9/1/1971
Genealogy of the Somes Family in New England
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Photocopy, single page, labeled as "Sheet 2", of genealogical chart beginning in 1673 with Timothy Somes through to 18th C. generation including Abraham Somes, first settler of Mount Desert Island.
Descendants of Abraham and Martha Somes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Chart, Family Tree
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Some, Morris H.
  • 1978
Descendants of Abraham and Martha Somes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Handwritten genealogical chart showing descendants of Abraham and Martha Somes.
Notes on Somes Genealogy
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Chart, Family Tree
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Bernard Somes Mahon
  • 1978
Notes on Somes Genealogy
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Typewritten notes (2 pp.) detailing Somes genealogy. One was written by Bernard Somes Mahon.
Letter to the Editor of the "Bar Harbor Times"
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, Somesville
  • Virginia Somes Sanderson
  • 6/14/1979
Letter to the Editor of the "Bar Harbor Times"
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Photocopy of letter correcting facts on a previously written article on the subject of the history of Somesville, Maine. The letter includes biographical information about Somesville settler, Abraham Somes as well as Virginia Somes Sanderson's line of descent.
Somes Family buried in Brookside Cemetery, Somesville, Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Government, Death Record, Burial Record
  • Other, Brookside Cemetery
  • 7/1971
Description:
Photocopy of handwritten list of Somes family members whose deaths are recorded in the Brookside Cemetery, Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine as of July 1971.
English Origin of Morris Somes of Gloucester, Mass
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Chart, Family Tree
  • Other, Biography
  • John B Threlfall
  • January, 1977
English Origin of Morris Somes of Gloucester, Mass
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Photocopy of article in "American Genealogist", Vol.53, No.1, January, 1977. Article is on Morris Somes who emigrated from England to settle in Gloucester, Mass.
Letter concerning Francis Orlando Black, aka Francis Somes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Burley Black
  • 8/8/1971
Description:
Handwritten letter from Burley Black to Dr. Sanderson concerning the relationship of Francis Orlando Black to the Somes family of Mount Desert Island.
Notes of Sanderson Pertaining to her Proposed Donation to the MDI Historical Society
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Note
  • Other, Donation
  • Other, Houses
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Virginia Somes Sanderson
  • 1976
Description:
Handwritten notes of Virginia Somes Sanderson pertaining to the handling of her proposed donation of the Somes house to the Mount Desert Island Historical Society.
Letter from MDI Historical Society to Thalia Nutting
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Mount Desert Historical Society
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • 1978
Letter from MDI Historical Society to Thalia Nutting
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Letter from Society secretary, Winfield Sprague, notifying Thalia Nutting of appointment as a charter member of the MDI HIstorical Society.
Letter from MDI Historical Society to Helen Fernald
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • 1978
Letter from MDI Historical Society to Helen Fernald
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Letter from MDI Historical Society secretary, Winfield Sprague, to Helen Fernald notifying her of her appointment as a charter member of the Society.
Letter from MDI Historical Society to Helen Fernald
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Mount Desert Historical Society
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • 1978
Letter from MDI Historical Society to Helen Fernald
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Letter from the MDI Historical Society secretary, Winfield Sprague, to Ada Leland, notifying her of her appointment as a charter member of the Society.
Letter from MDI Historical Society to Virginia Somes Sanderson
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • 1979
Description:
Letter from MDI Historical Society secretary, Chadbourne Gilpatric, to Virginia Somes Sanderson, notifying her of her election as Honorary Director of the Society.
Letter from Leland to Betsy Alexander
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Other, Newsletters
  • Nelson C. Leland
  • 1976
Letter from Leland to Betsy Alexander
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Letter from Nelson Leland to Betsy Alexander discussing problems within the MDI Historical Society in relation to the Society Newsletter. Four typewritten pages.
Report of the Newsletter Committee
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Report, Administrative Report
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Other, Newsletters
  • Newsletter Committee, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • 1976
Report of the Newsletter Committee
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Two and 1/2 handwritten pages (two original and one photocopy) of reports of the Newsletter Committee to the MDI Historical Society.