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| M. R. Frost Cottage Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  M. R. Frost Cottage Northeast Harbor Library Description: Rough drawings, 17x18", of the M. R. Frost Cottage. See also Item 2513 | ||||
| GXS Collection - Books and Souvenir Booklets Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  GXS Collection - Books and Souvenir Booklets Northeast Harbor Library Description: Folder 1 Glimpses of Camden, Maine, 1904, J. R. Prescott, 116 pages. Glimpses of Camden On the Coast of Maine, 1916, John R. Prescott, 1 volume (unpaged): all illustrations. Folder 2 A Souvenir of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island, Maine, 190?, W. H. Sherman, 68 pages : chiefly illustrations. Folder 3 (not yet scanned) Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island, 1888, William Berry Lapham, 72 pages: illustrations. Folder 4 Unidentified book about Maine homes and churches in the early days, commentary about home design, coastal living, farming, and general livelihood. 32 pages missing covers. Folder 5 The Summer State of Maine, Holman D. Waldron and Harry D. Young, ca. 1893, Tourist booklet in the shape of the state of Maine; cover illustration is map of Maine, 24 pages. Folder 30 Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island, by W. B. Lapham, 1887. Folder 31 Looking at Katahdin, the artists' inspiration, booklet about exhibit at L.C. Bates Museum, 1999. Folder 32 (scan from digitalmaine.com) Maine, the sesquicentennial of statehood, exhibition in the Library of Congress, 1970-1971, booklet. Folder 33 The Maine I Remember by Sidney Urquhast, article from Vogue Magazine, August 2000. Includes a photo of Walter Damrosch (Sidney's grandfather). Folder 43 Penzance in Maine: In Old Acadia, by F. W. Shumaker, 1927. Illustrations by S. Garnett Goesle and Herbet R. Roese. Folder 47 Northeast Harbor Port Directory, 1993. Folder 50 There is only one Bar Harbor - A few of its beautiful spots, by Ernest Emery, 1902. Folder 51 Mount Desert on the coast of Maine, by Mrs. Clara Barnes Martin, 1870 (very fragile) [show more] | ||||
| GXS Collection - Hotels, Inns, Schools, Homes, Buildings Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  GXS Collection - Hotels, Inns, Schools, Homes, Buildings Northeast Harbor Library Description: Northeast Harbor Folder 12 The Rock End Hotel, booklet published by C. B. Webster & Co., Boston. undated, 16 pages, illustrations and descriptions of MDI and the hotel. Seal Harbor Folder 13 The Glen Cove, Seal Harbor, brochure about the house and surrounding area, includes map of the island, undated. Folder 14 Seaside Inn, Seal Harbor, brochure, ca. 1952; Seaside Inn, Seal Harbor, brochure, undated Folder 15 Seaside Inn Menus, 1895 Bar Harbor Folder 16 Edenbrook Motel, Bar Harbor, brochure, ca. 1962. Folder 17 Wonderview Motor Lodge, Bar Harbor, brochure, ca. 1965. Folder 18 Hotel Bar Harbor, brochure, ca. 1952. Folder 19 The Van Doren Cottage at Hulls Cove, Bar Harbor, sale brochure, undated (1914, courtesy of J. B. Dyer). Folder 20 Redwood, Bar Harbor, sketch by John Calvin Stevens, brochure, 1992. Folder 21 Lawrence House, Bar Harbor, printed copy of sketch, September 17, 1883 Mainland Maine. Folder 54 Inn at Canoe Point, brochure, 1987 Southwest Harbor Folder 55 The Island House, bed & breakfast inn on Mount Desert Island, brochure Isle au Haut Folder 56 Union Congregational Church of Isle au Haut, Maine, 1857-1957, booklet, 20 pages. Mainland Maine Folder 22 Grindstone Inn, Winter Harbor. 2 brochures: the first ca. early 1900's, the second 1952. Folder 23 Woodlawn/Black House in Ellsworth: Maine's most interesting mansion, an example of Georgian architecture preserved with original furnishings. 5 brochures. Folder 24 Gouldsboro land improvement company's Grindstone inn and lands, Winter Harbor, 1891, 38 unnumbered pages illustrations. Folder 25 Washington Normal School at Machias Maine Fred L. Savage Architect, printed copy of sketch. Folder 49 “Old Wiscasset”, booklet. Historical data compiled by William Davis Patterson, August 1931. Printed by “The Times Co.”, Bath, Maine. Folder 57 Stanwood Homestead Museum, Ellsworth, Maine. Established 1960. A living memorial to Cordelia J. Stanwood. Brochure with map of Birdsacre Sanctuary. Folder 58 Historic Lewiston: A self-guided tour of our history, architecture and culture, brochure of historic buildings and sites with map, 2001. Folder 59 It must be Maine Architectural Trail, booklet about the architecture of Maine's small towns and villages, 16 pages. [show more] | ||||
| Joy cottage: room dimensions Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Joy cottage: room dimensions Northeast Harbor Library Description: Handwritten paper containing room dimensions of Mrs. Joy's cottage. | |||
| Photos and clippings from Addie Duren Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photos and clippings from Addie Duren Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photos and assortment of clippings. 21 photographs of people, boats, structures, from Addie Duren's time, given to GCIHS by her son Ron Mountain, some with IDs written on reverse: A=Adline Bunker; B= Ernest Stanley In Service, First World War; C=Alfred Ladd passed away in first world war by a bomb. D=Addie must be going someplace. All dressed up in my Brothers clothes. E=Winfield Stanley; F=Omer Mountain In USN; G=Eliza Stanley; H=Addie Duren. Photos I-M=people no IDs (except deerhunter photo is marked 1940. Photos N-R=boats have no IDs except N (upper right corner)=First boat Raymond B. ever built. Photos of buildings S=Aid building/barn; T=GCI Church; U=Velma Teel's house in the snow. V-ZZ=Newspaper clippings: improved lobster pot design 1956, witticisms, and children' games. AA-CC= handwritten songs and a note. [show more] | |||
| GXS Collection - Maps and Blueprints Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  GXS Collection - Maps and Blueprints Northeast Harbor Library Description: Folder 6 A Map of Mount Desert Island, issued by the Mt. Desert Chamber of Commerce, 1938. Illustrations and descriptive text on verso. Folder 6a A Map of Mount Desert Island, issued by the Chamber of Commerce of Bar Harbor, Mount Desert and Southwest Harbor, 1950. Illustrations and descriptive text on verso. Folder 7 The Maine Art Museum Trail, map and brochure listing museums around Maine, 2015. Folder 8 Blueprint with first and second floor plans for George S. Talcott house at Seal Harbor, ME, Clayton B. Roath, undated. Folder 40 Map of Seal Harbor. Folder 45 (no image) Architectural Drawing: blueprints of “Cedar Cliff”, house of G. L. Stebbins, Seal Harbor, Maine (very fragile). [show more] | ||||
| Old view of Cranberry Road Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Old view of Cranberry Road Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Enlarged reprint of an old view of Cranberry Road (perhaps a postcard view) with a mask identifying buildings along the road. Probably identified 1982 or later by someone who knew Tud Bunker (Doc Haydock?). | |||
| Houses on GCI Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Houses on GCI Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A= Postcard photo of Old Stanley home (now Rome/Glazer house) with note: "Nettie Stanley Residents" (sic) Shows the old store to the left, rear of house. B= Birlem fish house on the Pool. C= Town dock and Birlem fish house and little bait house. D= Postcard photo of GCI Post Office (orig photo was by J.G. Towns, Holbrook, MA). E= Bunker dock in the Pool with workers. F= Evergreen trees at dawn with caption "Just a dawn." G= Photo of interior of a home. H= Christmas card photo of Nativity scene an sleigh with reindeer with note that ceramics were made for Florence and Herbert Towns. [show more] | |||
| Glass globe light fixture Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Glass globe light fixture Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Light fixture. Glass globe from donor's kitchen ceiling light with connections and cap. White glass with two blue lines and pale blue band between them; brass base is painted beige. | |||
| Shoe remnants discovered in Pasonage crawlspace 2013 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Shoe remnants discovered in Pasonage crawlspace 2013 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Shoes. A collection of the remains of late 19th-century leather shoes discovered in the kitchen crawlspace during the 2013 remodeling of the Great Cranberry Congregational Church parsonage house (177 Cranberry Road). Twenty soles or pieces of soles and two heel uppers with soles missing; remains of nine high boots with eyelets (some brass eyelets in-situ); and twenty leather shoe scraps. All shoe remains are leather, all soles are double- or single- row wood-pegged. [show more] | |||
| Hamor House sketch Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hamor House sketch Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Drawing by S.G. Easter or Caster? pencil sketch of the Hamor Tea House; some water staining on the edges. Painting removed from original frame (a glass pane with metal rosettes securing it to a wood board back). Original sketch stored separately; scanned print of the drawing is in frame. | |||
| The Old Homestead, poem Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  The Old Homestead, poem Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: The Old Homestead, a poem by E.T. Preble., reminisces about the Preble house on GCI and all the lives now past. The author of the poem is most likely Elmenia Thompson Spurling, b. 19 Aug 1840, who married first Ezra Carroll, then William Henry Preble. Elmenia had four children by Preble, one being Abby Lizzie Preble, b. 25 Sep 1865, d. 24 Dec 1901 in Chicago. (Statement at bottom of poem connects author to GCI Preble house.) | |||
| Postcard photo of houses Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Postcard photo of houses Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Postcard photos (A) a house on Islesford with message on reverse to Frances (Marr?) dated 1918, and (B) an unknown house with two people on porch (no message). | |||
| Archaeological fragments recovered at Macfarlan (Preble) house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Archaeological fragments recovered at Macfarlan (Preble) house Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Archaeological fragments. Collection of ceramic sherds; white clay pipestem fragments; doll parts, and small finds. Collection of artifacts recovered by donor 1970s-1990s from his property - the historic William Pitt Preble house built ca. 1827. Items donor recovered outside behind the kitchen include sherds of brown, green, purple, red, and blue underglaze printed wares (one "Indian Tomb" pattern (ca. 1830)). Some printed ware sherds with scalloped and some with smooth edges, most are of buff paste and white on reverse. Blue, green, and white edged earthenwares. One sherd underglaze blue, sponge or splatter pattern. One sherd blue/grey stoneware. Four white clay pipe stem fragments measured by donor 2013/2014 and remeasured 2015. Doll's arm marked 'Germany' = 0.093". Small finds: larger doll arm; blue cut glass bead, pocket watch key, tiny wood button, fragment of small metal collar, fragment of what may be a bone toothbrush head. (See also 2017.386.2161 for research materials.) [show more] | |||
| Items found during renovation of The Cedars Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Items found during renovation of The Cedars Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Items found during restoration of The Cedars. See Reference Item 3006 for information about these items. | |||
| Brooke Astor's Cove End, Summers on Mount Desert in Maine Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Brooke Astor's Cove End, Summers on Mount Desert in Maine Northeast Harbor Library Description: An article about Brooke Astor's summer home. Interior Design by Mark Hampton, & Nancy Pierrepont. Landscape Architecture by Morgan Wheelock. Photography by B. Brink. | ||
| Photograph of Burnmouth from the water Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Photograph of Burnmouth from the water Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Photograph of Burnmouth as seen from the water. Burnmouth was designed by Boston architect William Ralph Emerson and built by contractor John E. Clark in 1885-86. The original owner was W.B. Walley. The house was located on Eden Street. This photograph shows the original porch of the house, which was significantly altered in 1926. The house was torn down in 1979, and the grounds became the site of a hotel. Writing on the back of the photograph reads: Mrs. R.H. McCormick Eden St. Atlantic Motel - Tennis Courts There now The cottage name is sometimes misspelled as Bournemouth. [show more] | |||
| Photograph of Burnmouth Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Photograph of Burnmouth Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Black and white photograph of the entrance facade of Burnmouth, a summer cottage located on Eden Street, Bar Harbor. Burnmouth was designed by Boston architect William Ralph Emerson and built by contractor John E. Clark over the winter of 1885-86. The original owner was W.B. Walley. During the 1960s the house was owned by the McCormick family. Burnmouth was torn down in 1979. The cottage name is sometimes misspelled as Bournemouth. In addition to the cottage name, writing on the back of the photograph reads: Please return to Palmer + Hall Real Estate + Insurance 28 Cottage St Bar Harbor, Maine P [show more] | |||
| House for L. Belle Smallidge Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  House for L. Belle Smallidge Northeast Harbor Library Description: Blueprints, 16.5x11.5", of four level floor plans of house for L. Belle Smallidge. See also Item 2607 | |||
| House for Mr. William Dupee Esq. Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  House for Mr. William Dupee Esq. Northeast Harbor Library Description: Blueprints, 21x12", of interior and exterior of house for Mr. William Dupee on Islesboro. Too fragile to handle. | |||
| Islesford Photobook 1903-1904 Islesford Historical Society |
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|  Islesford Photobook 1903-1904 Islesford Historical Society Description: Photographs by William Coolidge Lane, (1859-1931), Librarian of Harvard College; father of Rosamond Lane Lord and Margaret Lane, Acq. #0172 | ||||
| Cottage House College of the Atlantic |
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|  Cottage House College of the Atlantic
Description: A photo of Cottage House student residence in winter. | |||
| Cottage House College of the Atlantic |
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|  Cottage House College of the Atlantic
Description: A photo of Cottage House student residence. | |||
| Davis Carriage House College of the Atlantic |
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|  Davis Carriage House College of the Atlantic
Description: A photo of a person standing in the doorway of the attic storage space in the Davis Carriage House | |||
| Davis Carriage House College of the Atlantic |
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|  Davis Carriage House College of the Atlantic
Description: A photo of the attic insulation of the Davis Carriage House. |
