Description: The United Church of Christ (Congregational) on the High Road when the building was only a couple of years old. View is from the Dirigo Road looking down the High Road. Looking west, one can see the small bean and clam canning factory of Allen Lawler at the foot of Lawler Lane.
Description: 17 albertype illustrations from photographs of views on Mount Desert Island, Maine...The plates in these portfolios [the Forbes Co. series] are larger than the average size of book plates and are therefore more commanding. Large individual prints are very uncommon in the United States."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 78 Includes plates: 1. Bar Harbor from Summit of Green Mountain 2. Great Head and Newport Sands 3. Schooner Head 4. Green Mountain Railway, 500 Feet Grade 5. The Oven 6. The Profile and Natural Bridge at the Oven 7. The Boulder, Bar Harbor 8. Steamer Mount Desert 9. Green Mountain Railway Station at Base of Green Mountain 10. Summit House on Green Mountain 11. Steamer Wauwinet on Eagle Lake 12. Eagle Lake 13. Eagle Lake House 14. Green Mountain Railway, - The Gulch 15. Otter Cliffs 16. View from Otter Cliff 17. Bar Harbor [show more]
Description: A souvenir album of the Bar Harbor, Maine, area published by Charles W. Eddy, Ware, Massachusetts, with autoglyph prints by W. P. Allen, West Gardner, Massachusetts. Includes "21 autoglyph illustrations [by W.P. Allen] from photographs at Mount Desert, Maine, and a portrait. W.P. Allen, of West Gardner, purchased Artotype patent rights [in] 1879...Chandler identifies the Autoglyph with the Indotype patent." -- Hanson Collection catalog, p. 79 Includes photographs of: - Rodick House - Pulpit Rock - Balancing Rock - Duck Brook - Eagle Lake House - Green Mountain Railroad Train - Summit House on Green (Cadillac) Mountain - Mount Desert Island from Hancock Point - East from Sullivan Landing - Spouting Horn - Buckboard Part with Bee-Hive (Beehive) Mountain in background - Great Head - The Ovens - Cathedral Rock - Profile Rock - Natural Bridge - Great Oven [show more]
Description: Lurvey Lands from top of map to lower left: Lurvey Est. - No. 49 at top of map – Jacob Lurvey (1761-1853) G.L. Lurvey - Gilbert Lafayette Lurvey (1841-1906) – Grandson of Jacob Lurvey C. Lurvey - Cyrus H. Lurvey (1830-1901) – Grandson of Jacob Lurvey S. Lurvey – Samuel J. Lurvey Jr. (1817-1893) – Grandson of Jacob Lurvey L. Lurvey – Lemuel Lurvey (1839-1923) – Great Grandson of Jacob Lurvey E.D. Lurvey – Ezra Dodge Lurvey (1853-1931) – Grandson of Jacob Lurvey J.D. Lurvey – John Dodge Lurvey (1823-1893) – Grandson of Jacob Lurvey L. Lurvey – on Seal Cove Road – Levi Lurvey (1832-1902) – Grandson of Jacob Lurvey [show more]
Description: Map of Mount Dessert Island, Sorrento, portions of Lamoine, Hancock, Frenchmans Bay, and adjacent islands. Compiled and drawn from official plans and actual surveys.
Description: 1. Correspondence about Asticou Foreside properties between Charles Eliot II and Gilman, Abbot, Clement, Wainwright, Smallidge, Pierce-Gardiner, and Merrill, Deasy. 2. Quit claim deeds of Asticou Foreside properties.
Description: Document, "Opinion", by H.D. Hadlock, on whether A.C. Fernald, elected Town of CI selectman March 1879, but moved to Town of MDI June 1879, should still be allowed to preside over and vote at CI Town meetings, 23 Feb 1880. Ambiguous answer.
Description: Total valuation for town, includes number of polls assessed, poll rate, town assessment requirements per town meeting for town operations, schools, roads, county tax, vessels and owners, non-residents-assessments and tax collector's statement at end of listing marbleized paper cover, reinforced black cloth spine, stitched binding-inside pages are pre-printed forms filled out by assessor
Description: Total valuation for town, includes number of polls assessed, poll rate, town assessment requirements per town meeting for town operations, schools, roads, county tax, vessels and owners, non-residents-assessments and tax collector's statement at end of listing marbleized paper cover, reinforced black cloth spine, stitched binding-inside pages are pre-printed forms filled out by assessor
Description: Total valuation for town, includes number of polls assessed, poll rate, town assessment requirements per town meeting for town operations, schools, roads, county tax, vessels and owners, non-residents-assessments and tax collector's statement at end of listing mottled brown and cream paper cover, reinforced black cloth spine, stitched binding-inside pages are pre-printed forms filled out by assessor
Description: Total valuation for town, includes number of polls assessed, poll rate, town assessment requirements per town meeting for town operations, schools, roads, county tax, vessels and owners, non-residents-assessments and tax collector's statement at end of listing marbleized paper cover, reinforced black cloth spine, stitched binding-inside pages are pre-printed forms filled out by assessor
Description: Total valuation for town, includes number of polls assessed, poll rate, town assessment requirements per town meeting for town operations, schools, roads, county tax, vessels and owners, non-residents-assessments and tax collector's statement at end of listing marbleized paper cover, reinforced black cloth spine, stitched binding-inside pages are pre-printed forms filled out by assessor
Description: Total valuation for town, includes number of polls assessed, poll rate, town assessment requirements per town meeting for town operations, schools, roads, county tax, vessels and owners, non-residents-assessments and tax collector's statement at end of listing 19 x 12 x 0.5 marbleized paper cover, reinforced black cloth spine, stitched binding-inside pages are pre-printed forms filled out by assessor
Description: Total valuation for town, includes number of polls assessed, poll rate, town assessment requirements per town meeting for town operations, schools, roads, county tax, vessels and owners, non-residents-assessments and tax collector's statement at end of listing 19 x 12 x 0.75 marbleized paper cover, reinforced black cloth spine, stitched binding-inside pages are pre-printed forms filled out by assessor
Description: Total valuation for town, includes number of polls assessed, poll rate, town assessment requirements per town meeting for town operations, schools, roads, county tax, vessels and owners, non-residents-assessments and tax collector's statement at end of listing 19 x 12.25 x 0.5 marbleized paper cover, reinforced black cloth spine, stitched binding-inside pages are pre-printed forms filled out by assessor
Description: Total valuation for town, includes number of polls assessed, poll rate, town assessment requirements per town meeting for town operations, schools, roads, county tax, vessels and owners, non-residents-assessments and tax collector's statement at end of listing N.B. note on cover states: Assessments in school district No. 1 and No. 8 will be found in Valuation book of 1886 18.75 x 14.875 x 0.5 marbleized paper cover, reinforced black cloth spine, stitched binding-inside pages are pre-printed forms filled out by assessor; printers label on front cover [show more]
Description: Total valuation for town, includes number of polls assessed, poll rate, town assessment requirements per town meeting for town operations, schools, roads, county tax, vessels and owners, non-residents-assessments and tax collector's statement at end of listing marbleized paper cover, reinforced black cloth spine, stitched binding-inside pages are pre-printed forms filled out by assessor; printers label on front cover
Description: “Bar Harbor Days” by Mrs. Burton Harrison with illustrations by Fenn and Hyde was published by Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York, 1887.
Description: “Bar Harbor Days” by Mrs. Burton Harrison with illustrations by Fenn and Hyde was published by Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York, 1887.
Description: An illustration of Rusticators on the top of Newport Mountain, later known as Champlain Mountain. From Harper's Weekly, Volume 22, No. 1654