Description: Several photographs of charcoal drawings by Agnes Yarnall LePage (1904-1998). Category "Charcoal Drawings". Ages Yarnall LePage was a sculptor, painter, poet and artistic historian. This collection of photographs was purchased at an estate auction and donated to the library in 1996. Cover/1 - 16: Early drawings (1940's) 17 -18: Circus 19 - 22: Charcoal and pencil ("Frenchman", "Another Boat") 23 - 25: Still Life 26: "The Tool House" (crayon sanguine) 27 - 28: Religious 29 - 51: Later drawings (including "Ehb") 52: "Fields to the West - Crum Creek" [show more]
Description: Blueprint, 34x28", of Mary N. Crofoot property at Harbor Brook, conveyed from Wheelwright in 1937 and 1944. Other properties shown are Robinson and Shattuck. See also Item 2656
Description: Several clipped articles about the 1943 war time activity in the Town of Mount Desert. Focus on residents: Wilma Clark Eaton, Herbert Thomas (town manager), servicemen Fred Ralph, James McElroy, Ray Young, and Charles Stover.
Description: Card with photograph of the U.S.S. Missourilaunched January 29, 1944Commissioned June 11, 1944Visited Bar Harbor in August of 1946Connie Jellison went on board for a tour
Description: Script of a three-act play by Parker Fennelly of New York and Northeast Harbor. It was staged at the Morosco Theater in NY in October 1941 under direction of Antoinette Perry. 1st copyright title " Two Story House" 1941; Cuckoos on the Hearth 1942. Scan: Cover, first pages only.
Description: Historical address of Dr. Horace Leavitt on the 100th anniversary of the Somesville Union Meeting House. He traces early history of Somesville and many families. Bar Harbor Times, September 19, 1940.
Description: Blueprint, 28.5x11.5", of division of the Herrick property off Clark Point Rd. in SW Harbor into house lots. Adjoining properties of M. Carroll, W. Carroll, and R. White.
Description: Copy of 1928 blueprint by Alvah Reed of former William Frazier property on Schoolhouse Ledge, showing the 1937 land purchase of Kinney. Also labeled as Stetson property, formerly Hurd.
Description: Blueprint, 35x17", of "Juniper Ledge", property of Mrs. Horace Green at Wesson's Point, Northeast Harbor. Adjoining lots: Mary W. Williams and heirs of Daniel Kimball.
Description: Plot plan, 20 1/2x29" on parchment, of "The Birches" off Manchester Road on Somes Sound. Circa 1940's it was listed on Knowles maps as owned by Yarnall; in 2009 it's listed Bouscaren, Clark, Webster as "Treetops"
Description: Pencil sketch of properties between Rock End Rd. and Kimball Rd. in Northeast Harbor showing Neighborhood House, Rectory, Kimball, Hodgdon, Foster land.
Description: Blueprint, 28x24", showing contours of land, and lots, south of Sea Street proposed for Consolidated High School. It is also titled "topographical map of the Sea Street area." Names listed include: Proctor Smallidge, L. E. Kimball, Crushing Plant, Stella Hill, I. T. Moore, E. C. Ober, C. N. Small.
Description: Lot map (20 1/2x13") of H. VanDyke property on Dodge Point, Seal Harbor. Lots of neighbors (N. Rockefeller, Dr. Angell, Fletcher, McAlpin, Douglass, Ford, Harrison, Church - St. Jude; Seal Harbor Congregational, Reed) are indicated. Prepared by Charles Simpson. (Kn. Map 1; lot 10-16)
Description: Small pencil sketch on parchment of property of Stella Hill on Main St., Northeast Harbor (Whitmore House Lot). Cottage outlined is 144 Main Street, Maison Suisse, aka K. J. Stevens Cottage. Other names mentioned: Proctor Smallidge, Foster, Stanley, Stella Hill, Smith, Abbie Younghaus.
Description: Blueprint, 45x33", showing property of Walter H. Lippincott on South Shore Rd., Northeast Harbor. Nearby properties of Morris, Melcher, and Sibley. See also items 2323 (GHC 130), 2353 (GHC 158), 2341 (GHC 147).
Description: Bound typescript on the history of the Northeast Harbor Water Company, written by Maurice H. Burr, Superintendent. Includes a 1988 handwritten introduction by Robert R. Pyle.
Description: Roger Clifton Rich (1913-1996) and Ralph Merrill Grindle (1915-2005) established Rich & Grindle Boatbuilders in 1946 at Tracy Cove on Clark Point Road.Ê State patrol boat owned by Dalzell on blocks in Rich-Grindle boat yard during winter. People Mentioned: Vernon Dalzell Black and white