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Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Poster for "Fishing with Wesley Bracy, Jr."
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Advertising, Poster
  • Events
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • 2004
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Poster for "Fishing with Wesley Bracy, Jr."
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Poster for Historical Museum Opener, featuring 2 videos: "Fishing with Wesley Bracy, Jr." and "Ice Harvesting", plus ice lecture by Bill Lawler, held 7 July 2004. (video of lecture on miniDV tape #2004-0004, and see 2013.265.1998 and all years>video)
Letter from Harvard to Saltonstall re: shark
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Events
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • 1955
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Letter from Harvard to Saltonstall re: shark
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Letter, from Henry B. Bigelow, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, Cambridge MA, 6 Sep 1955, to John L. Saltonstall, identifying man-eating shark that attacked boat
Museum opening day photos
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • 2000
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Museum opening day photos
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Photos, color, of islanders at Grand Opening of GCI Historical Museum, 6 August 2000
Ed & Lesley Horvath wedding souvenir map
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Map
  • Events
  • People
  • Places
  • 1998
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Ed & Lesley Horvath wedding souvenir map
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Map, Great Cranberry Island, with tourist information, made as souvenir for guests of the marriage of Ed & Lesley Horvath, 1998.
Letters to Ada Emerson
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Events
  • Other
  • People
  • Henry Kelley
  • 1859-1864
Letters to Ada Emerson
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Letters from Henry Kelley (Emerson?) to his mother, Ada Emerson, in Indian River, ME describing his Civil War encampment with the Maine 10th Regiment at Camp Washburn, MD & Harper's Ferry, VA. Given to library by Carl Kelley.
Letter to Gertrude Fay from Charles Savage
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Businesses, Farming
  • Events, Fire
  • People
  • 11/23/1973
Description:
Letter and a bill (related to framing) to Mrs. Fay from Charles Savage. Includes remarks about the fire which destroyed Augustus Phillips workshop and about Charles's trip to California, etc. Related to ART 0025
Memorial Service of Samuel Smith Drury, D. D.
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Program
  • Events
  • People
  • 1938
Description:
21-Aug-38
Rivers Clippings Collection Finding Aid
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Events
  • People
  • Places
  • 1937-2012
Description:
1 filing cabinet containing folders with envelopes, loose articles and clippings about local people, families, organizations and events. Articles are not catalogued by year nor subject. Files have been extracted from FileMaker (expect some formatting inaccuracies).
Memorial service for Bishop Malcolm Endicott Peabody
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Program
  • Events
  • People
  • 1974
Description:
In Thanksgiving for the Life of Malcolm Endicott Peabody of Brookline, MA and Bishop of Central New York for 22 years before his retirement in 1960. He was married to Mary Peabody.
Margaret Haynes Clippings Collection
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Events
  • People
  • Places
  • 1920-2004
Margaret Haynes Clippings Collection
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
17 boxes containing scrapbooks, envelopes with loose articles and clippings, some with dates others without dates. Articles are not catalogued by year nor subject
Inspired by China: An interview with Joe Tracy
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Events
  • People
  • John Lavine
  • Feb-07
Description:
Joe Tracy, furniture designer and crafter of Somesville, is interviewed following an exhibition of Chinese furniture at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. He details the making of his presentation of a cabinet based on a Chinese tangram.
Local contractors and workmen
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events
  • People
Local contractors and workmen
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
The crews of various contractors who built Driftwood. Bill Peckham far right, Bart Dyer, Frank Stanley in front row.
Iola Klaas and LaRue Spiker on Their Position in Regard to the Stockholm Resolution of Peace Statement, c. 1950
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Declaration
  • Events
  • Other
  • People
  • Klaas, Iola
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1950 c.
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Iola Klaas and LaRue Spiker explain the background and importance of the Stockholm Resolution of Peace, which was passed at the World Committee in Defense of Peace. They emphasize the dangers of atomic warfare, particularly for children, and advocate for the outlawing of the atomic bomb. People Mentioned: O. John Rogge, Rockwell Kent, Albert Kahn, Johannes Steel, W. E. B. DuBois
LaRue Spiker Disputing Accusations of Communism Statement, July 8, 1950 (1)
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Declaration
  • Events
  • Other
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1950-07-08
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
LaRue Spiker provides a statement regarding her activities of July 7, 1950. She relates a conversation with reporter Ed Cotton about a communist petition she had allegedly distributed. People Mentioned: Ed Cotton, Iola Klaas, Maurice O. Hunt
LaRue Spiker Disputing Accusations of Communism Statement, July 8, 1950 (2)
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Declaration
  • Events
  • Other
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1950-07-08
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
LaRue Spiker provides a statement regarding her activities of July 6, 1950. She explains that she was attempting to get signatures on petition from the Civil Rights Congress about the Stockholm Resolution for Peace when she was stopped and questioned by police officers.
Collection of poetry by Dr. Frederick Fraley Sr.
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Literary, Poem
  • Events
  • Other
  • People
  • Frederick Fraley Sr.
  • from 1904 on
Description:
a + b: Collection of poems written by Dr. Frederick Fraley Sr. c + d: Memoir and Obituary of Dr. Frederick Fraley Sr. e: 103rd Annual Dinner of the Shakespeare Society of Philadelphia Dr. Fraley was the very pattern of a proper Philadelphian, from his birth in 1876 until his death at the age of 83. He was educated there, practiced medicine there & in Northeast Harbor. Offprint from The Pennsylvania Magazine of Hist. & Biog.
Cape Cod, Its People and their History
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Chart, Family Tree
  • Events
  • Other
  • People
  • Places
  • Henry C. Kittredge
  • 1930
Description:
History of first settlers; How the early settlers lived; Civil and Military history to 1775; The Revolution.
The American Loyalists
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Chart, Family Tree
  • Events
  • Other
  • People
  • Lorenzo Sabine
  • 1847
The American Loyalists
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Biographical Sketches of Adherents to the British Crown in War of the American Revolution.
Roll of Simeon Milliken's company of Militia
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, List
  • Events
  • People
  • 1813
Description:
List of soldiers in Colonel John Black's regiment mustered in Ellsworth for the defense of Mount Desert 7 to 9 days in March and April 1813.
Ruminations of a (Reluctant) B-29 Gunner
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book, Journal, Diary
  • Events
  • Other
  • People
  • Clark Hoyt
  • 11/21/2010
Description:
World War II diary of Hoyt Clark from training camp Feb. 1944 until discharge Nov. 1945. Serving on Guam and Tinian Islands in the Pacific, he describes bombing raids over Japan
Letter from Adney Boothby in the battlefield
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Events
  • Other
  • People
  • Adney Boothby
  • 1863
Description:
Civil War letter of Adney Boothby to his folks at home. Written on July 4, 1863.
Re-enacting
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Events
  • Other
  • People
  • Joseph Smith
  • 1983
Re-enacting
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Copy of an article about Civil War Reenactments by Joseph Smith, teacher at Mt. Desert Elementary School in early 1980's. Mr. Smith was actively involved with the Maine Civil War Company reenactment group.
A Memorial Project
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Events
  • Object, Site Marker, Monument
  • People
  • Lawrence Bartlett
  • 11/11/1998
A Memorial Project
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
The Photograph of the Memorial is in Photograph Collection #1304. This is the History of the Downeast Chapter, lists of men lost in action in WWII, dedication at Maine Maritime Academy.
Carroll S. Tyson, 1878-1956
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Advertising, Brochure
  • Events
  • People
  • 1974
Carroll S. Tyson, 1878-1956
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
A retrospective exhibition, October 15-November 9, 1974 held at the Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York.
Gymkhana Photograph Album no. 2
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Photograph Album
  • Events
  • Nature, Animals, Horses
  • People
  • 1904
Gymkhana Photograph Album no. 2
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
The photographs are of the Gymkhana, which was an event held on August 31, 1904 to benefit the Northeast Harbor Library. The albums were assembled by Katharine Lowell Roosevelt and later Mrs. J. Stanley Reeve (Katharine Roosevelt Reeve). Gymkhana is an equestrian event involving timed games and speed races. These items were passed down from Katharine Lowell Roosevelt to her daughter, Katharine Roosevelt Reeve (mother) to Katharine Reeve Draper Schutt (daughter, donor). Album no. 2: 46 photographs See also items 5693 (brochure), 6970 (album no. 1) [show more]