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Tools on pegboard Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Tools on pegboard Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Tools diplayed on two plywood boards. Spinning wheel and Mammy bench, a rocking bench to seat mother and child, below the tools. | |||
Scale Model, Wendell Gilley Museum, Southwest Harbor Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Scale Model, Wendell Gilley Museum, Southwest Harbor Wendell Gilley Museum | |||
Ted Spurling & Maurice Phllips Islesford Historical Society |
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| Ted Spurling & Maurice Phllips Islesford Historical Society Description: March 1997 Partially completed Islesford Historical Society | ||||
Islesford Museum Islesford Historical Society |
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| Islesford Museum Islesford Historical Society | ||||
Islesford Historial Museum Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Islesford Historial Museum Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: William Otis Sawtelle (1874-1939), physicist, historian, genealogist, author founded the museum in 1919. Architect Edmund B. Gilchrist designed the Colonial Revival building, built in 1927. The building, Sawtelle’s Edwin Hadlock’s ship chandlery (The Blue Duck Ships’ Store) the Sawtelle gravesite, and 1.3 acres were acquired by the National Park Service in 1948. The Islesford Historical Museum built in 1927 contains deeds, maps, engravings, papers, and artifacts related to the early history of the Acadia region. The collection also includes artifacts of the region's cultural history including fur- nishings, tools, photographs and scrapbooks. The records of the active schooner which carried cargoes from the Cranberry Isles to ports all over the world cover about one hundred years beginning in 1796. [show more] | ||
Wendell Gilley Museum Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Wendell Gilley Museum Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The Wendell Gilley Museum is a community center that celebrates the life and work of Wendell Gilley, a pioneer in the field of decorative bird carving. It teaches the art of bird carving and presents art exhibitions and educational programs with a special focus on people, nature and art. The Museum endeavors to inspire appreciation of the visual arts, engagement in artistic creativity, and respect and care for the natural world. |