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Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Otter Creek showing Russian Tea Room
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Farmhouse
  • Structures, Transportation, Bridge
  • 1880's
  • Bar Harbor, Otter Creek
Otter Creek showing Russian Tea Room
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Otter Creek from western shore. Shows wooden bridge, Russian Tea Room to right of trees above water. Farm dates from 1880's. Collected for "Mount Desert: an Informal History". Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
Casino Trick Skating Advertisement Card
Bar Harbor Historical Society
  • Document, Advertising, Advertising Card
  • Structures, Commercial, Commercial Structures
  • 1883-07
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Undetermined
Casino Trick Skating Advertisement Card
Bar Harbor Historical Society
Description:
Beige card with black text across entire face. Advertisement for Messrs. Battey and Hacker Tick and Fancy Skating at the Bar Harbor Casino on Wednesday, July 25th, 1883.
View of the Shorefront at Bar Harbor from the West End Hotel
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Places, Shore
  • Places, Town
  • Pollock - Charles Pollock (1828-1900)
  • 1882
  • Bar Harbor, Eden
  • No Copyright - United States
Description:
This photograph was probably from an 1882 series of photographic views of New Hampshire and Maine published by Charles Pollock. The series included four views of Bar Harbor.
Fiday Club By-Laws and Consitution
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Bylaws
  • Other, Hotels
  • Other, Menus
  • Other, West End Hotel
  • Shaw, G. M.
  • 8/15/1880
Fiday Club By-Laws and Consitution
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Four pages of hand written notes titled Constitution and By-laws. Also one page listing the members who have paid their dues.
New Year’s card from Morey Churchill & Morey of Boston, “Crockery, Lamps, Gas Fixtures.”
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Advertising, Advertising Card
  • Other, Advertising
  • 1888
Description:
New Year’s card from “Morey Churchill & Morey” of Boston, “Crockery, Lamps, Gas Fixtures.” It includes a monthly calendar on the back, “in convenient form”, for January, 1888. On the front is a color picture of a big snow-covered log cabin with smoking chimneys, a frozen pond, and a man and a woman outside near a wagon. It says, “With the Seasons Compliments; Wishing You a Prosperous New Year; We Subscribe Ourselves: yours to Command. Morey, Churchill and Morey.” Previously archived as object id 016.FIC.001.3.b, old accession number **1540 [show more]
Death Notice of Daniel Somes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Announcement, Obituary
  • Other, Obituary
  • Copied from Mount Desert Herald
  • 1/18/1885
Death Notice of Daniel Somes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Death notice of Daniel Somes, 1803-1882, copied from the Mount Desert Herald of January 18, 1883. Includes biographical information on Somes.
Journal of Voyage to the Island of Mt Desart
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • 1887
Journal of Voyage to the Island of Mt Desart
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Complete article from Bangor Historical Magazine, Journal of Voyage to the Island of Mt. Desart, 1762 by Sir Francis Bernard
Notes from Aug 1, 1884-Aug 23, 1884
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, List, Inventory
  • Unknown
  • 8/1/1884-8/23/1884
Notes from Aug 1, 1884-Aug 23, 1884
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
1 typed page Inventory of photos, papers, books compiled by unknown author.
Notes from Aug 1, 1884-Aug 23, 1884
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Unknown
  • 8/1/1884-8/23/1884
Notes from Aug 1, 1884-Aug 23, 1884
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
7 typed pages A recounting of the founding of the Champlain Society by Charles Eliot, purpose of the group, selection of the camp on Mount Desert Island, the set-up of Northeast Harbor at the time, gathering of provisions while on Mount Desert Island. Hand written notes on the last two pages of the document.
Notes on the Champlain Society
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book, Journal, Diary
  • Unknown
  • 1880, 1884
Notes on the Champlain Society
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
5 hand witten pages Diary of events from March 31, 1880, May 6, 1880, July 26-29, 1884 Aug 1-23, 1884. Personal diary of unknown author detalining leaving Mount Desert Island and returning to Cambridge and then the return to Camp a few days later.
Note
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Note
  • Unknown
  • Monday July 4, 1881
Note
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
1 Typed Page Excerpt fromt he Champlain Society Log book Monday July 4,1881. Details, Raising of the flag at Camp Pemetic, fireworks at Northeast Harbor.
Map of Mount Desert Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Map
  • Unknown
  • Monday July 4, 1881
Map of Mount Desert Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Map of Mount Desert Island from 1896 Map has holes in it from where it has been creased over the years.
Advertisement cards
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Advertising, Advertising Card
  • Other, Advertising
  • 1888
Advertisement cards
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Advertising card for “Libby McNeill & Libby’s” canned meats. The card has a picture of King Lear and his fool from Act III, Scene II. It says, “He that has a house to put his head in [and Libby McNeilll & Libby’s canned meats to eat] has a good head [and stomach] piece.” Durham card with cows identified as Charlie and George, John Dwight and Company Dwight's cow brand soda for cooking
House at Indian Head, Northeast Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Fred L. Savage
  • 1880's
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
4 blueprints, 5 blueprints stapled, 7 drawings loose. Gabled house with patterned shingles, columned piazza. Used by John Manchester III Inn. Stacy B. Lloyd, 1993. See also 0073 FLS (item 1072) and GHC 357 (item 2562)
Consecration of the Chapel of St. Mary by the Sea
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Organizations, Religious
  • 1882
Description:
Purple booklet of service for the blessing of the church chapel in memory of Mary Spring from her husband Edward Newton Perkins.
Report of a Committee of the No. East Harbor Association for the Protection of the Woods from Fire
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Events, Fire
  • Places
  • Northeast Harbor Association for the protection of the Woods from Fire
  • 1884
Description:
Report of a Committee of the No. East Harbor Association for the protection of the woods from fire, upon the forest fires on the Island of Mount Desert, Me., in the year 1883, with a brief record of the same, and some suggestions for the better protection of the woods in the future.
Nests and eggs of the birds of the United States
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Gentry - Thomas George Gentry (1843-1905)
  • 1882
Description:
Published by J. A. Wagenseller
List of the children of E. L. and R? Gott
Tremont Historical Society
  • Document, List
  • 1880s
Sketchbook of a summer at the Stanley House Hotel
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book, Journal, Diary
  • People
  • 1882
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
A sketchbook kept by Daniel Lewis' Great-Great Grandmother depicting the summer of 1882 at the Stanley House Hotel.
Bill of Sale between Jacob Higgins and Thomas Church
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Sales Record, Bill of Sale
  • April 28th, 1883
Bill of Sale between Jacob Higgins and Thomas Church
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Bill of Sale between Jacob Higgins and Thomas Church (last name?). "I agree to sell the timbers that lies on Sparow Higgins Landing so called if he likes the timbers and all the plank also by paying 12 dollars per thousand." Blue Hill April 28th, 1883
Mary Ann Norris Holmes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Late 1880s
Mary Ann Norris Holmes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Large gold-framed photographic portrait of Mary Ann (Norris) Holmes (1814-1898), wife of Leonard Holmes (1814-1894); mother of Emma Amelia (Holmes) Allen (1859-1929) and Leonard Elrie Holmes (1857-137). Mary Ann and Leonard were married in 1837. Emma Amelia married Melville Leighton Allen. Leonard Elrie Holmes married Mary Ellen Rosebrook.
High School Reporter Newsletter
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • March 1889
High School Reporter Newsletter
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
The High School Reporter Newsletter, Southwest Harbor, March 1889, talks about the whereabouts of alumni of the Southwest Harbor High School. There are also articles from different alumni, reports of what they are doing now, present Tremont High School business, stories, ads, and grammar lessons.
Certificate of Ordination as Deacon - William Thomas Manning
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Award, Achievement Certificate
  • 1889
Description:
Certificate of ordination as a Deacon in the Episcopal Church, Diocese of Tennessee, for William Thomas Manning. Manning was a summer resident of Somesville and owner of The Mount Desert House. Manning became Bishop of the Diocese of New York. 1889. William Thomas Manning From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008 | The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: William Thomas Manning 1866-1949, American Episcopal bishop of New York, b. England, received his collegiate and theological training at the Univ. of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. Ordained a priest (1891), he served parishes in California, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee and taught dogmatic theology at the Univ. of the South before becoming rector of Trinity parish, New York City, in 1908. Manning was bishop of New York from 1921 until his retirement in 1946. [show more]
Mourning Card, Hollis Edmond Fernald, 1889
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Mourning Card
  • 1889
Mourning Card, Hollis Edmond Fernald, 1889
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
One page of photos and memorabilia found in a 8x10 worn red velvet photo album in poor condition. This card was probably used at the funeral services for Hollis Edmond Fernald, 5 mo., 1889.
Women's Bodice
Bar Harbor Historical Society
  • Object, Clothing, Bodice
  • 1885 c
  • Copyright Undetermined
Women's Bodice
Bar Harbor Historical Society
Description:
Pink polished cotton print bodice with button front with steal cut buttons and a back drape.