Description: "Cottage Costing about $3,000. Stone foundation, shingled sides and roof. Designed as a Summer House by W.A. Bates." Page from "The House and Home - A Practical Book" by Dr. Lyman Abbott and others. Chapter XIV, House Building by Helen Churchill Candee, p. 66 - 1896
Description: Wedding Quilt, hand embroidered squares cotton, hand sown together. Red embroidery. Center panel embroidered with date 1893. Flowers, birds, animals. Stitched by Addie Murphy. Redwork Embroidery.
Description: Map of the Railroads of the State of Maine Accompanying the Report of the Railroad Commissioners. Prepared for the Board of Railroad Commissioners under the direction of William A. Allen, C.E., Revised by Fred W.S. Blanchard. Bath, Me, 1899
Description: Receipt from American MIssionary Society for $2.00 contribution from the King's Daughters Circle of Mount Desert, Mary Somes, President. Also includes envelope addressed to Miss Mary A. Somes. Enrollment form of Emma Richardson, Mt Desert, Maine in the International Order of The King's Daughters and Sons, NYC Mae Hill, Mt Desert, ME is the Leader of the Circle known as Somesville Silver Cross (n.d.) Note indicates that Mae Hill was married to Paul Ather? [show more]
Description: portrait of man in finely striped suit with black tie and white shirt. Mustache and hair parted on left side. Caption on back reads “December 1897.” Face turned slightly away from the camera (not looking straight ahead).
Description: Annual report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association. The report includes the addresses of the association's president and vice president made during the annual meeting, individual committee reports, maps of walking paths, a list of members, and the association's charter and by-laws. People Mentioned: C. S Abercrombie, Mrs. Arthur D. Addison, Robert Amory, Mrs. Orlando Ash, H. D. Averill, Albert Clifford Barney, Edgar W. Bass, Mrs. Edgar W. Bass, Waldron Bates, Edith Bell, Arthur Biddle, Christine W. Biddle, Mrs. Henry J. Biddle, Mrs. James J. Bowden, Mrs. G. P. Bowler, Addie Bunker, David A. Bunker, Rosalie Cole Campbell, J. J. Canning, H. G. Chapman, Charles R. Clark, John E. Clark, Edward Coles, Francis M. Conners, Mary E. Crafts, Mrs. Alfred de Castro, Luere B. Deasy, Hasket Derby, Mrs. Hasket Derby, L. Taylor Dickson, George B. Dorr, Mary G. Dorr, Lucy Draper, William P. Draper, Mrs. Henry E. Drayton, Frank S.lin Henry Ellis, Mrs. Franklin Ellis, R. W. Emmons, DeGrasse Fox, Mrs. DeGrasse Fox, Max Franklin, Mrs. George E. Freeman, Mrs. Taylor Frost, Charles Fry, Mrs. Charles Fry, Mrs. James W. Gerard, Mrs. Frederic N. Goddard, Parke Godwin, Charles Green, Augustus C. Gurnee, Delia E. Gurnee, B. L. Hadley, E. C. Haight, George S. Hale, Mrs. George S. Hale, Elihu T. Hamor, H. E. Hapworth, Mrs. Alpheus H. Hardy, Mrs. H. C. Hart, Addie B. Higgins, B. S. Higgins, H. P. Higgins, John T. Higgins, Mrs. John T. Higgins, Mrs. Daniel Hinckley, Asa Hodgkins, John Homans, Charles T. How, Reuben Hoyt, Mrs. William Hunt, Herbert Jaques, Morris K. Jesup, Samuel Johnston, Beatrix Jones, Mrs. F. R. Jones, Walter Kane, John S. Kennedy, Mrs. John S. Kennedy, Adelaide Kimball, Mrs. G. L. Kingsland, R. H. Kittredge, Julius Kurson, Mrs. William Lawrence, William Lawrence, C. S. Leffingwell, Elizabeth Linzee, Mrs. T. C. A. Linzee, Johnston Livingston, Morris Longstreth, Mrs. Morris Longstreth, Fred C. Lynam, Mrs. John Markoe, Mrs. A. L. Mason, Mrs. Nathan Matthews, Nathan Matthews, Fannie Miller, W. A. Milliken, E. C. Minot, H. J. Minot, Louisa S. Minot, M. Minot, S. C. Minot, Mrs. S. S. Minturn, A. W. Morrill, C. J. Morrill, Charles Norris, Clara Norris, Joseph P. Norris, Mrs. Joseph P. Norris, H. M. Norton, David B. Ogden, Mrs. Herbert Parsons, Anna P. Peabody, F. G. Peabody, F. H. Peabody, Mrs. A. P. Peabody, Edmund Pendleton, Iphigenia Z. Place, Mrs. George Place, J. Biddle Porter, Abby A. Potter, Austin Potter, Mrs. R. B. Potter, R. B. Potter, B. C. Reynolds, Gertrude S. Rice, Mrs. William B. Rice, William B. Rice, Eugene B. Richards, George A. Robbins, W. M. Roberts, Serenus H. Rodick, William Rogers, Mrs. John Sanders, Maria D. Saunders, Henry Sayles, A. F. Schauffler, Mrs. A. F. Schauffler, Mrs. Thomas A. Scott, Mary Shannon, Gardiner Sherman, William H. Sherman, C. Morton Smith, Edward A. Smith, F. Fremont Smith, Mrs. Charles D. Smith, Mrs. A. F. Stout, Mrs. R. S. Sturgis, J. Madison Taylor, Mrs. J. Madison Taylor, J. B. Thayer, Mrs. J. B. Thayer, Frank Thompson, Augustus Thorndike, Mrs. A. D. Torrey, George Vanderbilt, E. C. Washington, Mrs. W. Herbert Washington, W. Herbert Washington, George D. Wescott, George M. Wheeler, George G. Wheelock, E. C. White, H. C. Wilkins, Frances E. Wood, Joseph Wood [show more]
Description: This man has yet to be identified, although archivists are led to believe that he is a relative of Leone Marie (Wemmert) Kellam on her father's side.
Description: A map showing walking paths on the eastern half of Mount Desert Island. The map is adapted from an 1896 map of Mount Desert Island compiled by Waldron Bates, Edward L. Rand, and Herbert Jaques.
Description: Map with contour lines indicating elevations, islands and areas names; bodies also named. Map is cut into sections measuring 4" X 8" and then mounted on buckram (?); overall dimension is 32" X 24".
Description: The Adelbert Alden Gilley house at 12 Maple Lane, Map 6 – Lot 102, Southwest Harbor can be seen in the reflection of the window of the Ralph store.
Description: The "William B. Stevens" is at the left. The "Palestine" is in the background. Distant wharf on the right is the Sardine Cannery (marina) before the cannery was enlarged. The boat on the left is the Wm. Stevens. Wooden lobster pots are stacked on the boat behind it.