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You searched for: Date: 1980s
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
The Story of Acadia National Park
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Acadia Publishing Company
  • 1985
The Story of Acadia National Park
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Wendell Gilley in front of new Wendell Gilley Museum building
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Structures, Civic, Exhibition, Museum
  • Adams - Richard Adams
  • 1981-02
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Wendell Gilley at construction site of new museum building
Nina Gormley, February 1981
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Adams - Richard Adams
  • 1981-02
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Nina Gormley, February 1981
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
Nina Z. Gormley with sound recording gear in Wendell Gilley's workshop
Gilley: Portrait of a Bird Carver
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Recording, Video Recording
  • Object, Woodworking
  • Other, Wood carvings
  • Adams, Richard W.
  • 1981
Gilley: Portrait of a Bird Carver
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
A film on DVD about Wendell Gilley, master carver from Southwest Harbor. Title: Gilley: Portrait of a Bird Carver. A documentary story filmed during the construction of the museum built in his honor in 1981. Film by Richard W. Adams, with a 2004 update on the 25th anniversary of the Museum and the centennial of the birth of Wendell Gilley. Running time of 25 minutes.
Karl Mellon Room, sign and dedication
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Object, Sign
  • Object, Sign
  • Alice Smith
  • 1986
Brooke Astor
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Andrew Eccles
  • late 1980's ?
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Brooke Astor
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Reprint of photograph appearing in ? magazine of Brooke Astor standing in garden at Cove End in Northeast Harbor. Found among possessions of Monica Estes by her friend Bonnie Adams 6/2010.
Allied Whale
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Nature, Animals
  • Places, Island
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • Ann Rivers, Steven Mullane
  • 1984
  • Mount Desert Rock
Allied Whale
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Article about the development and research of the cetacean program "Allied Whale" with its field station on Mount Desert Rock, run by Ann Rivers and Steve Mullane.
Two Women's Legacy - Jekyll and Farrand
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • People
  • Anne Kozak
  • 1989
Description:
Professional friendship of landscape architects Gertrude Jeckyll and Beatrix Farrand and their inspirational designs in gardens in the United States and England.
Beatrix Farrand
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Anne Raver
  • 1985
Beatrix Farrand
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Article about Beatrix Farrand, landscaper. Has an accompanying Photograph copy of a letter to the editor from the March 8, 1985 Bar Harbor Times about the article.
Beatrix Farrand
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Anne Raver
  • 1985
Beatrix Farrand
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Biography of Beatrix Jones Farrand including her landscape philosophy, her education, and descriptions of several of her designs (Dunbarton Oaks; The Aerie). Published in "Horticulture" February 1985.
The Redoubtable Lady of Reef Point
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Anne Raver
  • 1985
  • Bar Harbor
The Redoubtable Lady of Reef Point
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Biography of Beatrix Farrand with focus on the development Reef Point gardens, her summer home in Bar Harbor. Published in Down East Magazine in July 1985.
The Redoubtable Lady of Reef Point
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Places, Garden
  • Anne Raver
  • 1985
  • Bar Harbor
The Redoubtable Lady of Reef Point
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Short biography of Beatrix Farrand - her family background, her education, her focus on her Reef Point Gardens in Bar Harbor, and her landscape projects, including the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller garden in Seal Harbor. Published in Down East Magazine, July 1985.
Seal Harbor post office, 1986
Tremont Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Other, Mail Delivery
  • Other, Post Offices
  • Other, Postmasters
  • Other, Seal Harbor, Mount Desert, Hancock County, Maine
  • Other, Stamps
  • Arnold Krommenohl
  • 10/20/1986
Seal Harbor post office, 1986
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
Photo of Seal Harbor post office, 1986
Otter Creek post office, 1986
Tremont Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Other, Mail Delivery
  • Other, Otter Creek, Hancock County, Maine
  • Other, Post Offices
  • Other, Postmasters
  • Other, Stamps
  • Arnold Krommenohl
  • 10/20/1986
Otter Creek post office, 1986
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
Otter Creek post office, 1986
Northeast Harbor post office, 1986
Tremont Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Arnold Krommenohl
  • 10/20/1986
Northeast Harbor post office, 1986
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
Northeast Harbor post office, 1986
Photograph of Hulls Cove Post office
Tremont Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Other, Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine
  • Other, Hulls Cove, Hancock County, Maine
  • Other, Post offices
  • Arnold Krommenohl
  • 1986
  • Hulls Cove, Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine
Photograph of Hulls Cove Post office
Tremont Historical Society
Description:
Photograph of Hulls Cove Post office
Such a Frail Bark
College of the Atlantic
  • Document
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • Aronow, Bethany
  • 1983
  • In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
Such a Frail Bark
College of the Atlantic
Description:
During the fall of 1982, the COA Oral History Workshop collected and prepared oral history interviews documenting COA's founding and early years. For her senior project, Bethany Arownow '83 edited these interviews into a booklet entitled "Such a Frail Bark". The book is fascinating and contains photographs of Kaelber Hall and people instrumental in COA's birth and life.
Reverend Morrill, Mrs. Thatcher and Mrs. Fay
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Arthur Wilber
  • 1980
Mount Desert to Katahdin Bird's Eye View, painting
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Art, Painting
  • Places, Island
  • Augustus D. Phillips
  • 1982
Scott Allen Worcester Winning the Southwest Harbor Public Library Auction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events
  • People
  • Avery - David E. Avery
  • 1983-08-31
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
"Landing The Prize… Scott Worcester of Southwest Harbor receives congratulations from Sallie Hinckley of the Southwest Harbor [Public] Library after winning an acre of land in the recent fund-raising effort of the library and the Harbor House. The 20-year old business administration student at University of Maine at Orono says he plans to hang onto the land, which was donated by Conley Worcester of Southwest Harbor. Margo Stanley, at left, holds the copy of Thornton’s History of Somesville and Southwest Harbor that was won by the Southwest Harbor branch of the First National Bank of Bar Harbor. The second prize, a free, round-trip on Bar Harbor Airlines was won by Vaughn Marshall of Machias. The raffle raised $9,400 to be divided between the Harbor House and the library." – The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, September 8, 1983, Sec. 1, p. 13. [show more]
Letter to Nina Gormley from Gertrude Bancroft
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Places, Garden
  • Bancroft - Gertrude Storey Bancroft (1923-2002)
  • 1989
Description:
This letter is a reply to the Gilley Museum Director's request for a garden to be donated by the Garden Club of Mount Desert. It also mentions a carving of three gulls on a driftwood based that Mrs. Bancroft commissioned from Wendell Gilley.
Somes Memorial Bridge
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Building
  • Structures, Transportation, Bridge
  • Bangor Daily News
  • c 1980s
  • Somesville, Maine
Somes Memorial Bridge
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Thaddeus Shepley Somes Memorial Bridge in Somesville. Mount Desert Island Historical Society Selectmen’s Building Museum to the left. Winter scene, ice on stream. 2 copies (a&b)
Historical Society Building Under Way
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Other, Museums
  • Bangor Daily News
  • 1981
Historical Society Building Under Way
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Newspaper clipping from "Bangor Daily News" of July 13, 1981 describing construction of new museum building for the MDI Historical Society on Rte. 102 in Somesville. The building and its planned use are described.
Kaelber Hall, architectural drawing, September 24, 1987
College of the Atlantic
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • Structures, Institutional, School
  • Bangor Roofing & Sheet Metal Co.
  • 1987-09-24
  • Bar Harbor
  • In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
Description:
Partial floor plans and elevation.
Tremont, a Small Town Experiences Growing Pressure
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Development
  • Other, Economic & social conditions
  • Other, Somesville
  • Other, Southwest Harbor
  • Other, Tremont
  • Other, Trenton
  • Bar Harbor Times
  • 1987
Tremont, a Small Town Experiences Growing Pressure
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Supplement to the Bar Harbor Times, each including several artices, pertaining to development in the towns of Mt. Desert Island and Trenton. Tremont, a Small Town Experiences Growing Pressure Previously archived as object Id 012.FIC.043.4