Description: A photograph of the Mountain View Inn before being moved and becoming the Historic Society. This building was originally used as a restaurant where the guest would eat upstairs and the food was prepared downstairs and brought up by a dumbwaiter. After the closing of the Inn the building was then used as a workshop. By 2004, the Mountain View Inn found a new home just up the road from its original location, and the Historical Society has been using it ever since. [show more]
Description: Documentary film of the Hancock County 4-H Dairy Club developing dairy stock in conjunction with the University of Maine Extension Service & Hancock County Farm Bureau.
Description: Folder of fish weir or trap licenses or applications during the period 1944 - 1951 for: Francis G. Fernald George R. Hadlock Joseph E. Spurling Ann Frothingham Guild Theodore J. Spurling (Scans of Town of Cranberry Isles, part of 2016.334.2100)
Description: Two fire engines parked in front of the Municipal Building, Northeast Harbor. A bus is parked the left of the Municipal Building, parked closer to Manchester Brothers' Garage. The truck on the left may be the Northeast Harbor Fire Company's 1926 Maxim Pumper, while that on the right is the ladder truck W.S. Grant, a 1927 American La France. This photograph was taken following the remodeling of the the Municipal Building, which was completed in 1934. [show more]
Description: Carlton Taylor standing in front of the Municipal Building, Northeast Harbor, with the vehicles of the Northeast Harbor Fire Company lined up.
Description: In 1892 the ladies of Southwest Harbor gathered together to raise money for land upon which to build a library building and then reported how they raised their dollar..The Dollar Social was the first fundraising event held for the Southwest Harbor Public Library and the poem describing it was famous in the community for many years.
Description: Letterpress printed broadside. The Northeast Harbor Vaudeville Show of 1961 will be presented August 11 at Mt Desert High School Auditorium at 8:30 o'clock.
Description: President-elect of Northeastern University, Asa S. Knowles typescript of the dedication of the Science Laboratories at Mount Desert High School in 1959.
Description: 2 newsletters: Summer 2005, Spring 2007 Town of Mount Desert newsletter featuring articles on Broadband internet service, schools, public works, fire department, and summer residents association.
Description: Service of celebration at the Memorial Church at Harvard University honoring the Reverend Francis Greenwood Peabody (1847-1936) for one hundred years of voluntary chapel. The service included the dedication of a plaque. Brief biography.
Description: Exhibit at the Northeast Harbor Library, "Arms of the Past", provides a fascinating look at the firearms & other artifacts that shaped & changed local history.
Description: Mount Desert Island Historical Society collaborates with other island organizations to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the island. File contains brochures and articles of the planned events.
Description: Book made as a guide to the gun exhibit "Arms of the Past" in March 1999 at the Northeast Harbor Library coordinated by Bob Pyle. The book lists and describes the exhibits, gives a short history of firearms, and has Q and A's.
Description: Remarks of Asa Knowles at the unveiling of a plaque in memory of Belle S. Knowles, first librarian at the Northeast Harbor Library. Brief biography included.
Description: Bob Pyle's remarks to the Mount Desert residents, trustees, staff and family at the Library's "Open House" in Oct. 2011 honoring his 40+ years of service to the library.
Description: Announcement & checklist of a Farnsworth Art Museum outreach exhibition held at the Northeast Harbor Library July-August 1994 featuring four leading printmakers inspired by Maine.
Description: Eighth-grader is sole participant in ceremony at Little Cranberry Island's graduation. She has spent her childhood on the island. She will attend Concord Academy next year.
Description: Historical address of Dr. Horace Leavitt on the 100th anniversary of the Somesville Union Meeting House. He traces early history of Somesville and many families. Bar Harbor Times, September 19, 1940.