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5215Log Cabin
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Dwellings
Log cabin on western slope of Brown Mountain overlooking Somes Sound. Tracy family property.
  • Robert Lindsey Smallidge
  • 1920's-1930's
Description:
Log cabin on western slope of Brown Mountain overlooking Somes Sound. Tracy family property.
4641Sleeping Indian Lodge, Long Pond
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
Gordon Falt Photo 0821 b: view from front porch Photo 0821 c: scene from upstairs bedroom
  • Knowles Company
  • 1930's
  • 3 photographs
Description:
Gordon Falt Photo 0821 b: view from front porch Photo 0821 c: scene from upstairs bedroom
5039Stevens & Cooper sawmill, Long Pond
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Factory, Sawmill Building
Developed by William D. Hocker.
  • ca. 1890
Description:
Developed by William D. Hocker.
4311Waiting for bait: Mount Desert, 1890
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
Schooners in Somes Sound with dory and equipment in foreground. Matted. Used by S. E. Morison in his book on Mount Desert
  • 1951
Description:
Schooners in Somes Sound with dory and equipment in foreground. Matted. Used by S. E. Morison in his book on Mount Desert
2116Automobiles - The Mount Desert Town Meeting
  • Publication, Literary, Poem
  • Other, Poetry
  • Transportation, Automobile
Copy of a poem by Herbert Weir Smyth, Harvard professor, about the vote of residents of Mount Desert banning automobiles in the town. This was published August 23, 1913 in Bar Harbor Life. See also item 1564
  • Herbert Weir Smyth
  • 8/23/1913
  • 3
  • photocopy
Description:
Copy of a poem by Herbert Weir Smyth, Harvard professor, about the vote of residents of Mount Desert banning automobiles in the town. This was published August 23, 1913 in Bar Harbor Life. See also item 1564
2178Proposed Mount Desert Property Valuations
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Other, Land
Special inset section of Bar Harbor Times listing updated property valuations for residents of the Town of Mount Desert.
  • Green Mountain Railway
  • 8/17/2006
  • newspaper
Description:
Special inset section of Bar Harbor Times listing updated property valuations for residents of the Town of Mount Desert.
1732Program of the Garden Club of Mt. Desert
  • Document, Program
  • Organizations, Civic, Club
  • Places, Garden
Description of the annual summer garden tour in Bar Harbor, Northeast Harbor and Bar Harbor with many of the gardens the work of Beatrix Farrand.
  • 1934
  • pages 34-47
  • photocopy
Description:
Description of the annual summer garden tour in Bar Harbor, Northeast Harbor and Bar Harbor with many of the gardens the work of Beatrix Farrand.
2232Bar Harbor Times articles: Police Department Events: Mount Desert
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Events, Civic
  • Organizations, Civic, Municipal
Newspaper articles: - Memorial Day Parade, 1977 - Northeast Harbor, Maitland Murphy speech to Echo Lake Association, 1977 - Police Policy Manual, 1975 - Mount Desert Ambulance Service, 1975
  • 7/28/1977
  • newspaper
Description:
Newspaper articles: - Memorial Day Parade, 1977 - Northeast Harbor, Maitland Murphy speech to Echo Lake Association, 1977 - Police Policy Manual, 1975 - Mount Desert Ambulance Service, 1975
5940Echo Lake Camps, Mount Desert, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Lake
  • Structures, Dwelling, Camp House
Postcard of small dock on Echo Lake with several small boats. Advertisement for "Echo Lake Camps", E. T. Richardson, proprietor, on back.
  • 1 postcard
Description:
Postcard of small dock on Echo Lake with several small boats. Advertisement for "Echo Lake Camps", E. T. Richardson, proprietor, on back.
6006Surf on Ocean Drive, Mount Desert
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Shore
  • 2 postcards
1564Editor's Notes: Automobiles The Mount Desert Town Meeting
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Other, Poetry
  • Transportation, Automobile
August 6, 1959 A poem written by professor H. W. Smyth, summer resident of Seal Harbor, Maine in response to a town meeting regarding automobiles on Mount Desert Island.
  • 1959
  • 1 article, 2 photograph copies
  • newspaper, photograph copy
Description:
August 6, 1959 A poem written by professor H. W. Smyth, summer resident of Seal Harbor, Maine in response to a town meeting regarding automobiles on Mount Desert Island.
1613Mount Desert Quarterly
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • Places, Town
Newsletter of the Mt. Desert Summer Residents Association about school funding formula, jet skis, Steve Smith's ownership of take-out restaurant in Seal Harbor.
  • Spring 1999
  • 4
  • pamphlet
Description:
Newsletter of the Mt. Desert Summer Residents Association about school funding formula, jet skis, Steve Smith's ownership of take-out restaurant in Seal Harbor.
4810Assortment of Fleet pictures
  • Image, Photograph
  • Organizations
  • Places, Harbor
  • Vessels, Boat
Northeast Harbor Fleet and Harbor. Large Photo: A boats racing 1. Photo 11546 b: Yacht at Clifton Dock 3. Photo 1156 d: A or B boats at the start of a race. The race committee boat is the Sparrow (to the left at the start line) 4. Photo 1156 e: Northeast Harbor Fleet August Cruise at Anchor, Blue Hill. 5. Photo 1156 f: Harbor from Harborside 7. Photo 1156 h: Herreshoff yacht #1227 Tsana. It is a 40 square meter class racing yacht (1933-1934). (Information courtesy of Mr. Kenneth Rolt, May 2020) 8. Photo 1156 i: Thirty square meters racing, 5 boats, NEH #5 white hull astern. Leading two boats have dark hulls, mid two seem light mahogany stain, last boast has white hull (could be US20 Bacardi?). 11. Photo 1156 l: Clifton Dock 12. Photo 1156 m: Gilpatrick Cove looking south at Greening Island 13. Photo 1156 n: View north from Clifton Dock, note the fuel barge and airplane at the dock 14. Photo 1156 o: View southeast from Clifton Dock 16. Photo 1156 q: Looking north towards Northeast Harbor, with two thirty square meters. Aquila NEH #2 leads John Tyssowsky's Va Lee #1. Aquila has a light hull, Va Lee a dark hull. Note the "30 M" near the sail head 18. Photo 1156 s: Seal Harbor looking south, Dane dock to the left, Dane yacht Ara at anchor 19. Photo 1156 t: Thirty square meter 20. Photo 1156 u: View southeast from Clifton Dock, Bear Island in the background, Milliken dock to the right 21. Photo 1156 v: Racing in the great harbor, north of Sutton 23. Photo 1156 x: Seal Harbor looking south, Dane dock to the left, Dane yacht Ara at anchor 24. Photo 1156 y: View south from Clifton Dock, Milliken dock to the right 25. Photo 1156 z: View north from Clifton dock. Fleet committee boat Sparrow to the left
  • Knowles Company
  • 1930's
  • 26 photographs
Description:
Northeast Harbor Fleet and Harbor. Large Photo: A boats racing 1. Photo 11546 b: Yacht at Clifton Dock 3. Photo 1156 d: A or B boats at the start of a race. The race committee boat is the Sparrow (to the left at the start line) 4. Photo 1156 e: Northeast Harbor Fleet August Cruise at Anchor, Blue Hill. 5. Photo 1156 f: Harbor from Harborside 7. Photo 1156 h: Herreshoff yacht #1227 Tsana. It is a 40 square meter class racing yacht (1933-1934). (Information courtesy of Mr. Kenneth Rolt, May 2020) 8. Photo 1156 i: Thirty square meters racing, 5 boats, NEH #5 white hull astern. Leading two boats have dark hulls, mid two seem light mahogany stain, last boast has white hull (could be US20 Bacardi?). 11. Photo 1156 l: Clifton Dock 12. Photo 1156 m: Gilpatrick Cove looking south at Greening Island 13. Photo 1156 n: View north from Clifton Dock, note the fuel barge and airplane at the dock 14. Photo 1156 o: View southeast from Clifton Dock 16. Photo 1156 q: Looking north towards Northeast Harbor, with two thirty square meters. Aquila NEH #2 leads John Tyssowsky's Va Lee #1. Aquila has a light hull, Va Lee a dark hull. Note the "30 M" near the sail head 18. Photo 1156 s: Seal Harbor looking south, Dane dock to the left, Dane yacht Ara at anchor 19. Photo 1156 t: Thirty square meter 20. Photo 1156 u: View southeast from Clifton Dock, Bear Island in the background, Milliken dock to the right 21. Photo 1156 v: Racing in the great harbor, north of Sutton 23. Photo 1156 x: Seal Harbor looking south, Dane dock to the left, Dane yacht Ara at anchor 24. Photo 1156 y: View south from Clifton Dock, Milliken dock to the right 25. Photo 1156 z: View north from Clifton dock. Fleet committee boat Sparrow to the left [show more]
5554Mount Desert scenes
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Places
People and places in Northeast Harbor, Seal Harbor. Wharves, schooners, family picnics, scenic overviews, homes and businesses. 2 discs (145 photos and 75 photos). In Dropbox.
  • Kathy Gates McCoy
  • 220 photographs
  • disc with digital images
Description:
People and places in Northeast Harbor, Seal Harbor. Wharves, schooners, family picnics, scenic overviews, homes and businesses. 2 discs (145 photos and 75 photos). In Dropbox.
4472Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop Sargent
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
Photograph depicts Mr. Winthrop Sargent, Northeast Harbor, and Mrs. Winthrop Sargent, Sutton Island.
  • 1914
Description:
Photograph depicts Mr. Winthrop Sargent, Northeast Harbor, and Mrs. Winthrop Sargent, Sutton Island.
4375Harbor Brook
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Stream
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. "I am not sure whether this is what is now called Little Harbor Brook on Peabody Drive, or what is called Asticou Stream, which feeds through what is now the Azalea Garden." Tom Eliot
  • Samuel A. Eliot
  • 1881
  • 1 photograph
Description:
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. "I am not sure whether this is what is now called Little Harbor Brook on Peabody Drive, or what is called Asticou Stream, which feeds through what is now the Azalea Garden." Tom Eliot
4377Head of Somes Sound
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Sound
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. "As far as I am able to tell by carrying the picture to the site, a combination of reforestation and the cutting down of a hill to make the intersection of routes 3 and 233, this photo is not quite possible to replicate. The poles carried telegraph wires." Tom Eliot
  • Samuel A. Eliot
  • 1881
  • 1 photograph
Description:
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. "As far as I am able to tell by carrying the picture to the site, a combination of reforestation and the cutting down of a hill to make the intersection of routes 3 and 233, this photo is not quite possible to replicate. The poles carried telegraph wires." Tom Eliot
4378Road on east side of Somes Sound
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Road
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. "Today called Sound Drive, route 3/198. This view is no longer possible because of reforestation." Tom Eliot Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
  • Samuel A. Eliot
  • 1881
Description:
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. "Today called Sound Drive, route 3/198. This view is no longer possible because of reforestation." Tom Eliot Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
4871Farm Scene
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Landscape
Early farm scene on Mount Desert Island - most probably around Northeast Harbor.
  • Isaac T. Moore
  • ca. 1890
  • 1 panoramic photograph
Description:
Early farm scene on Mount Desert Island - most probably around Northeast Harbor.
2262Northeast and Seal Harbor
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Places, Town
Photo booklets of Northeast and Seal Harbor, ca. 1900s Red and tan paper booklets with photographs and narratives. See also photo 0372 - Item 4362
  • ca. 1903
  • 2 booklets
  • fragile
Description:
Photo booklets of Northeast and Seal Harbor, ca. 1900s Red and tan paper booklets with photographs and narratives. See also photo 0372 - Item 4362
1469Mount Desert Bicentennial Art Posters
  • Document, Advertising, Poster
  • Events, Civic
  • Object, Sign
  • Organizations, School Institution
Mt. Desert Elementary School winners of student art contest to celebrate the Bicentennial of Mount Desert. Winners were (a) Lelah Cole (6th grade), (b) Monica Hanson (grade 4/5), (c) Erin Morse Fernald (grade 3). Event date was August 5th 1989 in Northeast Harbor.
  • 1989
  • 3 posters
  • drawings
Description:
Mt. Desert Elementary School winners of student art contest to celebrate the Bicentennial of Mount Desert. Winners were (a) Lelah Cole (6th grade), (b) Monica Hanson (grade 4/5), (c) Erin Morse Fernald (grade 3). Event date was August 5th 1989 in Northeast Harbor.
6949Aerial Photographs - Line 6
  • Image, Photograph
  • Other, Aerial
  • Places, Town
Aerial photographs of the Town of Mount Desert. Size: 3ft x 3ft Scale: 1:9,600
  • James W. Sewall Company, Old Town
  • 4-14-1987
  • 5
Description:
Aerial photographs of the Town of Mount Desert. Size: 3ft x 3ft Scale: 1:9,600
6945Aerial Photographs - Line 2
  • Image, Photograph
  • Other, Aerial
  • Places, Town
Aerial photographs of the Town of Mount Desert. Size: 3ft x 3ft. Scale: 1:9,600 Other composite sizes and scales, dated 4-22-87
  • James W. Sewall Company, Old Town
  • 4-14-1987
  • 9 + 3
Description:
Aerial photographs of the Town of Mount Desert. Size: 3ft x 3ft. Scale: 1:9,600 Other composite sizes and scales, dated 4-22-87
6948Aerial Photographs - Line 5
  • Image, Photograph
  • Other, Aerial
  • Places, Town
Aerial photographs of the Town of Mount Desert. Size: 3ft x 3ft Scale: 1:9,600
  • James W. Sewall Company, Old Town
  • 4-14-1987
  • 9
Description:
Aerial photographs of the Town of Mount Desert. Size: 3ft x 3ft Scale: 1:9,600
6946Aerial Photographs - Line 3
  • Image, Photograph
  • Other, Aerial
  • Places, Town
Aerial photographs of the Town of Mount Desert. Size: 3ft x 3ft Scale: 1:9,600
  • James W. Sewall Company, Old Town
  • 4-14-1987
  • 12
Description:
Aerial photographs of the Town of Mount Desert. Size: 3ft x 3ft Scale: 1:9,600