Presented by Jerome Knowles. Known as the Northeast Harbor Village Library. This facility was used after the old library and reading room would close for the winter.
Description: Presented by Jerome Knowles. Known as the Northeast Harbor Village Library. This facility was used after the old library and reading room would close for the winter.
History of Northeast Harbor Library & Reading Room, a picture of proposed building, articles of the Maine Library Association, newspaper clipping & a picture postcard.
Description: History of Northeast Harbor Library & Reading Room, a picture of proposed building, articles of the Maine Library Association, newspaper clipping & a picture postcard.
B/W Photograph of the circulation desk area at the Northeast Harbor Library (older building). This photograph is also a postcard dated September 25, 1982.
Description: B/W Photograph of the circulation desk area at the Northeast Harbor Library (older building). This photograph is also a postcard dated September 25, 1982.
A paper delivered before the Woman's Literary Club of Northeast Harbor regarding the first Northeast Harbor Library. The original manuscript in in the Woman's Literary Club Collection.
Description: A paper delivered before the Woman's Literary Club of Northeast Harbor regarding the first Northeast Harbor Library. The original manuscript in in the Woman's Literary Club Collection.
Framed resolution acknowledging the retirement of Mrs. Rodman Fay as Chairman of the Northeast Harbor Library. Designed and executed by Charles Savage.
Description: Framed resolution acknowledging the retirement of Mrs. Rodman Fay as Chairman of the Northeast Harbor Library. Designed and executed by Charles Savage.
Letters, by class, of the Mt. Desert Elementary School students thanking Mrs. Astor for the addition of the children's room at the Northeast Harbor Library.
Description: Letters, by class, of the Mt. Desert Elementary School students thanking Mrs. Astor for the addition of the children's room at the Northeast Harbor Library.
Julia married George Manchester and was Northeast Harbor branch manager of the Bar Harbor Trust into the 1970's. Note library's Manchester collection of Photographs. R. R. Pyle 6/17/96
Description: Julia married George Manchester and was Northeast Harbor branch manager of the Bar Harbor Trust into the 1970's. Note library's Manchester collection of Photographs. R. R. Pyle 6/17/96
Description: Agnes Milliken's notes for a speech at library trustee's meeting on the retirement of Mrs. Belmont and succession of Mrs. Fay as Trustee Chairman.
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: 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.
Architect Roger Griswold had his own conception of what a library in a Maine landscape should appear. From a Reading Room, the new library in Northeast Harbor was created.
Description: Architect Roger Griswold had his own conception of what a library in a Maine landscape should appear. From a Reading Room, the new library in Northeast Harbor was created.
Letters and signed petitions forms from community members against the demolition of the old library and construction of a new library building. Confidential materials
Description: Letters and signed petitions forms from community members against the demolition of the old library and construction of a new library building. Confidential materials
Three letters from Stella Hill to Gertrude Fay regarding material in the Northeast Harbor Library with reference to the Woman's Literary Club's work on local history topics.
Description: Three letters from Stella Hill to Gertrude Fay regarding material in the Northeast Harbor Library with reference to the Woman's Literary Club's work on local history topics.