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1722Mount Desert Island Facts
  • Document, List
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places, Island
...General facts, statistics, historical and political information of Mount Desert Island...
  • 4
Mount Desert Island Facts
Item:
  • 1722   
Type:
  • Document, List
Subject:
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places, Island
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0234
Location:
  • General Collection Box 7
Pages:
  • 4
Description:
...General facts, statistics, historical and political information of Mount Desert Island...
2264Preliminary Timeline Mount Desert History
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Other, History
  • Places, Island
...An historical timeline of Mount Desert from 1590 to 2001. See also Item 1971...
  • Memorial Service for Robert R. Pyle
  • 26 typed sheets
  • paper
  • good
Preliminary Timeline Mount Desert History
Item:
  • 2264   
Type:
  • Document, Other Documents
Subject:
  • Other, History
  • Places, Island
Creator:
  • Memorial Service for Robert R. Pyle
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0788
Location:
  • General Collection Box 25
Pages:
  • 26 typed sheets
Medium:
  • paper
Condition:
  • good
Description:
...An historical timeline of Mount Desert from 1590 to 2001. See also Item 1971...
1960Towns of Mount Desert Island
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Town
...It also gives a more detailed description of the Town of Mount Desert & services offered...
  • Memorial Service for Robert R. Pyle
  • 1
  • typescript
Towns of Mount Desert Island
Item:
  • 1960   
Type:
  • Document, Other Documents
Subject:
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Town
Creator:
  • Memorial Service for Robert R. Pyle
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0473
Location:
  • General Collection Box 16
Pages:
  • 1
Medium:
  • typescript
Description:
...It also gives a more detailed description of the Town of Mount Desert & services offered...
6488Records of Mount Desert Industry 1850 and 1870
  • Document, Government
  • Places
...Industry in Mount Desert in 1850 & 1870...
  • Thomas Paine
  • 6
  • photocopy
Records of Mount Desert Industry 1850 and 1870
Item:
  • 6488   
Type:
  • Document, Government
Subject:
  • Places
Creator:
  • Thomas Paine
Collection:
  • Town Records
Location:
  • Shelf 2G1
Pages:
  • 6
Medium:
  • photocopy
Description:
...Industry in Mount Desert in 1850 & 1870...
6925Mount Desert Island
  • Image, Print, Planographic Print, Lithograph
  • Places, Island
  • Maine Central R. R. Co.
Mount Desert Island
Item:
  • 6925   
Type:
  • Image, Print, Planographic Print, Lithograph
Subject:
  • Places, Island
Creator:
  • Maine Central R. R. Co.
Collection:
  • Library Items
Object ID:
  • none
Location:
  • Downstairs Study
1873Adventures on Mount Desert
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Businesses, Tourism
  • Places, Island
Buckboards and down-home cooking were the chief creature comforts for island visitors in the decade before the great hotels and cottages began to crowd the scene. Published in Down East Magazine, July 1995
  • John Cole
  • Jul-95
  • pages 74-75, 88-92
  • photocopy
Adventures on Mount Desert
Item:
  • 1873   
Type:
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
Subject:
  • Businesses, Tourism
  • Places, Island
Creator:
  • John Cole
Date:
  • Jul-95
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0387
Location:
  • General Collection Box 13
Pages:
  • pages 74-75, 88-92
Medium:
  • photocopy
Description:
Buckboards and down-home cooking were the chief creature comforts for island visitors in the decade before the great hotels and cottages began to crowd the scene. Published in Down East Magazine, July 1995
6906View of Mount Desert Island
  • Image, Art, Painting
  • Places, Landscape
Oil on canvas.
  • A. Phillips
View of Mount Desert Island
Item:
  • 6906   
Type:
  • Image, Art, Painting
Subject:
  • Places, Landscape
Creator:
  • A. Phillips
Collection:
  • Library Items
Location:
  • Upstairs Hallway
Description:
Oil on canvas.
3496Mount Desert from the Sea, painting
  • Image, Art, Painting
  • Places, Landscape
  • Sara Weeks Peabody
Mount Desert from the Sea, painting
Item:
  • 3496   
Type:
  • Image, Art, Painting
Subject:
  • Places, Landscape
Creator:
  • Sara Weeks Peabody
Collection:
  • Library Items
Object ID:
  • none
Location:
  • Main Lobby
7345Northeast Harbor
  • Reference
  • Places, Town
...The village of Northeast Harbor is situated on the southern end of Mount Desert Island at the entrance to Somes Sound and it is part of the Town of Mount...Desert...
Northeast Harbor
Item:
  • 7345   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Places, Town
Description:
...The village of Northeast Harbor is situated on the southern end of Mount Desert Island at the entrance to Somes Sound and it is part of the Town of Mount...Desert...
7278Somesville
  • Reference
  • Places, Town
...Somesville is the earliest village of the town of Mount Desert on Mount Desert Island in southeastern Maine...
Somesville
Item:
  • 7278   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Places, Town
Description:
...Somesville is the earliest village of the town of Mount Desert on Mount Desert Island in southeastern Maine...
7231Roy Salisbury Collection
  • Reference
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • People
  • Places
...Photographs: Stetson School (item 6997) Gilman High School (item 6998) Ballard Hill School (item 6999) Mount Desert High School (item 7000) Clifton...Parker Family writings Parker Family plays and writings Cottages for Rent, 1929 (item 7286) Letter from Northeast Harbor Water Co., 1904 Future of Mount...Desert Island by Charles W...Eliot (see also item 6127) Mount Desert High School and Mount Desert Elementary School specifications, letters from architects & contractors, additions...
  • papers, photographs, objects
Roy Salisbury Collection
Item:
  • 7231   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • People
  • Places
Collection:
  • Roy Salisbury Collection
Object ID:
  • Roy Salisbury Collection
Location:
  • 4B4
Medium:
  • papers, photographs, objects
Description:
...Photographs: Stetson School (item 6997) Gilman High School (item 6998) Ballard Hill School (item 6999) Mount Desert High School (item 7000) Clifton...Parker Family writings Parker Family plays and writings Cottages for Rent, 1929 (item 7286) Letter from Northeast Harbor Water Co., 1904 Future of Mount...Desert Island by Charles W...Eliot (see also item 6127) Mount Desert High School and Mount Desert Elementary School specifications, letters from architects & contractors, additions...
1948Town of Mount Desert Town Meeting and 1990 Budget
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Organizations, Civic, Municipal
  • Places, Town
An explanation of 1990 Budget and March 5th Town Meeting, including The Warrant, a Comprehensive Plan Committee, Sewer Use Fees & Property Tax Exemptions.
  • 2
  • typescript
Town of Mount Desert Town Meeting and 1990 Budget
Item:
  • 1948   
Type:
  • Document, Other Documents
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic, Municipal
  • Places, Town
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0461
Location:
  • General Collection Box 15
Pages:
  • 2
Medium:
  • typescript
Description:
An explanation of 1990 Budget and March 5th Town Meeting, including The Warrant, a Comprehensive Plan Committee, Sewer Use Fees & Property Tax Exemptions.
2119Petition to Senate & House of Representatives of Maine
  • Document, Request, Petition
  • Places, Island
  • Transportation, Automobile
...Petition of and others, for a regulation for the of Automobiles in the town of Mount Desert...
  • 1
  • typescript
Petition to Senate & House of Representatives of Maine
Item:
  • 2119   
Type:
  • Document, Request, Petition
Subject:
  • Places, Island
  • Transportation, Automobile
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0633
Location:
  • General Collection Box 20
Pages:
  • 1
Medium:
  • typescript
Description:
...Petition of and others, for a regulation for the of Automobiles in the town of Mount Desert...
1987Ellsworth American Newspaper Index
  • Publication, Directory
  • Places, Town
...Notes about Mount Desert Island towns taken from the Ellsworth American newspaper from 1901 to 1910.newspapers...
  • 105
  • typescript
Ellsworth American Newspaper Index
Item:
  • 1987   
Type:
  • Publication, Directory
Subject:
  • Places, Town
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0500
Location:
  • General Collection Box 16
Pages:
  • 105
Medium:
  • typescript
Description:
...Notes about Mount Desert Island towns taken from the Ellsworth American newspaper from 1901 to 1910.newspapers...
6022Roy Salisbury Collection
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Photograph Album
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • People
  • Places
...Photographs: Stetson School (item 6997) Gilman High School (item 6998) Ballard Hill School (item 6999) Mount Desert High School (item 7000) Clifton...discharge papers Parker Family writings Parker Family plays and writings Cottages for Rent, 1929 Letter from Northeast Harbor Water Co., 1904 Future of Mount...Desert Island by Charles W...Eliot Mount Desert High School and Mount Desert Elementary School specifications, letters from architects & contractors, additions, building notes...
  • papers, photographs, objects
Roy Salisbury Collection
Item:
  • 6022   
Type:
  • Document, Memorabilia, Album, Photograph Album
Subject:
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • People
  • Places
Collection:
  • Roy Salisbury Collection
Object ID:
  • Roy Salisbury Collection
Location:
  • 4B4
Medium:
  • papers, photographs, objects
Description:
...Photographs: Stetson School (item 6997) Gilman High School (item 6998) Ballard Hill School (item 6999) Mount Desert High School (item 7000) Clifton...discharge papers Parker Family writings Parker Family plays and writings Cottages for Rent, 1929 Letter from Northeast Harbor Water Co., 1904 Future of Mount...Desert Island by Charles W...Eliot Mount Desert High School and Mount Desert Elementary School specifications, letters from architects & contractors, additions, building notes...
6979GXS Collection - Maps and Blueprints
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Town
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
...Folder 6 A Map of Mount Desert Island, issued by the Mt. Desert Chamber of Commerce, 1938. Illustrations and descriptive text on verso...Folder 6a A Map of Mount Desert Island, issued by the Chamber of Commerce of Bar Harbor, Mount Desert and Southwest Harbor, 1950...
GXS Collection - Maps and Blueprints
Item:
  • 6979   
Type:
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
Subject:
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Town
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
Collection:
  • GXS Collection
Object ID:
  • GXS
Location:
  • Shelf 4B4
Description:
...Folder 6 A Map of Mount Desert Island, issued by the Mt. Desert Chamber of Commerce, 1938. Illustrations and descriptive text on verso...Folder 6a A Map of Mount Desert Island, issued by the Chamber of Commerce of Bar Harbor, Mount Desert and Southwest Harbor, 1950...
2674GXS Collection
  • Collection
  • Businesses, Lodging Business
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Park
...This collection is an assortment of ephemera relating to coastal Maine, Maine history, and inns, motels, hotels and homes on Mount Desert Island and in...
GXS Collection
Item:
  • 2674   
Type:
  • Collection
Subject:
  • Businesses, Lodging Business
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Park
Collection:
  • GXS Collection
Object ID:
  • GXS
Location:
  • Shelf 4B4
Description:
...This collection is an assortment of ephemera relating to coastal Maine, Maine history, and inns, motels, hotels and homes on Mount Desert Island and in...

File Attachment:
GXS Collection Finding Aid-August 2023.pdf
…, Mount Desert and Southwest Harbor, 1950. …Steamer Norumbega from Mount Desert Ferry to Manset, ME 80. (a+b) Islehurst, Mount Desert Bridge 81. Great Head, Bar Harbor, Maine 82. …Desert, Maine 83. Atlantic Comber, Mount Desert Island, Maine 84. Boat Shop at Bass Harbor, Mount Desert Island, Maine 85. …Jordan Pond, Mount Desert, Maine (Chas. A. Townsend) 108. Stereoview Schooner Head 109. Stereoview Green Mt. House, Mount Desert 110.
1659Conservation and National Parks
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Places, Park
...Typed pages of Mabel Cromwell's presentation of a talk on National Parks, including Acadia National Park, to members of the Garden Club of Mount Desert...
  • Mabel Cromwell
  • Aug-51
  • 6
  • typescript
Conservation and National Parks
Item:
  • 1659   
Type:
  • Document, Other Documents
Subject:
  • Places, Park
Creator:
  • Mabel Cromwell
Date:
  • Aug-51
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0171
Location:
  • General Collection Box 5
Pages:
  • 6
Medium:
  • typescript
Description:
...Typed pages of Mabel Cromwell's presentation of a talk on National Parks, including Acadia National Park, to members of the Garden Club of Mount Desert...
2031Lure of the Maine Coast
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Places, Island
...Short biography of Fitz Hugh Lane and an excerpt from William Witherle's diary of a sailing trip with Lane and 4 other men from Castine to Mount Desert...
  • William Witherle
  • Oct-88
  • 5
  • magazine
Lure of the Maine Coast
Item:
  • 2031   
Type:
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
Subject:
  • People
  • Places, Island
Creator:
  • William Witherle
Date:
  • Oct-88
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0543
Location:
  • General Collection Box 17
Pages:
  • 5
Medium:
  • magazine
Description:
...Short biography of Fitz Hugh Lane and an excerpt from William Witherle's diary of a sailing trip with Lane and 4 other men from Castine to Mount Desert...
6982GXS Collection - Books and Souvenir Booklets
  • Collection
  • Places, Mountain
  • Places, Town
  • Structures, Dwellings
...Folder 2 A Souvenir of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island, Maine, 190?, W. H. Sherman, 68 pages : chiefly illustrations...Folder 3 (not yet scanned) Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island, 1888, William Berry Lapham, 72 pages: illustrations...Folder 30 Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island, by W. B. Lapham, 1887...Folder 51 Mount Desert on the coast of Maine, by Mrs. Clara Barnes Martin, 1870 (very fragile)...
GXS Collection - Books and Souvenir Booklets
Item:
  • 6982   
Type:
  • Collection
Subject:
  • Places, Mountain
  • Places, Town
  • Structures, Dwellings
Collection:
  • GXS Collection
Object ID:
  • GXS
Location:
  • Shelf 4B4
Description:
...Folder 2 A Souvenir of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island, Maine, 190?, W. H. Sherman, 68 pages : chiefly illustrations...Folder 3 (not yet scanned) Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island, 1888, William Berry Lapham, 72 pages: illustrations...Folder 30 Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island, by W. B. Lapham, 1887...Folder 51 Mount Desert on the coast of Maine, by Mrs. Clara Barnes Martin, 1870 (very fragile)...

File Attachments:
GXS Books Folder 32.pdf
…Among the islands named by him are Matinicus (Orsenes Isles), Isle au Haut, Mount Desert Island, Petit Manan (Menanan), and, farther east, Great Wass Island …DESERT ISLAND Clara B. Martin. Mount Desert, on the Coast of Maine. Portland, 1874. G 67 Descriptive booklets such as Mrs. …G The light station on Mount Desert Rock, about 20 miles from the mainland, was built in 1830. …P., 116 Morton, Oliver P., 54 Moulton, Louise Chandler, 99 Mount Desert Island, 1, 71, 114-117, 122 Mount Desert Rock Light, 123 Mowat, Henry, 26, 27 Munjoy
6157Sprague's journal of Maine history
  • Publication, Book
  • Organizations, Religious
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places
...Sawtelle (p.192-193) 1920 Vol. 8 No. 1 1922 Vol. 10 No. 4 – Father Pierre Biard, Superior of the Mount Desert Jesuit Mission of Saint Sauveur by William...Desert by William O...Stevens – The Island of Mount Desert by William O. Sawtelle (p.127-144) – 2 copies – Antoinette de Pons by William O...Hennessy – Mount Desert: Champlain to Bernard by William O. Sawtelle (p.131-186) – Historical Thanksgiving at Southwest Harbor (p.27)...
Sprague's journal of Maine history
Item:
  • 6157   
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Organizations, Religious
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places
Collection:
  • Special Collection Books
Object ID:
  • SCB 974.1 SPRAGUE'S
Location:
  • Shelf 6A4/6A5
Description:
...Sawtelle (p.192-193) 1920 Vol. 8 No. 1 1922 Vol. 10 No. 4 – Father Pierre Biard, Superior of the Mount Desert Jesuit Mission of Saint Sauveur by William...Desert by William O...Stevens – The Island of Mount Desert by William O. Sawtelle (p.127-144) – 2 copies – Antoinette de Pons by William O...Hennessy – Mount Desert: Champlain to Bernard by William O. Sawtelle (p.131-186) – Historical Thanksgiving at Southwest Harbor (p.27)...
2049Manchester and Branscom Family History
  • Document, Legal, Deed
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Town
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Vessels, Steamboat
...Contents of Curtis Phelps Collection: CD1: - Main Street: 5 B/W images of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - 13 images of Northeast Harbor and Mount...Desert area: 1...Steamer Mount Desert...
  • 17 pages, 2 CDs
Manchester and Branscom Family History
Item:
  • 2049   
Type:
  • Document, Legal, Deed
Subject:
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Town
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Vessels, Steamboat
Collection:
  • General Collection
Object ID:
  • GEN 0563
Location:
  • CD Box 1, General Collection Box 17
Pages:
  • 17 pages, 2 CDs
Description:
...Contents of Curtis Phelps Collection: CD1: - Main Street: 5 B/W images of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - 13 images of Northeast Harbor and Mount...Desert area: 1...Steamer Mount Desert...
7184Rivers Clippings Collection Alphabetical Files
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Events
  • People
  • Places
...Mason Mount Desert Mount Desert Boys in WWII Mount Desert Festival of Chamber Music Mount Desert Island Mount Desert Public Health Murphy, Maitland...
  • 1 filing cabinet
  • folders with articles and clippings
Rivers Clippings Collection Alphabetical Files
Item:
  • 7184   
Type:
  • Publication, Clipping
Subject:
  • Events
  • People
  • Places
Collection:
  • Rivers Clippings Alphabetical Files
Object ID:
  • RCAF
Location:
  • Rivers Clippings filing cabinet
Pages:
  • 1 filing cabinet
Medium:
  • folders with articles and clippings
Description:
...Mason Mount Desert Mount Desert Boys in WWII Mount Desert Festival of Chamber Music Mount Desert Island Mount Desert Public Health Murphy, Maitland...

File Attachment:
Rivers Clippings Alphabetical Files b.pdf
…Desert: 200 years , The Bar Harbor Times, August 3, 1989 Mount Desert Boys in Mount Desert boys in action on all of the world s battle fronts …, WWII Bangor Daily News, March 9, 1943 Mount Desert Festival - Mount Desert Festival of Chamber Music opens 14th season at NEH of Chamber Music July …Desert Island Mount Desert Public Health - Mount Desert Island , scenes, buildings etc. …Desert child day care nursery center , March 12, 1975 - Mount Desert Elemn.
6981GXS Collection - Ephemera
  • Collection
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
  • Places, Island
...Folder 26 Mount Desert Island Real Estate Co., share certificate for Geo. C. Ming dated August 23, 1888 for fifteen shares in capital stock...Folder 39 Article on early history of Mount Desert Island...Desert & Machias Steamboat Co., Dr. to Little Dear Isle (1899, 1900, 1901) - Bangor & Bar Harbor Steamboat Co., Dr. (1990) - Islesboro, Castine & Belfast...
GXS Collection - Ephemera
Item:
  • 6981   
Type:
  • Collection
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
  • Places, Island
Collection:
  • GXS Collection
Object ID:
  • GXS
Location:
  • Shelf 4B4
Description:
...Folder 26 Mount Desert Island Real Estate Co., share certificate for Geo. C. Ming dated August 23, 1888 for fifteen shares in capital stock...Folder 39 Article on early history of Mount Desert Island...Desert & Machias Steamboat Co., Dr. to Little Dear Isle (1899, 1900, 1901) - Bangor & Bar Harbor Steamboat Co., Dr. (1990) - Islesboro, Castine & Belfast...