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
Retirement as Chairman of Board of the Northeast Harbor Library and Remarks at the 23rd Annual Meeting, August 1973. Mentions library artifacts. Coat of Arms by Wendell Gilley, William Draper Lewis plaque, Hancock County walling map all from Roger Griswald. Flying Cloud by Luther Phillips, doll house from Mrs. Sawyer, chair from Green (now Cadillac) Mountain house porch.
Description: Retirement as Chairman of Board of the Northeast Harbor Library and Remarks at the 23rd Annual Meeting, August 1973. Mentions library artifacts. Coat of Arms by Wendell Gilley, William Draper Lewis plaque, Hancock County walling map all from Roger Griswald. Flying Cloud by Luther Phillips, doll house from Mrs. Sawyer, chair from Green (now Cadillac) Mountain house porch.
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.
Framed, B/W, 9.5x8" photograph of student storytellers at the library. Names listed on back include Standing: Steve Coffin, John Grant, Sitting: Elaine Higgens, Esther Jordan Floor: Dick Smith, Jr. and Dick Lunt
Description: Framed, B/W, 9.5x8" photograph of student storytellers at the library. Names listed on back include Standing: Steve Coffin, John Grant, Sitting: Elaine Higgens, Esther Jordan Floor: Dick Smith, Jr. and Dick Lunt
Description: Framed, B/W, 9.5x8" photograph showing student telling stories to elementary school class in front of fireplace of now-replaced old library.
Standing in line with sign "Site of Northeast Harbor Free Public Library". L to R: William S. Holmes, Mrs. Gerrish H. Milliken, Sr., Gordon H. Falt, Matthew T. Mellon, Eliot Wadsworth, Mrs. Vance C. McCormick, Charles K. Savage Not present: Mr. S. Edwin Tracy, Mrs. August Belmont and Mrs. George Manchester
Description: Standing in line with sign "Site of Northeast Harbor Free Public Library". L to R: William S. Holmes, Mrs. Gerrish H. Milliken, Sr., Gordon H. Falt, Matthew T. Mellon, Eliot Wadsworth, Mrs. Vance C. McCormick, Charles K. Savage Not present: Mr. S. Edwin Tracy, Mrs. August Belmont and Mrs. George Manchester
Opening Day Ceremonies, April 1st, 1986. Photo 1988 a: The Mellon Family (Matthew T. Mellon II, Chris Mellon, Andrea Geyer, Gertrud A. Mellon, Vivian Mellon, James Mellon Photo 1988 b: Opening Address by Board Chairman Elise F. Hawtin Photo 1988 e: The Flute Performance, Elizabeth Downing and Lorri Newman Photo 1988 f: Audience seated at south end of Mellon Room Photo 1988 g: Audience seated at west end of Mellon Room Photo 1998 h: Librarian Robert (Bob) Pyle, James Mellon and Gertrud Mellon Photo 1988 i: Library Treasurer Ruth Jordan and Matthew T. Mellon II Photo 1988 j: Serving the refreshments, Katherine Savage and Lucy Smith, Library Trustees Photo 1988: Contact Sheet
Description: Opening Day Ceremonies, April 1st, 1986. Photo 1988 a: The Mellon Family (Matthew T. Mellon II, Chris Mellon, Andrea Geyer, Gertrud A. Mellon, Vivian Mellon, James Mellon Photo 1988 b: Opening Address by Board Chairman Elise F. Hawtin Photo 1988 e: The Flute Performance, Elizabeth Downing and Lorri Newman Photo 1988 f: Audience seated at south end of Mellon Room Photo 1988 g: Audience seated at west end of Mellon Room Photo 1998 h: Librarian Robert (Bob) Pyle, James Mellon and Gertrud Mellon Photo 1988 i: Library Treasurer Ruth Jordan and Matthew T. Mellon II Photo 1988 j: Serving the refreshments, Katherine Savage and Lucy Smith, Library Trustees Photo 1988: Contact Sheet [show more]
Description: Trustee and Secretary of the Northeast Harbor Library from 1894 to 1912. He built "Rosserne", was grandfather of Jarvis Cromwell, and died in 1913.
Description: First Chairman of the new Northeast Harbor Library. Photograph of a painting by Betsy Flagg Melcher. Mrs. Belmont served from 1949 through 1952.