Description: Biography of Beatrix Farrand with intensive review of early focus on landscape design, her mentors, her developing philosophy of gardening.
Senior college essay of Eleanor Kinney about the development of Acadia National Park and conflicts between the summer residents and year-round working residents.
Description: Senior college essay of Eleanor Kinney about the development of Acadia National Park and conflicts between the summer residents and year-round working residents.
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
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
Article about the development and research of the cetacean program "Allied Whale" with its field station on Mount Desert Rock, run by Ann Rivers and Steve Mullane.
Description: Article about the development and research of the cetacean program "Allied Whale" with its field station on Mount Desert Rock, run by Ann Rivers and Steve Mullane.
Memorial article to Beatrix Farrand as one of the founders of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Includes comments of Reef Point and Dumbarton Oaks.
Description: Memorial article to Beatrix Farrand as one of the founders of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Includes comments of Reef Point and Dumbarton Oaks.
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
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
Downloaded copy of a special article in the New York Times about summer events in Bar Harbor and Northeast Harbor. Included are riding events, yacht races, golf, private dinners, garden parties, dances, and play productions.
Description: Downloaded copy of a special article in the New York Times about summer events in Bar Harbor and Northeast Harbor. Included are riding events, yacht races, golf, private dinners, garden parties, dances, and play productions.
A hard bound booklet containing information about Bar Harbor Swimming Club, list of members, many copies of advertisements and photographs pertaining to summer colony.
Description: A hard bound booklet containing information about Bar Harbor Swimming Club, list of members, many copies of advertisements and photographs pertaining to summer colony.
Description with photographs and diagrams of Beatrix Farrand's designs of the gardens at Dunbarton Oaks. Published in "Landscape Architecture" in January 1977.
Description: Description with photographs and diagrams of Beatrix Farrand's designs of the gardens at Dunbarton Oaks. Published in "Landscape Architecture" in January 1977.
Description: Detail of the parade celebrating the Bicentennial of the Town of Mount Desert listing time, assembly area, map of parade route and the parade line-up.
Description: Unusual & beautiful vines thrive in Reef Points Gardens in Bar Harbor, Maine. These pages are copied from Brooklyn Botanic Garden Handbook on Vines.
A partnership of Maine Heritage Trust and several of its members earned the property with an $815,000 bid. This consisted of 125 acres of meadow, woodland and salt marsh.
Description: A partnership of Maine Heritage Trust and several of its members earned the property with an $815,000 bid. This consisted of 125 acres of meadow, woodland and salt marsh.
A booklet about the USN Patrol Boat #783 in 1917, Botswain George R. Hadlock, Commanding. There is a copy of photograph of boat, crew & log excerpts from 4/1917-11/1918.
Description: A booklet about the USN Patrol Boat #783 in 1917, Botswain George R. Hadlock, Commanding. There is a copy of photograph of boat, crew & log excerpts from 4/1917-11/1918.
In 1995, Kathryn Suminsby & her husband Robert, life long & year -round residents of Northeast Harbor, placed a conservation easement on their Somes Sound property .
Description: In 1995, Kathryn Suminsby & her husband Robert, life long & year -round residents of Northeast Harbor, placed a conservation easement on their Somes Sound property .
Shinto: Nature, Gods, and Man in Japan, is a 16mm color film, produced by the Japan Society, the crew included David Westphal from Northeast Harbor (see Photograph).
Description: Shinto: Nature, Gods, and Man in Japan, is a 16mm color film, produced by the Japan Society, the crew included David Westphal from Northeast Harbor (see Photograph).