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Item Title Type Subject Description Creator Date Property Name Street Pages Medium Condition
5564Green Mountain Railway
  • Image, Photograph
  • Transportation, Railroad
B/W photograph of Green Mountain locomotive pushing passenger car to top of mountain (now Cadillac Mountain). Engineer is Walter H. Dunton.
  • Willis H. Ballard
  • 1885
Description:
B/W photograph of Green Mountain locomotive pushing passenger car to top of mountain (now Cadillac Mountain). Engineer is Walter H. Dunton.
6432Eastport & Passamaquoddy
  • Document, Genealogy Records
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places
A Collection of Historical & Biographical Sketches.
  • William Henry Kilby
  • 1888
  • 34
Description:
A Collection of Historical & Biographical Sketches.
3737Atlas of Washington County, Maine:
  • Map
Engraved by William Bracher; printed by F. Bourquin. Includes a classified directory of some of the principal business firms and professional men of the county. Includes historical notes and census data.
  • William Bracher, F. Bourquin
  • 1881
  • 1 atlas
  • paper
Description:
Engraved by William Bracher; printed by F. Bourquin. Includes a classified directory of some of the principal business firms and professional men of the county. Includes historical notes and census data.
1102Alteration and Addition to House for Moorfield Storey
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
See also item 1101, by Fred L. Savage.
  • Wheelwright and Haven
  • 1884-1885
  • Stornoway
  • South Shore Road
  • 7 sheets
  • tracing cloth, paper
Description:
See also item 1101, by Fred L. Savage.
3723Mount Desert and adjacent islands
  • Map
  • Places, Island
Photographic negative of the map.
  • Walling
  • 1881
  • 1
  • plastic Photographic negative
Description:
Photographic negative of the map.
2805Description and diagrams of 3 Davenport parcels
  • Document, Legal, Legal Documents
letter, Serena Hale Davenport to Belle Knowles rough sketches of Davenport lots; copy of deed
  • Serena Hale Davenport, Com. R. G. Davenport
  • post 1886
  • 9
Description:
letter, Serena Hale Davenport to Belle Knowles rough sketches of Davenport lots; copy of deed
6880Union Church Property Deed
  • Document, Legal, Deed
  • Organizations, Religious
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
A copy of the deed signing over property to be used for erection and maintenance of a church to be called "The Union Church of Northeast Harbor".
  • Samuel Gilpatrick
  • 12-17-1887
  • photocopy
Description:
A copy of the deed signing over property to be used for erection and maintenance of a church to be called "The Union Church of Northeast Harbor".
1548Union Church Deed of Land
  • Document, Legal, Deed
  • Organizations, Religious
Copy of the land deed, a gift of Samuel Gilpatrick to the Union Church in Northeast Harbor. Researched by Donald Phillips.
  • Samuel Gilpatrick
  • 1887
  • photocopy
Description:
Copy of the land deed, a gift of Samuel Gilpatrick to the Union Church in Northeast Harbor. Researched by Donald Phillips.
4379Road above Northeast Harbor looking south
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Road
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. "Known today as Pond Hill, route 3/198 500 yards south of the Gate House. The date is questionable because the photo shows the original Asticou Inn which was not built until after 1881." 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. "Known today as Pond Hill, route 3/198 500 yards south of the Gate House. The date is questionable because the photo shows the original Asticou Inn which was not built until after 1881." Tom Eliot Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
4380Upper Hadlock Pond
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Lake
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. "This picture was taken from the roadway before the road was cut down into the hillside, thus the camera height above the water would place today's photographer about six feet in the air." 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. "This picture was taken from the roadway before the road was cut down into the hillside, thus the camera height above the water would place today's photographer about six feet in the air." Tom Eliot
4496Northeast Harbor area
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Camp
  • Places, Road
5 sepia prints of Northeast Harbor, Maine area: a. Brown Mt. Road looking toward Northeast Harbor. b. Charles W. Eliot house & float looking north. c. Brown Mt. road. d. Road along the east side of Northeast Harbor ("Peabody Drive" area). e. Charles and Samuel Eliot and Harvard Students encampment
  • Samuel A. Eliot
  • 1884
Description:
5 sepia prints of Northeast Harbor, Maine area: a. Brown Mt. Road looking toward Northeast Harbor. b. Charles W. Eliot house & float looking north. c. Brown Mt. road. d. Road along the east side of Northeast Harbor ("Peabody Drive" area). e. Charles and Samuel Eliot and Harvard Students encampment
4373Cadillac's Harbor of Mount Desert from Bear Island
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Harbor
  • Places, Landscape
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society.
  • 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.
4374View from Sargent Mountain
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Landscape
  • Places, Mountain
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society.
  • 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.
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
4376Jordan Pond
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Lake
  • Places, Mountain
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. Overlook from Jordan Pond House to the Bubbles.
  • 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. Overlook from Jordan Pond House to the Bubbles.
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.
2486The Anchorage
  • Document, Projection, Plan
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
Floor plans blueprints of the original "Anchorage" in Seal Harbor. It was later torn down to build the Nelson Rockefeller house. Subsequently owned by Josephine Ford.
  • Rear Admiral Arent Schuyler Crowninshield
  • 1880s
  • 3
  • ARCH
Description:
Floor plans blueprints of the original "Anchorage" in Seal Harbor. It was later torn down to build the Nelson Rockefeller house. Subsequently owned by Josephine Ford.
6090Report of a Committee of the No. East Harbor Association for the Protection of the Woods from Fire
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Events, Fire
  • Places
Report of a Committee of the No. East Harbor Association for the protection of the woods from fire, upon the forest fires on the Island of Mount Desert, Me., in the year 1883, with a brief record of the same, and some suggestions for the better protection of the woods in the future.
  • Northeast Harbor Association for the protection of the Woods from Fire
  • 1884
  • 8
  • pamphlet
  • good
Description:
Report of a Committee of the No. East Harbor Association for the protection of the woods from fire, upon the forest fires on the Island of Mount Desert, Me., in the year 1883, with a brief record of the same, and some suggestions for the better protection of the woods in the future.
1985Mount Desert List of Students and road workers
  • Document, Other Documents
  • People
  • Places, Town
Names of students at Sandy Point (later Northeast Harbor) in March, 1871 and a list of names of road workers and hours worked.
  • Mount Desert
  • 1884
  • 1
  • typescript
Description:
Names of students at Sandy Point (later Northeast Harbor) in March, 1871 and a list of names of road workers and hours worked.
1454The Lighthouse Window
  • Image, Art, Painting
  • Object, Art, Stained Glass
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
Original card painted by Margaret Herrison Doane (Daisy) for her Aunt Mary Spring Perkins, Christmas 1881. This design inspired the window in St. Mary's-by-the-sea. Accompanying is a Photograph copy of a paper written by Margaret Doane Fayerweather in 1955 about the history of the lighthouse window.
  • Margaret Herrison Doane
  • 1881
  • 1 painting
  • paper
Description:
Original card painted by Margaret Herrison Doane (Daisy) for her Aunt Mary Spring Perkins, Christmas 1881. This design inspired the window in St. Mary's-by-the-sea. Accompanying is a Photograph copy of a paper written by Margaret Doane Fayerweather in 1955 about the history of the lighthouse window.
2896Deed: Levi A. Wyman to Herbert E. Sawyer, 1888
  • Document, Legal, Deed
  • People
  • L. A. Wyman
  • 1888
  • Deed
2453Divisions of Benjamin Richardson Estate (Plan B)
  • Document, Projection, Plan
  • Other, Land
Lot maps A & B (20x16", tissue) showing divisions of Somesville property in the estate of Benjamin Richardson. Includes Richardsons, Wasgatt, Stevens, Pray (fragile!)
  • L. A. Wyman
  • 1888
  • 2
  • MAP
  • fragile, damaged
Description:
Lot maps A & B (20x16", tissue) showing divisions of Somesville property in the estate of Benjamin Richardson. Includes Richardsons, Wasgatt, Stevens, Pray (fragile!)
5096Lydia Wood with family at Jordan Pond
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Places, Lake
Lydia Wood and family sitting on the rocks at Jordan Pond. Lydia is playing the banjo. There are several children in the picture. Lydia Wood became Mrs. Charles Bailey. She was Mrs. William (Louisa) Foulke's aunt.
  • Joseph M. Wilson
  • 8-20-1887
Description:
Lydia Wood and family sitting on the rocks at Jordan Pond. Lydia is playing the banjo. There are several children in the picture. Lydia Wood became Mrs. Charles Bailey. She was Mrs. William (Louisa) Foulke's aunt.
5097People on steps of Harbor Cottages, Northeast Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
8 women and 2 men sitting on and standing around steps of Harbor Cottages in Northeast Harbor. Unidentified. Lady in center has a musical instrument on her lap.
  • Joseph M. Wilson
  • 8-31-1887
Description:
8 women and 2 men sitting on and standing around steps of Harbor Cottages in Northeast Harbor. Unidentified. Lady in center has a musical instrument on her lap.