A biography of John Neal (August 25, 1793 – June 20, 1876), the first American writer to represent "The United States of North America" in the British Quarterlies.
Description: A biography of John Neal (August 25, 1793 – June 20, 1876), the first American writer to represent "The United States of North America" in the British Quarterlies.
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 Island. Published in Down East Magazine, October 1988.
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 Island. Published in Down East Magazine, October 1988.
Copy of intensive study of the ANP carriage road system involving transfer of land ownership, natural resources, trail and road planning & design, costs, labor
Description: Copy of intensive study of the ANP carriage road system involving transfer of land ownership, natural resources, trail and road planning & design, costs, labor
Description: Excerpt of an article by William Otis Sawtelle in a 1925 Sprague's Journal of Maine History. Sir Robert Mansell bought Mt. Desert Island in a lottery.
Professor Sawtelle's translation (presumed) of Sam Hadlock Jr.'s journal of his European traveling show with Eskimo George Niagungitok and Mary ?. Includes a short biography of Hadlock's life on Cranberry Island. Sent to R. Pyle by Hugh Dwelley. biography of Sam Hadlock on Cranberry Island. Journal dates from 1822-1826.
Description: Professor Sawtelle's translation (presumed) of Sam Hadlock Jr.'s journal of his European traveling show with Eskimo George Niagungitok and Mary ?. Includes a short biography of Hadlock's life on Cranberry Island. Sent to R. Pyle by Hugh Dwelley. biography of Sam Hadlock on Cranberry Island. Journal dates from 1822-1826.
Publication of a paper presented by William Sawtelle to the Maine Historical Society in 1923 about Samuel Argall, merchant tailor, of Bristol, England, and the first Englishman recorded to have visited Mount Desert Island in 1613.
Description: Publication of a paper presented by William Sawtelle to the Maine Historical Society in 1923 about Samuel Argall, merchant tailor, of Bristol, England, and the first Englishman recorded to have visited Mount Desert Island in 1613.
About Francis Bernard, governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts, his interest in the boundary question between the U.S. and Nova Scotia, and his grant of 100, 00 acres of land. Built a summer home in part of SW Harbor.
Description: About Francis Bernard, governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts, his interest in the boundary question between the U.S. and Nova Scotia, and his grant of 100, 00 acres of land. Built a summer home in part of SW Harbor.
One of Maine's Great Pioneers. By William B. Skelton, member of the Newcomen Society, chairman of the board of Central Maine Power Company, Augusta, Maine.
Description: One of Maine's Great Pioneers. By William B. Skelton, member of the Newcomen Society, chairman of the board of Central Maine Power Company, Augusta, Maine.
A page from the Boston Globe newspaper, describing Mrs. George Shattock personal involvement in organizing The Pan American Society, and many other accomplishments.
Description: A page from the Boston Globe newspaper, describing Mrs. George Shattock personal involvement in organizing The Pan American Society, and many other accomplishments.
"Witnesses to History" is Part Four of a commemorative series celebrating: hundred years of Maine life. This copy covers WWI, (1914-1918)----The Health Care Revolution
Description: "Witnesses to History" is Part Four of a commemorative series celebrating: hundred years of Maine life. This copy covers WWI, (1914-1918)----The Health Care Revolution
Photograph and caption from an article published in "The Magazine Antiques", June 1973, by Walter Muir Whitehill, director and librarian emeritus: "Portrait busts in the library of the Boston Athenaeum". The bust of Emily Marshall was carved from a death mask in Florence in 1839 by Horatio Greenough and given to the Athenaeum in 1956 by her great-grandson, Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison.
Description: Photograph and caption from an article published in "The Magazine Antiques", June 1973, by Walter Muir Whitehill, director and librarian emeritus: "Portrait busts in the library of the Boston Athenaeum". The bust of Emily Marshall was carved from a death mask in Florence in 1839 by Horatio Greenough and given to the Athenaeum in 1956 by her great-grandson, Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison.
Bulletin 1, The Jones cove Shell-Heap at West Gouldsboro, Maine by W. B. Smith in connection with Lafayette National Park - account of archeological digs at this Flanders Bay site in W. Gouldsboro, ME in 1928.
Description: Bulletin 1, The Jones cove Shell-Heap at West Gouldsboro, Maine by W. B. Smith in connection with Lafayette National Park - account of archeological digs at this Flanders Bay site in W. Gouldsboro, ME in 1928.