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1984 Virginia Somes Sanderson

4th of July Parade

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A History of Bartlett’s Island, Mount Desert, Maine

A Little Book Worth Reading

A Summer Full of Flowers

Agenda, VIS

"An Almost Lost Art in Today's Industrial World"

Ancestral Roll and Chapter Roster, Maine State Organization

Annual Report, Somesville Village Improvement Society

Arcady Music Festival

Architectural Drawing for Museum Bridge, Somesville, Maine

Architectural Drawing for Museum Museum Bridge, Somesville Maine

Architectural Drawing for Proposed Museum

Arthur & Rebecca Foote

Arthur Spurling

Arthur Spurling, Isleford

Arthur Spurling painting a small boat

Arthur Spurling with a half boat model

Article on Beatrix Ferrand April 1985

Articles on the Fire of 1947

Artist John Heliker

Artist Robert La Hotan

At an Auction (2)

At Home: The American Family 1750-1870

Auctioneer Mayo

August 23, 1989 Meeting Minutes, Folder #8

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Babson Portrait

Bar Harbor Struggles with Big City Problems

Bar Harbor Times

Bar Harbor Times “Development Shaping the Future of Our Communities”

Bar Harbor Times “Mount Desert Island’s Granite Heritage”

Bar Harbor Times: “Somesville Faces Impact of Urban Sprawl”

Bar Harbor Times: “Southwest Harbor Collides with Change”

Bar Harbor Times “Trenton Stems Tide”

Bar Island

Bar Island shore with Bald Porcupine Island on the right

Bass Harbor Marsh: Biologists still don't know the source of all the pollution

Beer and Skittles

Benefit Chamber Music Concert

Bicentennial Plans

Bids on Construction of New Museum Building for MDI Historical Society

Biographical Notes on Somes of Colonial Massachusetts

Birch Trees

Birdsall's Farm Visit

Blue Hill Bay, Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast

Blue Lobsters, Old Ghosts: A Visit to Bar Harbor

Blue Van Back

Blueprints of Golf Club Renovations

Boatbuilder

Bob Lincoln

Bog

Bond Issues and Maine Yankee Power Plant Referendum vote

Book Review of Lion and the Ostrich...

Building and Land Use Permits

C

Card to Addie Smith

Carole’s Family History: A Keezer and Field Family Genealogy.

Carroll Farm, Southwest Harbor, Maine

Celo Inn

Champagne and a Gardener: A Little Maine Murder

Champlain's Map of the Coast of New France, drawn by him in 1607 [copy]

Chebacco Boat Model

Children at College of the Atlantic Ocean Day Photograph, March 21, 1981

Children on Rocks

COA 10 Years Later

Coffee mug from last round trip of MV Bluenose (Ferry #1)

Comment on the Canadian Somes and Discussion of Variant Spelling of Somes

Community Directory 1982

Community Directory, 1984

Community Directory, 1987

Community Directory, 1988

Community Directory, 1989

Conservation of Photographs

Country Houses and Seaside Cottages of the Victorian Era

Croquet, Anyone?

Cross section of Soil

Crystal Bog

Cumulative Impact of Development on Mount Desert Island

Cumulative Impact of Development on Mount Desert Island, Maine

D

Davis Irvin

Death Record for Jacob Richard Somes

Deck for Mr. and Mrs. Robert Blake, Somesville (2)

Deed Conveying Land from Emily Grindle to the MDI Historical Society

Descriptions of ships

Dow Family Biographical Information

Down East Magazine (5)

Drawing for New Museum Building, Somesville, Maine

Drawing for Proposed Museum Building

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Early American Community Structures

Early American School Books

Early American Trades Coloring Book

Early Pleasures and Pastimes

Early Schools (2)

Earth Day

Earth Day 1980

Eastern Larch Tree

Eddie Davis

Education Meeting

Elevation Drawing for Proposed Museum (2)

Elevation Drawing for Proposed Museum.

Elevation Drawings for Proposed Museum

Elevation Drawings for Proposed Museum.

Eliots and Asticou Foreside, Northeast Harbor

Elizabeth & Stanwood King: Oral History, Southwest Harbor, ME, part of series conducted by the Southwest Harbor Oral History Society, Southwest Harbor Public Library, 1989

Environmental Narration Letter -Tivoli, TX

Environmental narration-Port Isabel, Tx

Evergreen

Excerpt with Photograph from "This and That"

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Fabulous Radio NBD

Fall Leaves (2)

Fall Leaves on a Mountain

Fall leaves on Mountain

Farm Visit (3)

First Things

Fish in Weir Net (2)

Fish in Weir Net and Dory (2)

Fish in Weir Net in dory

Five articles about the Mount Desert Historical Society building a new museum.

Floor Plan for Proposed Museum (2)

Forgotten household crafts: A portrait of the way we once lived.

Fred and Grace Spiker Documents

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Gail Meierm Edna Hysom, Arthur and Phyllis Charpentier

Genealogical Timelines

Genealogy of the Somes family in Canada

Gilley: Portrait of a Bird Carver

Gilley Clock

Gladys Butler (2)

Golden Age of Maine Summer Hotels Advertisement

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Hancock County Four Seasons Guide Acadia National Park

Hand Drawn Maps of Location of New Museum Building

Heartland: Emery District Farmers Wage Losing Battle to Save their Working Farms

Helen Douglas and Louse Gilbert

Helen Douglas, Doris Riley

Helen Douglas, Jackie Russell

Historical Society Building Under Way

Historical Society Newsletter

History of Barlett’s Island, Mount Desert Maine

History of Seal Harbor Village Improment Society

Homes of New York and Connecticut

House and Guest House for Mr. and Mrs. R.A. Thorndike, Bar Harbor, ME, 1981

House for Hon. and Mrs. William W. Scranton, Seal Harbor, ME, 1985 (10)

House for Mr. and Mrs. Casper Weinberger, Somesville, ME, 1980 (2)

House for Mr. and Mrs. H.T. Williams, Bar Harbor, Maine, 1985

House for Mr. and Mrs. H.T. Williams, Bar Harbor, ME, 1983

House for Mr. and Mrs. William Scranton, Seal Harbor, Maine, 1986 (2)

House, Garage, Boat House, Planting Plans, and Projects for Mr. and Mrs. David Rockefeller, Seal Harbor, ME, 1982

House, Garage, Boat House, Planting Plans, and Projects for Mr. and Mrs. David Rockefeller, Seal Harbor, ME, 1987 (5)

Housing Dilemma Worsens Resort Labor Shortage

I

Indian Pipe Plants

Interior, MDI Historical Society Somesville Museum

International One-Design World Championship

Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast, Vol. II: Mount Desert to Machias Bay

J

James Dorr

John Gilley One of the Forgotten Millions

John Malbry

Jordan Pond House, Alterantions, Private Dining Room, 1978-1986

Judy McVety

June Groundbreaking Planned for New Historical Museum

June Groundbreaking Planned for New Historical Society

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Key to Kellam Home

L

Landscape with Red Bushes

LaRue Spiker

LaRue Spiker and Friend Picnic on Little Cranberry Photograph, 1980

LaRue Spiker Documents

LaRue Spiker Family Document (2)

LaRue Spiker Will

League of Women Voters County Government

League of Women Voters Board Manual

Letter Describing her Family Connection to Somesville, Maine

Letter from Arnold Welles to Northeast Harbor Library

Letter from Charles to his sisters and brothers.

Letter from Charles to John Cushing at the Massachussets Historical Society

Letter from Charles to Ted

Letter from Charles to Ted

Letter from McGiffert to Nelson ? Regarding New Museum Building

Letter from Sanderson pertaining to the Footbridge donation

Letter from Sanderson to President of the MDI Historical Society

Letter from Stanley to Virginia Somes Sanderson

Letter from Suminsby, Robert to Spiker, LaRue

Letter from the MDI Historical Society to Virginia Somes Sanderson

Letter Pertaining to Somes Genealogy

Letter to LaRue Spiker from William Cohen

Letter to Mrs. Charles Lanpher (Juanita Lanpher)

Letter to Ted from Charles

Letters to Bidding Contractors on New Museum Building

Life on Tinker Island

Lighthouses Guide Sailors Around Mount Desert Isalnd

Like It Was: Complete Guide to Writing Oral History.

List of Clients and Projects, from Surviving Account Books, RWP, 1985

Lobstering and The Maine Coast

Looking at a sign

Looking at wool

Lost Bar Harbor

Louise Gilbert (2)

Louise Gilbert and Hollis Piatt

Luders L-16 Lines

M

Maine Families in 1790 Vol. 1 (2)

Maine Guide to Museums and Historic Homes

Maine: The Coast and Islands

Making It in Maine

Man on lobster boat

Man painting lobster bouy

Man setting lobster traps

Maple Leaves

Mary Dana Bristol at tennis, swinging racket.

MDI Historical Society Newsletter

MDI Historical Society Parade Float

MDI League of Women Voters Banner

MDI LWV Bulletin for 1987

MDI's Auto War: Summer vs. Permanent Residents, 1900-1915

MDI’s AutoWar: Summer vs. Permanent Residents

Meadow

Meeting About Educational System

Meeting about Maine Energy Commision

Men standing in front of stores in Cottage Street

Milkweed (2)

Mound of clothing on table at yard sale

Mount Desert: An Informal History

Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park

Mount Desert Island High School Student Handbook, 1980-1981

Mount Desert Island History

Mount Desert Island League of Women Voters Bulletin, April 1989

Mount Desert Island; Summer Guide

Mount Desert Island: Summer Guide

Mount Desert Island's Granite Heritage

Mt. Desert Island Historical Museum 1980s (3)

Mt. Desert Island Historical Museum 1980s Fitz Hugh Lane Picture

Mt. Desert Island Historical Museum 1980s Gilley Clock

Mt. Desert Island Historical Museum circa 1980s

Mt. Desert Island's Granite Heritage

Museum Bridge Drawings, Somesville Maine

Museum Bridge Plans, Somesville

Museum Bridge, Somesville Maine, North Elevation dwg 2

Museum Bridge, Somesville, Maine, Drawings by Caivano & Hyman, August 8, 1981

Music Festival 1989

Music Festival Flyer 1982

Music Festival Flyer 1984

Music Festival Flyer 1985

Music Festival Flyer 1986

Music Festival Master Class

Music Festival program 1983

Music Festival program 1984

Music Festival program 1985

Music Festival program 1986

Music Festival program 1987

Music Festival program 1988 (2)

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Narrative for slideshow about Hall Quarry

Native Birds of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park

Needlecraft for Today (June 1980)

New Museum Opening Day (2)

New wing, Northeast Harbor Library, Northeast Harbor, Maine, 1964-1975

Newsclipping: "Heartland - Emery District Farmers Wage Losing Battle to Save Their Working Farms"

Newsclipping: "Property Values Go Higher and Higher"

Newsletter of Mount Desert High School Alumni Association (1988)

Newsletter Volume 4 Number 1

Newspaper article: "The Corsair’s Retreat - A Story of the Slave Trade"

Newspaper clipping of Charles "Ted" Smith obituary (1980)

Nine Boats & Nine Kids

Northeast Harbor Golf Club Rennovations Plan 8/25/1986

Northeast Harbor Golf Club Renovations

Not a Common House

Not a Common House: A History of St. Mary's-by-the-Sea

Notes pertaining to Deborah Richardson

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Obituaries, W.H. Ballard

Official Documents pertaining to Footbridge Construction in Somesville

Old Buildings in Somesville

Old Gods Come to Somesville, Maine

On the Art of Teaching

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Parade Float (7)

Past in Photos: Scenes of SW Harbor, Tremont, and Mt. Desert

Peace: The Over Riding Imperitive

Peat Vacuum (2)

Peddlers of Long Ago

People sitting on a rock wall

Person reading something.

picture

Pink lady slipper

Pioneer Settler and Townsman: The Life of Samuel Harnden of Woolwich, Maine

Pitcher Plant Flowers

Plans for Somesville Fire House, Somesville, ME 1986

Plowed field

Preparations for yard sale

Pretty Marsh Association Meeting Minutes

Pretty Marsh Community Directory 1980

Pretty Marsh Endeavors to Maintain Rural Traditions

Program for Service of Ordination for Joanne E. Stoughton

Pulling net from water.

Purpose and Requirements of New Museum Building

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Quitclaim Deed from Emily F. Grindle to MDI Historical Society (April 23, 1981)

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Ralph Stanley

Real estate ad. for "restored 1830 Maine Farmstead"

Recipes compiled by the Ladies of Mount Desert Chapter O.E.S. 1903

Renovations, A.V.Higgins Store, for Victor Higgins, Somesville, ME, 1986 (7)

Risk and Opportunity Health & Security in the Nuclear Age

Robert Lincoln

Rocking horse waiting to be auctioned

Rose pogonia

Rushing River

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Save the Clean Air Act Display

Saved by A Great White Elephant

Saving the Ozone Layer Newsletter

Seal Harbor Library

Seal Harbor Library IRS application

Seal Harbor Survey

Seal Harbor Yatch Club Sails On

Sewing Essentials

Shuttle Disaster Hits Close to Home

Site Details of the Northeast Harbor Golf Club

Site Plan for Proposed Museum

Small pink flowers.

Small white flowers.

Somes Memorial Bridge

Somesvile Fire Station , Somesville, ME, 1986 (4)

Somesville Fire Station, Somesville, ME, 1986 (6)

Somesville Library and The Mount Desert Island Historical Society

Somesville Mill Stream at High Water

Somesville Sewing Circle Book keeping

Someville Sewing Circle Sale List (2)

Southern environmental reporting trip1

Southwest Harbor -Tremont Chamber of Commerce Brochure

Space-Age Defense: Pipe Dream or Protection?

Spiker, LaRue to Energy and Natural Resources Committee

Spiker, LaRue to Gilbert, Louise

Spirit of New England

St. Mary's by the Sea history

Stephen Richardson and Jane Montgomery

Steven Rockefeller and Wendell Gilley

Structural Detail Drawing of Proposed Museum

Styles of the Emerging Nation

Sue O’Neil

Survey of Early American Design

Sweet Gale

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Taking Care of Business Down East: the History of the Bar Harbor Banking and Trust Company 1887-1987

Ten Days on a Maine Rock, an Adventure

The American House: Styles of Architecture

The Bar Harbor Times Volume 76 Number 22

The Conservation Easement Handbook: Managing Land Conservation and Historic Preservation Easement Programs

The DownEast Guide to the Lakes and Ponds of Mt. Desert

The Evolution of Colonial Architecture

The Fiery Intrusion; The Enormous Snow Plow

The Geology of Mount Desert Island

The Harbor Light

The House at Lobster Cove

The Interiors Handbook for Historic Buildings

The Journal of a Gentleman Farmer, 1829-1832.

The Living Past: Being the Story of Somesville Mount Desert, Maine and Its Relationship with Other Areas of the Island

The Living Past: Being the Story of Somesville Mount Desert, Maine and Its Relationships with Other Areas of the Island

The Maine Lobster Boat, 1860-1960

The Peabody Touch: Robert Swain Peabody, Peabody & Stearns

The Rediscovery of America’s Maritime Heritage

The Story of Acadia National Park

The Vertical World of Mt. Desert

The Voyage of the Chianti

This New England, Mount Desert Island, Me

Three Tots

Title Page Museum Bridge Somesville Maine

Town & Country, July 1985

Traditions and Records: Southwest Harbor, and Somesville -- Mount Desert Island, Maine.

Tree Root

Trees with Air Plants and Spanish Moss

Tremont, a Small Town Experiences Growing Pressure

Trip narration letter

Turnips

Turn-Of-The-Century Houses, Cottages and Villas

U

Unknown fisherman

Unknown man on weir pulling net

Unknown man pulling net from water

U.S. Geological Survey map of Salsbury Cove, ME (1981)

U.S. Show Recognizes Work of Early Southwest Harbor Photographer

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Victorian House Coloring Book

Victorian Interior Decoration: American Interiors 1830 - 1900

Village Architecture of Early New England

Virginia Somes Sanderson

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Wake of the Coasters

Warren Fernald 1986

Wendell Gilley (2)

Wheat (2)

Wheat Field

When Hollywood Came to Bar Harbor

Who"s Who: Two John Dows of Cornville, Somerset Co.

Wild Iris

Wild Plant

Wilfred Bunker

Wilfred Bunker sterring Mailboal

Will of Virginia Somes Sanderson

Woman and child on picnic blanket, MDI League of Women Voters picnic,1980

Woman and children working on a craft

Woman in Southwest Harbor, Maine

Woman on boat

Work Horses

Working on Friendship sloop

Y

Yard Sale (2)

Yellow Star Shaped flowers.