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1880 Map Showing Route of Steamers Connecting Mount Desert Island with Eastern R.R. for Boston
1881 Map of Mount Desert Island, Maine
1881 Map of Mount Desert Village (Somesville), Maine
1881 Map of the Village of Bar Harbor, Town of Eden, Maine
1882 Contract between HH Clark and James Grining
1885 Map of Mount Desert and Adjacent Islands, Maine
1886 Bird's Eye View of Bar Harbor, Maine
1887 Colby & Stuart map of Mount Desert Island
1887 Map of Mount Desert Island and the Coast of Maine, Boston and Maine RR
1887 Map of Mount Desert Island, Maine
1887 marriage certificate for Loren Rumill and Myra Clark
1887 Scientific American Plans for a Residence in Kansas City, Missouri
1889 Bar Harbor Record Newspaper from March 14
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A Champlain Society Reunion about 1882
A Dictionary of the English Language. With supplement
A. K. Chase application to GAR post
A Practical English Grammar...
A Residence in Kansas City, Missouri
Abstract of Title for H.M. Hobart
A.C. Savage, GAR Post application
Addition to House for Lieut. R. G. Davenport
Addition to House for S. D. Sargeant
Administration of Estate of Daniel Somes
Administration of Estate of Henry Somes
Advertisement for Albert W. Bee, Stationer, Bar Harbor, Maine
Advertising envelope from Ceo. M. Tower, Buckboard Builder, Bar Harbor, Maine.
Advertising envelope from Osmond Emery, Painter, Bar Harbor, Maine.
Affidavit supporting William P. Smith's ownership and occupation of land
Albert Brown, GAR Post application
Albert Wilson Bee, Stationery Stores, Bar Harbor, Maine 1887
Alexandra Cottage - Dr. Abigail Mary (Redman) Fulton Cottage
Alteration and Addition to House for Moorfield Storey
Among the Lily Pads at Echo Lake
Anna Holden Payson Bee - Mrs. Albert Wilson Bee and Children
Announcement of Marriage Fuller and Manchester
Annual Report - Peaked Hill Bar Life Saving Station, 1885
Approaches to Blue Hill Bay and Eggemoggin Reach
Asticou Inn and cottages connected
Atlas of Hancock County, Maine.
Atlas of Hancock County Maine {Black and White}
Atlas of Hancock County Maine {Colored}{Copy 1}
Atlas of Hancock County Maine {Colored}{Copy 2}
Atlas of Washington County, Maine:
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Balance Rock, Bar Harbor, Maine
Bar Harbor Days (2)
Bar Harbor Record “Memoirs of Mount Desert Part VI”
Bar Harbor Record: “Memoirs of Mount Desert Part II”
Bar Harbor Record: “Memoirs of Mount Desert Part III”
Bar Harbor Record: “Memoirs of Mount Desert Part IV”
Bar Harbor Record: “Memoirs of Mount Desert Part VII”
Bar Harbor Tourist paper, Aug 11, 1880
Bartholomew Family, Historical, Genealogical & Biographical
Base and spinning wheel head for a 'walking' or 'great' spinning wheel
Bear Island Light and the Coal Dock
Benjamin H. Dodge, GAR Post application
Bertie and Freddy Birlem book - Barnes New National readers
Bill from W.B. Campbell to Dr. H.M. Hobart
Bill of Sale between Jacob Higgins and Thomas Church
Bird's Eye View of Bar Harbor, Mt. Desert Island
Bird's Eye View of Peak's Island, Portland Harbor
Bird's Eye View of Pittsfield, Maine Looking Northwest
Blue Hill Bay and Western Part of Mount Desert Island
Bond for Deed, Reuben W. Carter to Bloomfield Smith
Book 230, Treasury Depart. regarding Life Saving Service
Buckboard Party Passing Sand Beach
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Cadillac's Harbor of Mount Desert from Bear Island
Camp Champlain - 1880 and 1881
Casino Trick Skating Advertisement Card
Certificate of Lodge of Masons
Certificate of Marriage. Beniah Bunker and Josie S. Stanley
Certificate of Ordination as Deacon - William Thomas Manning
Champlain Club Camp and Yacht "Sunshine" Logs 1880
Champlain Society at Hadlock Pond Brook in 1881
Champlain Society - In the Parlor Tent at Camp Pemetic
Champlain Society | Report of the Ichthyological. | Department. | 1880.
Champlain Society - View of Camp Pemetic from the Hill to the East
Champlain Society - Visitors at Camp Pemetic on Somes Sound (2)
Champlain Society at Hadlock Brook
Champlain Society Camp Pemetic
Champlain Society Camp Pemetic 1880
Champlain Society Camp Pemetic 1881
Champlain Society Camp Pemetic on Somes Sound
Champlain Society Group at Camp Pemetic 1880
Champlain Society Group at Hadlock Pond Brook
Champlain Society Members at Camp Pemetic
Champlain Society Members at Camp Pemetic - Group at the Fence Overlooking Somes Sound
Champlain Society Records | Camp Asticou Log | 1883
Champlain Society Records | Camp Log 1884
Champlain Society Records Camp Asticou Log 1882
Charles B. Gilley, GAR Post application
Charles Eliot's notes on the early explorers of the New England coast.
Chart #3, Mount Desert Island 1883
Chart of the Outer Islands of Mount Desert Island
Chisholms Mount Desert Guide Book, page 72
Chisolm's Mount Desert Guide-Book, page 75
City of Bangor (Penboscot Co.)
Clark Point Area from the Freeman House
Coast Chart No. 4 Penobscot Bay Maine
Colby Atlas of Hancock County Maine 1881
Colby’s Atlas of Hancock County Maine 1881
Consecration of the Chapel of St. Mary by the Sea
Conversations on the Bible. Its Statements Harmonized and Mysteries Explained.
Copies of Map of Cranberry Isles
Copy of a letter from Post Office topographer's office to Mount Desert Post Office 9/21/1885
Copy of West Point Park, Mount Desert, 1888
Correspondence between Bishop Doane and Charles Eliot
Correspondence between Cora and Fred Savage
Cranberry Islands Property Map
Curtis Hamor membership, James Parker Post, GAR.
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Daniel K. Brown, GAR Post application
Daniel S. Mooney. GAR Post application
David H. Paine GAR Post application
Deacon Henry Higgins Clark and the Staff of the Island House Hotel
Deed: Charles H. Frazier to George J. Joy
Deed: Charles H. Frazier to Northeast Harbor Water Company
Deed: Charles H. Frazier to Samuel K. Whiting
Deed from Daniel Somes to the Parkers
Deed: Levi A. Wyman to Herbert E. Sawyer, 1888
Delorian A. Higgins, James M. Parker GAR Post application
Description and diagrams of 3 Davenport parcels
Divisions of Benjamin Richardson Estate (Plan B)
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Eagle Lake (2)
Eastern Yacht Club Pier, Bar Harbor, ME
Edgar L. Roberts, James M. Parker GAR Post application
Edgecliff - Summer Residence of Samuel Morse and Annie Sawyer Downs - Line Drawing
Edwin H. Cunningham GAR Post application
Edwin L. Higgins at his Blacksmith Shop with Simeon Holden Mayo (2)
Eldridge's Chart of Long Island Sound, from New Port to New York
Elizabeth Rebecca Whitmore and Gladys Ella Whitmore (2)
Elvira Higgins Cough with her Children
Envelope and postcard with stamps sent from Bar Harbor.
Envelope with postmark Mount Desert July 12, 1887
Epidendrum atropurpureum var. Randi L. Lind. & Rod.
Ernest E. Emery's Photography Studio Logo - Reverse of a Cabinet Card
Ernest Lovering and Edward Lothrop Rand at Squid Cove
F
Face To Face, Trifet's Monthly Galaxy of Music
Fernald Store Sales book, Apr.-June, 1889
Fernald Store Sales book, Aug. -Oct., 1889
Fernald Store Sales Book Oct. 1889
Fiday Club By-Laws and Consitution
Florence N. Stanley, Mrs. Clarence Clark
Freeman Store, Southwest Harbor
Front Street (South Shore Road)
G
Gentleman's Tent and Breakfast Time
George B. Mitchell, James M. Parker GAR Post
Gilbert H. Hodgson (?), GAR Post application
Gilparick's Cove with Rock End Hotel and the Wedge
"Golden-Rod, An Idyll of Mount Desert" Book by Constance Cary Harrison
Good as Gold: A New Collection of Sunday School Songs
Great Gott Island - Pool and Bar
Green Mountain from Eagle Lake
Green Mountain House - New and Open for Business.
Green Mountain Railway Excursion Steamer Wauwinet on Eagle Lake
Green Mountain Railway Terminal at Eagle Lake
Green Mountain Railway towards Eagle Lake (2)
Green Mountain Railway Tracks, long upgrade view
Green Mountain Railway, tracks on view toward Eagle Lake terminal
Greenleaf's New Practical Arithmatic
Griswold's Life of Henry Ward Beecher
Group Photo of Teacher and Students, Including Seven Carroll Children, at the Norwood Cove School
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Hand Drawn Map of Clark Point, Southwest Harbor, Maine, Circa 1885
Hand Drawn Map of the Area of the Village of Center and Seal Cove Pond
Henry C. Moore, James M. Parker GAR Post application
High School Reporter Newsletter
Historical notes nos. I-V.Champlain Society
Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments
House at Indian Head, Northeast Harbor
Howard M. Gilley, GAR Post application
I
Indentures of Smith E. Spurling 1884
Index Running of Seal Harbor Realty Company Half Acre Lot, also Hoe-Dakin Lot
Indians and Canoes on the Shore at Bar Harbor
Inside passage between Bath and Boothbay Harbor,
Intention of Marriage, Gillman Stanley & MayStanley
Invitation to reception for Gov. Robie
Isaac C. Dow, GAR Post application
J
J. M. Mason application to James Parker Post, GAR
Jane Augusta Jennie (Lathrop) Rand, Mrs. Edward Sprague Rand's New House
John M. Pierce, GAR Post application
John Melbourne Rich House III - Original House Plans
John S. Smith, GAR Post application
Joseph R. Worster application James Parker Post, GAR.
Joseph Warren Gilley Jr. and His Family on Baker Island - Circa 1917
Journal of Voyage to the Island of Mt Desart
K
Keeper Roscoe G. Lopaus and Family, Baker Island Light Station
Kidd's Treasure: Is it Buried at Fernald's Point?
Kimball House, Northeast Harbor
Kimball Point from Eliot's House
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Laying out a tennis court on the Roberts House lawn
Letter 1 of 3 from Wm H to Wm P Preble
Letter from Carlton McGown to Charles Eliot
Letter from Office of the Light-house to Keeper of Bear Island Lighthouse
Letter from P. S. Moore to Mr. Preble
Letter from Small to Preble re: weir
Letter to Enoch Stanley re: fish sales
Letter to Eugene Stanley re account of his father
Letter to Stanley re: vessels for sale
Lisa Caroline (Mayo) Wilkinson
List of barrels of oil from Schooner S. L. Foster and others
List of Scholars, District 3, Mt. Desert (Photocopy)
List of the children of E. L. and R? Gott
Location of Bryant Bradley Studio, Bar Harbor, Maine
Logo of B.F.Joy's Photographic Art Studio on the reserve of a cabinet photo
Looking up Northeast Harbor to The Roberts House
Lydia Wood with family at Jordan Pond
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Maine State Year-Book and Legislative Manual for the year 1882-83
Man with dark hair large mustache and wool suit
Map of Mount Desert Island (6)
Map of Mount Desert Island copyright 1887
Marlborough Hotes, Bar Harbor, by Frank E. Claes, 1884
Marriage Certificate: Clarence Clark & Florence Stanley
Marriage Certificate: Lester Pray and Kate Heath
Martha Newman, Cherryfield Maine to mother Mary Newman, 1889
Mary Anne Carroll and Students, Eden, Maine
Maurice R. Rich, GAR Post application
Memories Party on the steps of The Roberts House
Montreville Clark Gilley House
Mortgage release for George N. Spurling
Mount Desert & Adjacent Islands, Embracing the Towns of Eden, Mount Desert, Tremont, Cranberry Isles
Mount Desert and adjacent islands
Mount Desert and Adjacent Islands
Mount Desert Herald, Julne 21, 1883
Mount Desert List of Students and road workers
Mount Desert Memories - Chronicles of the Mount Desert Party
Mount Desert Memories Party on the steps of The Roberts House
Mount-Desert Guide-Book, page 70
Mourning Card, Hollis Edmond Fernald, 1889
Mt Desert Dramatic Company, Nick of the Woods Advertising, 1880
Mt. Desert House on Main Street in Somesville - Between 1888 and 1904
Mt. Desert Reading Room Share Receipt
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National Archives Reproductions
Native American Camp at Bar Harbor - "Indian Village" First Location
Nests and eggs of the birds of the United States
New Year’s card from Morey Churchill & Morey of Boston, “Crockery, Lamps, Gas Fixtures.”
News article re: Bar Harbor post office
Newsclipping: "Memoirs of Mount Desert"
Newspaper supplemetn: Adamson’s Cough Balsam Advertising Book
Notebook: Lectures by M. M. Bigelow, 1888
Notes from Aug 1, 1884-Aug 23, 1884 (2)
Notes on the Champlain Society
O
Ocean House Hotel and Landing After Remodeling
Octavia Fifield Millinery, Bernard, Maine - I - Between 1887 and 1896
Octavia Fifield Millinery, Bernard, Maine - II - Between 1887 and 1896
Old Masonic Hall and J.T. Crippen Company
Old Masonic Hall and Odd Fellows Building
On Top of Newport Mountain, Mount Desert
Opinion on A.C. Fernald at CI Town meetings
Original Christmas card painted by Daisy Doane.
Original Stanley House Hotel with Mansard Roof
Otter Creek showing Russian Tea Room
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Painting of Brig Carrie F. Dix - Lisbon 1882
Party of Young People Playing on the Road Being Built Down Green Mountain
Passenger Launch Steamer Agnes
Patrick Murphy GAR Applications
Patrick O'Connor James Parker Post, GAR.
Penobscot Bay, 1880. Chart #4.
People on steps of Harbor Cottages, Northeast Harbor
Photo Album (2)
Photocopy of Colby & Stuart Map of Mount Desert and adjacent islands (1887) (6)
Photos, autographs, and sentiments 1885-1887
Pinky Schooner off the Manset Shore
Plan of Lands at Head of Somes Sound
Portrait of Marshall Perry Slade
Portrait of young girl sitting on knee of elderly man
Postcard showing Green Mountain Railway, Mt. Desert, Maine and Sternwheel Steamer "Wauwinet"
Print - Bird’s Eye View of Bar Harbor
Q
Quit-Claim Deed Harvey F. Deming
Quit-Claim Deed, Heirs of Jacob Somes to William P. Smith
Quit-Claim Deed, John J. Somes et al to William P. Smith
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Receipt for Items purchased in Store
Receipt for Preble's purchase of netting
Receipt for Schooner Lizzie Maud payment
Receipt for Schooner S.L. Foster repairs
Receipt made out to Mrs. Spurling
Receipts and notes Preble and Stanley
Receipts for Schooner Lizzie Maud
Register of Arrivals and Departures - Post Office 1884
Register of Arrivals and Departures - Post Office 1886
Register of Arrivals and Departures - Post Office 1887
Report of a Committee of the No. East Harbor Association for the Protection of the Woods from Fire
Reunion of the 1880 Members of the Champlain Society
Road above Northeast Harbor looking south
Road on east side of Somes Sound
Roosevelt - Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)
Rusticators Above Spouting Horn
Rusticators Climbing Newport Mountain - 1886
S
S.A. Eliot Essay on de Champlain 1882, on CD
Samuel de Champlain April 1882
Samuel Watson Herrick at His Store and Custom House
Sargent, Bubble, and Pemetic Mountains
School Agent's Census, 1882, District 1
School Agent's Census Return 1888
Schooner E.T. Hamor in Somes Cove (2)
Schooner E.T. Hamor Sailing Out of Portland - After 1889
Schooner Palestine in Deacon's Harbor and Indian Lot
Schooner Palestine in Deacon's Harbor, Clark Point
Share Transfer: H. Edwin Stanley vs. Levi B. Wyman et al.
Shares in Mt. Desert Steamboat Wharf Co.
Sidewheel Steamer Mount Desert in Bar Harbor
Sketchbook of a summer at the Stanley House Hotel
Sketches at Manchester by the Sea Kragsyde
Sloop Yacht "Sunshine" off High Head
Somesville from Colby Atlas (photo)
South Shore Road looking west.
South West Harbor, Town of Tremont
Southwest Harbor High School Students
Southwest Harbor, Town of Tremont
St. Mary's Church and Magnum Donum
St. Saviour's Episcopal Church, Bar Harbor - After 1886
Stamped envelope sent from Southwest Harbor post office,1883
Stanley House Cabinet Card, c. 1880
State of Maine Examination Questions for teachers
Steamer Sappho at Steamboat Wharf in Southwest Harbor - Between 1886 and 1911
Steamer Sappho at Steamer Wharf in Southwest Harbor - Between 1886 and 1911
Stephen M. Gilley GAR applications
Stephen Smallidge, GAR Post application
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Teacher's Certificate for Florence (Whelpley) Ober
Teacher’s manual for Prang’s shorter course in form study and drawing
The Augustus Bowman Farnham Cottage, Southwest Harbor, Maine
"The Bar Harbor Blue Book and Mount Desert Guide"
The Celebration of the Two Hundred & Fiftieth Anniversary of Ipswich
The Claremont House and Tennis Court
The Claremont House and Tennis Court - Panorama
The Claremont House and The Pemetic, The Castle, Hotels From the Water
The Claremont House Slip with Sailboats
The Clark Point Area and Greening Island from Freeman Ridge
The Complete Arithmetic, Oral and Written
The First Southwest Harbor Water Resevoir, Freeman Spring - View from the James Freeman House
The Freeman House with People on Porch and Balcony
The Geology of Mount Desert Island.
The Haunted Ship, a Strange Legend of Mount Desert
The Home Library of Useful Knowledge.
The Island House (2)
The Island House - Southwest Harbor
The Island House in 1885-1886 - After Expansion
The Island House with Board Sidewalk
The Island House with Fences and Trees
The Ladies Home Companion June 15, 1887 Vol XIV # 14
The Ladies' Note-Book and Calendar
The Latest about the Accident at Northeast Harbor
The Marlborough Hotel, Bar Harbor
The Mountain House - Jacob and Rebecca Carroll and their Children, Southwest Harbor
The New England Fireside Vol V #4.
The New Yacht Yampa: Putting the Finishing Touches to Mr. Chapin's Steel Schooner
The Ocean House Slip and Boats
The Original, Enlarged Stanley House Burning on July 10, 1884 (2)
The Original Ocean House - Draped for a Patriotic Celebration
The Passamaquoddy Encampment at Bar Harbor Newspaper Article
The Rebuilt Stanley House - After 1884
The Sea Serpent, His Visit to Southwest Harbor
The Southwest Harbor Congregational Church - I
The Stanley House - After Rebuilt
The Summer School of Philosophy at Mt Desert.
The William Patch Dickey Cottage, Southwest Harbor, Maine
The Worlds Method for Cornet and Sax-Horn Part I
To Mary Newman from Charlotte Newman, in Ellsworth, 1882
Topography of Mount Desert Island and Islands to the Southward
Transcription of Letters from Stephen Manchester to Comfort Manchester Stanley
Transparency of 1887 Colby & Stuart map of MDI (20.5" x 18")
Transparency of Colby & Stuart map of 1887 (12" x 10")
Transparency of Colby & Stuart Map of Mount Desert and adjacent islands, 1887
Tremont, subsection 1, Colby & Stuart map, 1887
Tremont, subsection 2, Colby & Stuart map, 1887
Tremont, subsection 3, Colby & Stuart map, 1887
Tremont, subsection 4, Colby & Stuart 1887 map
Tremont, subsection 5, Colby & Stuart 1887 map
Tremont, subsection 6, Colby & Stuart 1887 map
Two Christmas cards - Mabel A. Mayhen
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Union Church, Northeast Harbor Me.
United States Life-Saving Service - Cranberry Isles Station
Unknown child sitting on a folding chair
U.S.Post Office Department registered package (large envelope) sent from Southwest Harbor
USS Dolphin off Wheelwright point
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Valuation of the Town of Mount Desert A.D. 1880
Valuation of the Town of Mount Desert for the year 1881
Valuation of the Town of Mount Desert for the year 1882
Valuation of the Town of Mount Desert for the year 1884
Valuation of the Town of Mount Desert for the year 1885
Valuation of the Town of Mount Desert for the year 1886
Valuation of the Town of Mount Desert for the year 1887
Valuation of the Town of Mount Desert for the year 1888
Valuation of the Town of Mount Desert for the year 1889
View across the lawn of The Roberts House to Northeast Harbor
View looking toward the Wedge and the Rock End Hotel, Northeast Harbor
View of Fishing Boats in Southwest Harbor from Freeman Ridge
View of the Shorefront at Bar Harbor from the West End Hotel
View of Unknown Boat from Deck of Sidewheel Steamer Mount Desert
Village of Belmont, North Part, Mass
Visitors at Camp Pemetic on Somes Sound 1880 (2)
Visitors at Champlain Society Camp 1880
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Warranty Deed, William P. Smith to Henry M. Hobert
Wedding announcement for Mary Francis Cushman and John Andrew Peters, Jr.
Wedding Certificate George W. Douglass to Lucy R. Spurling
West Pembroke and Pennamaquan Bay
West Point Cottage, Pretty Marsh, Maine
William C. Moore GAR certificate
William H. Ward Sr. Approval for Wharf Extension by the Selectmen of Tremont
William Holden and Lucy Ella (Lawler) Whitmore
William P. Preble appointed Notary Public
William P. Preble ledgers (1873-1890s)