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2900 | Personal accounts of Bar Harbor Fire, 1947 |
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| Description: 3 short pieces of perspectives on the Fire; role of the Navy in the fire, Perspective of Jim Butler Bar Harbor Times ,10/13/1983, written by Dotty Cooke. A first hand account of the 1947 Bar Harbor fire as told by Dotty Cooke. Ellsworth American account LaRue Spiker of 1942 fire 25 years ago 1967 account of 1947 fire supplement in Bar Harbor Times | ||
12364 | Mount Desert Island's Worst Disaster |
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| Description: photocopy of BH Times, pp. 1-7 Bar Harbor Fire | ||
12365 | Letter to Maine State Publicity Bureau |
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| Description: Letter to Guy Butler from W.H. Ballard and short response. Suggestions of ways to counteract bad publicity indicating that the whole state, MDI, Bar Harbor have been destroyed by the fire of 47 | ||
3781 | Letter to Mrs. Williams |
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| Description: Unknown who wrote letter regarding recollection of Bar Harbor Fire, Fire of 1947 from Somesville, trying to get firefighters to Salisbury Cove | ||
12363 | Copies of pics from Fire of 1947 |
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| Description: Photocopy of Three pictures of Bar Harbor Fire of 1947. Initials DBM Date on side 7-15-87 | ||
13493 | Wildfire Loose: The Week Maine Burned |
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| Description: Description of the progression of fires throughout Maine in fall, 1947. Describes drought that affected the state. Several chapters have sections on Mount Desert Island. Photos include aerial view of Bar Harbor, burned public buildings and homes in Bar Harbor, including Jackson Lab. Photo of firefighters with Indian pumps. Third edition, 1997. |