1 - 13 of 13 results
Refine Your Search
Subject
- Events✖
- Fire✖
- Object (2)
- Other✖
- 1947 (1)
- Acadia National Park (2)
- Bangor Theological Seminary (1)
- Bar Harbor (1)
- Bar Harbor Fire (4)
- Bar Harbor Savings Bank (1)
- Chambers of commerce (1)
- Coast Guard (1)
- Cottages (1)
- Estates (1)
- Fire engines & equipment (2)
- Fire fighters (1)
- Fire of 1947 (5)
- History - Bar Harbor (1)
- Jackson Laboratory (2)
- Looting (1)
- National Guard (1)
- National Park Service (1)
- Salisbury Cove (1)
- Social life (1)
- Somesville (1)
- University of Maine (1)
- Walkie-talkies (1)
Type
- Document (6)
- Image (1)
- Publication (6)
Place
- none✖
Date
- 1940s✖
Item | Title | Type | Subject | Creator | Publisher | Date | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
12364 | Mount Desert Island's Worst Disaster |
|
|
| Description: photocopy of BH Times, pp. 1-7 Bar Harbor Fire | ||
12365 | Letter to Maine State Publicity Bureau |
|
|
| 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 | ||
3524 | Maine Publicity Bureau Flyer |
|
|
| Description: Biggest Job in 26 Years Faces Publicity Bureau Newspaper clippings (photocopies) of articles about the loss of Bar Harbor after the 1947 fire. There are also letters discussing how to contradict information in the news claiming the fire burned everything. | ||
3781 | Letter to Mrs. Williams |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| Description: Photocopy of Three pictures of Bar Harbor Fire of 1947. Initials DBM Date on side 7-15-87 | ||
3780 | Radio announcements about Fire of !947 |
|
|
| Description: Announcement by unknown radio station of what radio announcer Johnny McCray saw regarding Fire of 1947, 2 photocpies, radio announcement of description of what Superintendent of Public Works, Bangor(?) Reprint on computer | ||
13110 | Scrapbook, newspaper clippings about 1947 Bar Harbor Fire |
|
|
| Description: A green faux leather scrapbook that includes many clippings from the Bar Harbor Times about the 1947 Fire on Mount Desert island. The original owner of the scrapbook is unknown. Many of the pages in the scrapbook are empty. Clippings are affixed to pages with glue. Also includes program for 1948 Vaudeville show and nine pages from Time magazine, Nov. 28, 1949. Contents of the scrapbook have not been scanned. | ||
3523 | ANP account of weather conditions during Fire of 1947 |
|
|
| Description: Account of conditions | ||
3522 | Request for bids of timber by ANP |
|
|
| Description: Call for bids on salvage of timber within Acadia National Park. Appears unsuccessful. | ||
2898 | Health Measures after the Fire |
|
|
| Description: Photocopy Health measures to be taken related to returning evacuees, pledge of funds to Jackson Lab, Red Cross role, Bar Harbor Times | ||
2897 | Society issues related to Fire |
|
|
| Description: Boston Sunday Herald article on decline of BH as resort area, Chamber letter to the editor (photocopy) and photocopy of letter in the Bangor Daily News responding to a letter of Nov 3 of demise of summer homes | ||
2896 | Accounts of Fire of 1947 |
|
|
| Description: Newspaper stories from Boston Post, Bangor Commercial, NY Times (listing places burned and owners) retyped on a computer | ||
2611 | Island Retrospect |
|
|
| Description: 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. |