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Mount Desert Island's Worst Disaster
Item:
  • 12364   
Object ID:
  • 011.FIC.38.1
Catalog:
  • Archives
Type:
  • Publication, Newspaper
Subject:
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Bar Harbor Fire
  • Other, Fire of 1947
Collection:
  • Fire of 1947
Date:
  • Oct 30, 1947
Description:
photocopy of BH Times, pp. 1-7 Bar Harbor Fire
Radio announcements about Fire of !947
Item:
  • 3780   
Object ID:
  • 011.FIC.39.1
Catalog:
  • Archives
Type:
  • Publication, Literary, Speech
Subject:
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Fire engines & equipment
Collection:
  • Fire 1947
Date:
  • Oct 1947
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
The Mount Desert Messenger
Item:
  • 18684   
Object ID:
  • 001-118.9.14
Catalog:
  • Archives
Type:
  • Publication, Newsletter
Collection:
  • Donald Smith
Date:
  • October 15, 1943
Description:
10 page Newsletter printed by Parish of St. Mary's and St. Jude. Gives curret news of the Parish and service men seerving in World War II. There is also a list of service men and their current addresses should anyone wish to write them.
The Mount Desert Messenger
Item:
  • 18683   
Object ID:
  • 001-118.9.15
Catalog:
  • Archives
Type:
  • Publication, Newsletter
Collection:
  • Donald Smith
Date:
  • November 8, 1942
Description:
10 page Newsletter printed by Parish of St. Mary's and St. Jude. Gives curret news of the Parish and service men seerving in World War II. There is also a list of service men and their current addresses should anyone wish to write them.
The Last Resorts
Item:
  • 17236   
Object ID:
  • 001-128
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Recreation
Creator:
  • Amory, Cleveland
Publisher:
  • Harper and Brothers
Date:
  • 1948.
Description:
Describes how the great resorts have fallen
Newsletter of The Mount Desert Messenger (1945)
Item:
  • 17161   
Object ID:
  • 006.56.7
Catalog:
  • Archives
Type:
  • Publication, Newsletter
Subject:
  • Other, Newspapers
  • Other, War
  • Other, War correspondents
Date:
  • 1945
Description:
Newsletter of The Mount Desert Messenger (1945) - volume LVI. Thanksgiving/Christmas issue. Sections include: "News From The Home Front" - local and war news including recent war discharges - and "News From The Camps" - listing local soldiers and their regiments.
Birds of Mt. Desert Island Acadia National Park.
Item:
  • 17121   
Object ID:
  • 996-20-20
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Natural History
Creator:
  • Tyson, Carroll S. and James Bond.
Publisher:
  • Waverly Press
Date:
  • 1941.
Special Paper Maine Fire Disaster
Item:
  • 14783   
Object ID:
  • 011.FIC.98.1
Catalog:
  • Archives
Type:
  • Publication, Newspaper
Subject:
  • Events, Fire
Date:
  • 1947
Description:
Picture record of Bar Harbor Fire of 1947
Baymeath
Item:
  • 14651   
Object ID:
  • 012.009.3
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Cottages
Creator:
  • Bowen, Louise deKoven
Publisher:
  • Privately printed
Date:
  • 1945
Description:
Written when author was 85 years old, an account of her family's times at "Baymeath" in Bar Harbor. Preface is written to her grandson, Capt. Wm. McCormick Blair, Jr., who was serving during WWII in India.
Life Magazine, June12, 1944
Item:
  • 13901   
Object ID:
  • 013.FIC.27
Catalog:
  • Archives
Type:
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
Date:
  • 1944
Description:
Aerial photo. on cover of bombs falling on an oil refinery in Leghorn, Italy; title on cover, "Invasion by Air."
Gilmanac 1944
Item:
  • 13763   
Object ID:
  • 013.FIC.13.1
Catalog:
  • Archives
Type:
  • Publication, Yearbook
Date:
  • 1944
Description:
“Gilmanac 1944” Gilman High School yearbook - belonged to J. Walter Allen. Class of 1944 - Editorials, class members, class song, motto “We Finish to Begin”. Class notes for freshman, sophomores and juniors. Literary section with poetry etc. Basketball team pictures, records. Alumni section.
Gilmanac 1948 Gilman High School Yearbook
Item:
  • 13759   
Object ID:
  • 006.12.1
Catalog:
  • Archives
Type:
  • Publication, Yearbook
Subject:
  • Other, Northeast Harbor
  • Other, Schools
Date:
  • 1948
Description:
"Gilmanac 1948" - Yearbook of Gilman High School in Northeast Harbor
The Social Service Review
Item:
  • 13503   
Object ID:
  • 014.FIC.008.02
Catalog:
  • Archives
Type:
  • Publication, Book, Journal
Subject:
  • Other, Miscellaneous
Date:
  • 1941
Description:
Volume XV of the Social Service Review, in which LaRue Spiker has written an article titled "Rural Housing Conditions in an Illinois Township".
Between the Hills and Its 100 - Year Old Church
Item:
  • 13440   
Object ID:
  • 002-44-2-2414
Catalog:
  • Archives
Type:
  • Publication, Literary, Speech
Subject:
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, History - Somesville
Date:
  • 7/14/1940
Description:
15 page Sermon / historical address given by Rev. Horace H. Leavitt, D.D. on the history of the Somesville Union Meeting House, U.C.C.
Handicrafts of New England
Item:
  • 12956   
Object ID:
  • 010.FIC.490
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Handicrafts
  • Other, New England
Creator:
  • Eaton, Allen H.
Publisher:
  • Harper Bros.
Date:
  • 1949
Description:
Includes background of pilgrim and arts and craft handicrafts as well as woodworking, spinning, weaving, knitting, dying, pottery, carving, needlework, silversmithing, and more.
Summer Yesterdays in Maine: Memories of Boyhood Vacation Days
Item:
  • 12884   
Object ID:
  • 000-1-271
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, Maine
  • Recreation
Creator:
  • Sperry, Willard L.
Publisher:
  • Harper Brothers
Date:
  • 1941
Description:
A reminiscence by the author of his vacation days beginning in 1885 and continuing for about 40 years in York Co., Maine. He pays special tribute to the illustrator, Charles H. Woodbury
More Vacation Days in Maine. Signed by the author.
Item:
  • 12872   
Object ID:
  • 000-13-283
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, Maine
  • Recreation
Creator:
  • Hasenfus, Nathaniel J.
Publisher:
  • Sagadahoc Publishing Co.
Date:
  • 1949
Description:
Sequel to We Summer in Maine by same author, but exploring further to such places as Boston, Bar Harbor, Bangor, Harpswell, Camden, Pemaquid, Mohegan [sic] and Moosehead Lake.
Windswept
Item:
  • 12868   
Object ID:
  • 000-14-284
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, Fiction
  • Other, Maine
Creator:
  • Chase, Mary Ellen
Publisher:
  • MacMillan
Date:
  • 1941
Description:
This is a work of fiction by Maine writer Mary Ellen Chase. It is Inscribed “Harriet S. Sanderson, January 1942” on title page and appears to be a first edition. A review by Bess Jones from an unidentified source is pasted inside the back cover.
Early American Decoration
Item:
  • 12859   
Object ID:
  • 000-39-309
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Object, Art
  • Other, Antiques
Creator:
  • Brazer, Esther Stevens
Publisher:
  • Clarence W. Brazer
Date:
  • 1947
Description:
Gives information about the techniques of decorating early American furniture, walls, tinware, etc. and also gives instructions about how to do that oneself. Covers stenciling, applying gold leaf, japanning, oil-painted boxes and chests Envelope inside front cover contains cut stencils.
Land of Enchantment: The Penobscot Bay - Mount Desert Region of Maine.
Item:
  • 12858   
Object ID:
  • 000-4-274
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Penobscot Bay
Creator:
  • Stiles, Dan
Publisher:
  • Sugar Ball Press
Date:
  • 1946
Description:
A brief history of the region with special attention to Belfast, Camden, Rockland, Castine, Deer Isle and Stonington, Mount Desert and Bar Harbor, Vinalhaven and North Haven, and smaller islands (Isle au Haut, Swan's, and others). Map of area inside front and back covers. Virginia Somes Sanderson's bookplate inside front cover
The Flower Guide: A Pocket Manual of the Wild Flowers East of the Rockies.
Item:
  • 12751   
Object ID:
  • 999-9-269
Catalog:
  • Archives
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, Flowers
Creator:
  • Reed, Chester A.
Publisher:
  • Doubleday Doran and Co.
Date:
  • 1940
Let’s Look Around
Item:
  • 12606   
Object ID:
  • 001-159.1
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, Fiction
  • Other, Reading
Creator:
  • Arthur I Gates & Jean Ayer
Publisher:
  • Macmillan Company
Date:
  • 1940
Description:
short stories for teaching reading, pronouncing dictionary.
John D. Rockefeller 1839-1937 Industrial Pioneer and Man
Item:
  • 12593   
Object ID:
  • 002-59-2-2333.1
Catalog:
  • Archives
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • People
Collection:
  • John D. Rockefeller
Date:
  • 1948
Description:
A Biography of John D. Rockefeller 32 pages for the Newcomen Society of England in North America by W. Trevor Holliday
Maine Province and Court Records Vol. 3
Item:
  • 12589   
Object ID:
  • 000-24-294
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, History
  • Other, Law & legal affairs
  • Other, Maine
Creator:
  • Moody, Robert E., ed.
Publisher:
  • Anundsen Publishing Co.
Date:
  • 1947
Description:
Reprint of the first three volumes of six that were published by the Maine Historical Society between 1928 and 1975. Vol. III contains the Province of Maine Records 1680-1692.
The Story of Bar Harbor: an Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years In the Life of a Community
Item:
  • 12575   
Object ID:
  • 002-47.31
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, History
Creator:
  • Hale, Richard Walden Jr.
Publisher:
  • Ives Washburn Inc.
Date:
  • 1949
Description:
History of Bar Harbor from approximately 1800-1950 According to the introduction, this book was written to "find out what had made it [Bar Harbor] what it was". The book was written at the time of the Bar Harbor fire and covers early explorers and claimants, settlers, town of Eden, artists, cottagers, summer colony, and more.