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9214Second Annual Report and Financing Assistance for Tourism Attractions
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Maine
  • Recreation
  • Maine Recreation Authority
  • 1968
Description:
Single page folded Annual Report of the Maine Recreation Authority and a 16 page booklet, unstapled, explaining the program and legal authority for the organization to fund construction and expansion of recreational facilities in Maine. Part of LaRue Spiker Collection Previously archived as object id 012.FIC.058.6
17308Mount Desert Island Maine: Guide and Directory.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Guidebook
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Joy, Barbara C. and Marjorie Camp
  • Bar Harbor Times Publishing Co.
  • 1960.
17302Organizing a Local Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Guidebook
  • Other, Historical Societies
  • Silvestro, Clement M.
  • American Association for State and Local History
  • 1968.
17284Customs on the Tabletop.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Food
  • Other, History
  • Sprackling, Helen
  • Sturbridge Village
  • 1966.
17269The Management of Small History Museums
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Management
  • Other, Museums
  • Guthe, Carl
  • American Assoc. for State and Local History
  • 1964.
17268Milk Glass Addenda
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Glassware
  • Warman, Edwin G.
  • E.G. Warman Publishing Co
  • 1966
17265The Village Mill in Early New England
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Mills
  • Other, New England
  • Hamilton, Edward P.
  • Old Sturbridge Village
  • 1964
17225The Maine Coast:Time of Decision
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, History
  • Other, Maine
  • McKee, John
  • Bowdoin College Center for Resouce Studies
  • 1967
17208Time of Decision
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Coast
  • Other, Maine
  • Bowdoin College
  • 1967.
17190The Story of Mount Desert Island, Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Discovery & exploration
  • Other, History
  • Other, Indians of North America
  • Other, Islands
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Steamships
  • Morison, Samuel Eliot
  • Little Brown
  • 1960
17189The Story of Mount Desert Island
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Discovery & exploration
  • Other, History
  • Other, Indians of North America
  • Other, Islands
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Steamships
  • Morison, Samuel Eliot
  • Islandport Press
  • 1960
17148The Cracker Barrel
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Stores & shops
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Funk and Wagnalls
  • 1967
Description:
Illustrations and anecdotes dedicated to the general store
17146ABC Book of Early Americana
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Agriculture
  • Other, Tools and Implements
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Doubleday and Company
  • 1963
Description:
Illustrations of early American tools and articles
17107Forest Trees of Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Maine
  • Other, Natural history
  • Other, Trees
  • Maine Forestry Dept.
  • 1968
17099Historical Notes on Mount Desert Island
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Joy, Barbara Ellen
  • 1966
16989Edith Hamilton; An Intimate Portrait
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Greek Mythology
  • Other, Roman Mythology
  • Other, Seal Harbor
  • Other, Seawall
  • Reid, Doris Fielding
  • w w Norton and Company Inc
  • 1967
Description:
This book describes Edith Hamilton's life and her work with Greek and Roman mythology and history. She summered in Seal Harbor for several years and loved Mount Desert Island so much that she bought a summer house in Seawall in 1917 where she spent a great deal of time, including the winter of 1926.
16981Jones Tracy, Tall Tale Teller from Mount Desert
  • Publication, Book
  • Richard Lunt
  • 1968
Description:
Vol X in Northeast Folklore Series, published in 1968. Tall tales and anecdotes about MDI families (Manring, Smallidge, Carroll, Holmes, Somes, Storer and Reed among them) and particularly about Jones Tracy (1856-1939).
16947The American Builder's Companion
  • Publication, Book
  • Benjamin, Asher
  • 1969
Description:
The American Builder's Companion
16558Edith Hamilton: an Intimate Portrait
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Seawall
  • Reid, Doris Fielding
  • 1967
Description:
Biography of Edith Hamilton, who lived for awhile at Sea Wall. Inscribed Marion Holmes in front.
16551History of the Maine Woods.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Forests
  • Other, History
  • Other, Maine
  • Coolidge, Philip T.
  • Furbush-Roberts
  • 1963
16521Green Grows Bar Harbor: reflections from Kebo Valley
  • Publication, Book
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Kebo
  • Recreation, Sports, Golf
  • Collier, Sargent F.
  • 1964
Description:
History of Bar Harbor, with photographs by Sargent Collier. Includes chapters on Acadia National Park, social and club life, island laboratories, Bar Harbor-Yarmouth ferry, Fire of 1947, Kebo Valley Golf Club, Bar Harbor Club, Pot and Kettle Club, the Building of Arts, Great Automobile War. Mentions performances of the Boston Symphony at the Building of Arts.
14655Native Birds of Mount Desert Island
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Natural History
  • Bond, James
  • Livingston Publishing Co.
  • 1969
Description:
Indicate the habitats of all the birds that breed on or near MDI during the past fifty years. Ian Fleming named his James Bond after the well known ornithologist who summered in Pretty Marsh. (description added by AC 2011)
14646Down Memory Lane
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Biography
  • Other, Northeast Harbor
  • Other, Reynolds, Emily Phillips
  • Reynolds, Emily Phillips
  • D. Mitchell and Crew
  • 1966
Description:
Emily Phillips Reynolds memoir of her childhood and early days in 1900's.
14164Robert Swain Peabody of Peabody and Stearns in Boston the Early Years (1870-1886)
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architects
  • Other, Peabody, Robert Swain
  • Holden, Wheaton Arnold
  • unpublished
  • 1969
Description:
Doctoral thesis on Robert Swain Peaboy, design partner in prominent Boston architectural firm Photocopy only - probably a gift of author, Wheaton Arnold Holden
13706Record book for traveling crooks, Watson Robbins
  • Publication, Book, Journal
  • Organizations
  • Other, Clubs
  • 10/18/1963
Description:
Small journal kept by Watson Robbins containing records of his traveling crooks including dates, locations, mileage, and new members. Last emtry 4/28/1964.