Description: 21-page monograph presented by the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Story originally published from Rachel Field's collection Points East: Narratives of New England, 1933. Bruce Komusin of the Great Cranberry Island Historical Society brought the work to the attention of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Editor: Emily M. Beck
Description: Collection of 13 plays; titles are: A Case for Sherlock Holmes by Gladys Ruth Bridgham Caste by T.W. Robertson Cousin Faithful by Julie M. Lippmann A Scrap of Paper, Comic Drama in three acts by J. Palgrave Simpson His Heroine by Margaret Louise Holbrook The Snowball, a Farce-Comedy in three acts, by Sydney Grundy Betsy Baker by J. Maddison Morton The Trouble at Satterlee's by Louise Latham Wilson The White Silhouette and other acting monologues, by Evangeline M. Lent The Blundering Mr. Brown, a comedy in three acts, by Harold Hale If I Had A Thousand A Year, by J.M. Morton The Brixton Burglary, by Frederick W. Sidney Billy's Bungalow, by Eleanor Maud Crane A Kettle of Fish (adapted from the German), by Franz von Schonthan Parted by Patience, by Bessie Blair Smith [show more]
Description: Madame Bacler de Leval, a French woman, efforts to establish a settlement for French refugees in the present Tremont area in 1792, This pamphlet summarizes those efforts as includes her diary (and other writings) in French. There are also handwritten notes in French, and a postcard from the donor, which are in a small envelope.
Description: “The Kelly Duplex Grinding Mill, manufactured by Springfield Engine & Thresher Co., Globe Co., Springfield Ohio. 16 page pamphlet about corn grinder. c. 1880’s.
Description: 48 pps. Gives report of Selectmen on appropriations, receipts and expenditures, e.g., for sprinkling streets, disposing of garbage, payments to overseers of poor. Given to Jesup Library, January 2014
Description: Mount Desert Deer Past and Present, 1944. By Lawrie Holmes of the American Wildlife Institute. 36 pages, including “sources of information”. Previously archived as 016.FIC.001.24
Description: Mary Bond Collection of essays published by the Bar Harbor Times from 1976 to 1986. (Updated description 04/17/2012 by Annette). Mary Bond was the wife of James Bond - the ornithologist who was the namesake for Ian Fleming's character. The Bonds lived in Pretty Marsh on the estate which is now (2012) owned by Joan Fitzgerald.
Description: A Cream colored booklet: A report to the Plan Committee Bar Harbor Improvement Association from Architect, Charles W. Eliot, the 2nd. 1928. Includes color maps and black and white photographs
Description: The Cumulative Impact of Development on Mount Desert Island, Maine published by the League of Women Voters of Mount Desert Island (1988). Includes interviews with Harry Owen, George Lawson, Kay Meserve and Merrill E. Stanley, Jr.