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| 7432 | Harper Lees's To Kill a Mockingbird |
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Description: Copy of Christopher Sergel play. Stamped "property of MDIHS, No 9, purchased 71" on inside front cover. | ||
| 9214 | Second Annual Report and Financing Assistance for Tourism Attractions |
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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 | |
| 11412 | Story of Mount Desert Island |
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Description: Copy of Samuel Eliot Morison's book The Story of Mount Desert Island. (Little, Brown and Co., 1960) | ||
| 11878 | Poems For Sutton Island |
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| 12431 | Scrapbook |
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Description: A scrapbook of recipes and household tips pasted in a book. Note in book indicates these are recipes of Corinthia Bassett Earl (Dad's Grandmother) d. 1897 in her 70's, buried in Derby, Conn. Had been a printer in Cleveland. | ||
| 12565 | A Museum of Early American Tools |
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| 12587 | Know Your Antiques |
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Description: How to recognize and evaluate any antique--large or small--like an expert. This is a general guide covering paper, glass, furniture, pottery and porcelain, clocks, and more. |
| 12608 | Friendly Village |
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| 12646 | A Study of Summer Visitors' Facilities in the Town of Mount Desert, Maine |
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Description: Prepared for the Summer-Year Round Resident Planning Committee of the Mount Desert Chamber of Commerce. Includes land use maps of Otter Creek, Seal Harbor, Bracy Cove, Northeast Harbor, Somesville, Pretty Marsh. The overall objective was to find ways and means to guide the coourse of change while maintaining the basic character of the community; find ways to achieve growth of the permament summer community. Includes study of hotel/inn and restaurant facilities to see if they are adequate. Among the findings: lengthening season, more older permanent summer residents; need for basic recreational facilities, expansion and modernization of Bar Harbor airport; light housekeeping rental cottages;better shopping and marine services on Sea St. in Northeast Harbor [show more] | ||
| 12861 | The Right People: The Social Establishment in America |
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Description: A witty account of Society and Real Society in America; Northeast Harbor, the Pot and Kettle Club, prep schools, debutante traditions, Junior League, are among the institutions mentioned. |
| 12873 | An Investigation of the Granite Quarry Industry in Hancock County, Maine |
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Description: Study of granite industry in Hancock Co., Maine, after Civil War to locate major quarry sites, ownership of quarries, types of granite products, characteristics of granite centers, and causes for the decline of the industry. |
| 12875 | The Indian Heritage of America. |
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Description: Addresses stereotypes and diversities, early man in America, and Native American tribes, as well as native people in Central and South America, and Canada. |
| 12899 | In Wildness is the Preservation of the World |
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Description: Porter's photographs set side-by-side with selected Thoreau writings... |
| 14164 | Robert Swain Peabody of Peabody and Stearns in Boston the Early Years (1870-1886) |
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Description: Doctoral thesis on Robert Swain Peaboy, design partner in prominent Boston architectural firm Photocopy only - probably a gift of author, Wheaton Arnold Holden |
| 14646 | Down Memory Lane |
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Description: Emily Phillips Reynolds memoir of her childhood and early days in 1900's. |
| 14655 | Native Birds of Mount Desert Island |
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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) |
| 16521 | Green Grows Bar Harbor: reflections from Kebo Valley |
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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. | |
| 16551 | History of the Maine Woods. |
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| 16558 | Edith Hamilton: an Intimate Portrait |
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Description: Biography of Edith Hamilton, who lived for awhile at Sea Wall. Inscribed Marion Holmes in front. | |
| 16947 | The American Builder's Companion |
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| 16981 | Jones Tracy, Tall Tale Teller from Mount Desert |
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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). | ||
| 16989 | Edith Hamilton; An Intimate Portrait |
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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. |
| 17099 | Historical Notes on Mount Desert Island |
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| 17107 | Forest Trees of Maine |
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| 17146 | ABC Book of Early Americana |
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