1947 Fire: Newspaper articles
Object ID:
008.073.33.a-k
Catalog:
Archives
Title:
1947 Fire: Newspaper articles
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Description:
Bangor Daily News, Oct. 24, 1947: "Thousands Flee as Raging Blaze Sweeps Bar Harbor."
Bangor Daily News, Oct. 25-26, 1947: "Ellsworth Scouts Aid in Disaster," "U.of M. Students Aid in Fighting Flames," " 40 Bangor Jaycees Fight Forest Fires," "Fires Ravage Maine Towns," "$10,000,000 Loss at Bar Harbor; Maine Still Fights many Fires," and photo. of Faith and Caroline Olsen, evacuees separated from relatives.
Photo, elderly evacuee Dorothy Hodgkins consoled by Grace Hodgkins, n.d.
Bangor Daily News, Oct. 24, 1947: "Trail of Ruin is Left by Forest."
Bangor Daily News, Oct. 25-26, 1947: Photo., Mrs. E.T. Johnson; JImmy Nolan and younger brother.
Bar Harbor Times, July 9, 1964: "Mount Desert Island's Worst Disaster."
"The Fire of '47," Supplement to the Bar Harbor Times, Oct. and Aug. 1987
Misc. notes and postcards to Ballard.
Bangor Daily News, Oct. 25-26, 1947: "Ellsworth Scouts Aid in Disaster," "U.of M. Students Aid in Fighting Flames," " 40 Bangor Jaycees Fight Forest Fires," "Fires Ravage Maine Towns," "$10,000,000 Loss at Bar Harbor; Maine Still Fights many Fires," and photo. of Faith and Caroline Olsen, evacuees separated from relatives.
Photo, elderly evacuee Dorothy Hodgkins consoled by Grace Hodgkins, n.d.
Bangor Daily News, Oct. 24, 1947: "Trail of Ruin is Left by Forest."
Bangor Daily News, Oct. 25-26, 1947: Photo., Mrs. E.T. Johnson; JImmy Nolan and younger brother.
Bar Harbor Times, July 9, 1964: "Mount Desert Island's Worst Disaster."
"The Fire of '47," Supplement to the Bar Harbor Times, Oct. and Aug. 1987
Misc. notes and postcards to Ballard.
Collection:
Robert Michael, Ballard 2008 Collection
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Citation
“1947 Fire: Newspaper articles,” Mount Desert Island Historical Society, accessed November 13, 2024, https://mdihs.digitalarchive.us/items/show/2339.Item 2705