Description: 95-page booklet (including bibliography) about the parties, the voters, the preliminaries; delegate selection; national nominating conventions, and more.
Description: Report on a survey of the educational programs and facilities of the schools on Mount Desert Island taken in 1948, including trends in enrollment, school housing needs, finances, and transportation. The survey recommends the establishment of a consolidated, regional school for grades 7-12.
Description: Legal Black Binder:Copy of the Earliest Records of the Island of Mount Desert and Vital records : An index to the Early Records of the Town of Mount Desert
Description: Legal Black Binder:Copies of Mount Desert Town Records 1821-1841 Intentions and Marriages,1847-52; Town Meeting Records 1847-50;Records of Intentions and Marriages 1853-89; Misc. Ref to Pretty Marsh roads and Taxes to 1860s.
Description: War Survey: includes number of wells, beds, linens, cooking utensils, vehicles, firearms available in the area of Southwest Harbor, Manset and Seawall by May Salsbury, Survey Chairman Seawall, Manset P.O., Maine
Description: 1 page report, from the Coast and Geodetic Survey. About tidal bench marks in Southwest Harbor. Research for an article by LaRue Spiker. Previously accessioned as **2009, object Id 2001.2009
Description: As title indicates. Triangulation stations in Bass Harbor, Mount Desert and West Peak - pages numbers of these marked by LaRue Spiker. Preparation for an article. 23 pages. Previously accessioned as **2010, object Id 2001.2010
Description: A report prepared for the Mount Desert Island regional high school committee. Printed by the Bar Harbor Times. Folder 9 also contains numerous letters, memos and announcements about the decision process, 1948, for building a new island wide High School to replace regional schools.
Description: 76-page booklet: A Report Prepared for The Mount Desert Island Regional High School Committee by the Survey Staff, Mark R. Shibles, Director. The report recommended establishing "a single, six-year Regional Secondary School for the youth of the entire Island" (school consolidation). Also gave plans for use of existing school buildings affected by this new organization. Includes a center photographic spread of the existing buildings.
Description: Report prepared by Bill Skocpol regarding activities of the MDI Odd Fellows lodge during the middle of the 20th century. Report based on the Constance J. Robbins papers which he acquired at an auction in 1999. Report includes graphs of membership levels, photocopies of photographs, and summary narrative.
Description: Report recounting highlights of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society's 1996 year, listing coming events for the next year, and listing the membership.
Description: 1861 Petition for Town Meeting, 1864 Selectmen's Report, 1877 payment to John W. Somes from Town of Mt. Desert, Payment to J.C. Hill (highway surveyor) from Town of Mt. Desert, Town charges for 1904. Includes references to "breaking snow," and payment in shillings per hour
Description: Rodick House papers; Hamor estate papers including court case of property to Mrs. Hamor, sale of store and lot by Edwin G. Desisle; Letter from Fountain Rodick to Mrs. Griswold; Accounts/ledgers re payments from Hamor estate (1873); Account from R.H. Kitteredge store, East Eden/Bar Harbor (1875).
Description: Reports from government agencies and two clipped newspaper articles from unspecified newspapers. Items included: 1) 11th Annual Report, Fiscal - 1968 of the Maine Industrial Building Authority, 2) FAA Information Newsletter dated April 25, 1968, 3)MIRFAB (Maine Industrial and Recreational Finance Approval Board) 1967 Annual Report, 4) Newspaper clipping regarding financing sources for Maine economic development, and 5) Newspaper clipping regarding industrial loan guarantee for Vahlsing, Inc. Items likely collected in preparation for an article to be written by Spiker. Part of LaRue Spiker Collection Previously archived as object Id 012.FIC.058.4 and **1769 [show more]