Description: Spiker Bible; gift in 1955. Spiker family records on included pages between Old and New Testaments. Includes birth date of LaRue Spiker on July 8, 1912. Includes notes, church bulletin, cards Presentation page in front: Presented to Grace, By Fran, Dec. 1955.
Description: McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader (revised edition), 1879. Published by Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co, Cincinnati and New York. Donated to Sawtelle Collection, transferred to MDI Historical Society. Originally owned by a family in North Canton, Ohio.
Description: A series of 12 programs on six videotapes, created by the Old Sardine Village Museum, Lubec, Maine, 1995-1997. Videotapes are in VCR format. Twelve programs: Tape 1: Wolff & Reessing, 1875-1903 and The Seacoast, 1899-1920 Tape 2: Capen & Cover Dept., 1900-1920 and Diamond Pkgy Co., Early 1900's Tape 3: Wm. Underwood Shop, 19821-1921 and Can Company, 1890's-1920's Tape 4: Hole and Cap Can Shop, Stewart's Blueberries and Blacksmith Shop-Eastern Steamship Dock-Rier Barn Tape 5: Capain's Quarters, 1820's-1920's and The Columbian, est. 1890 Tape 6: winslow Packing Co, 1843-1899 and Carpenter Shop, 1850's-1920's, and Sheet Metla Shop [show more]
Description: A videotape, VCR-VHS format, titled Restore America Maine, Episode #118, Scripps Productions, E.W. Scripps Company, n.d. Film has not been reviewed prior to accessioning. Source unknown.
Description: A videotape, VCR-CHS format, titled "Maine's Golden School Days" 1890-1930, A Reminiscent Video. A project of the Phillips-Strickland House, jacket design by Cheri Walton, n.d.
Description: A DVD that contains interviews with 12 individuals who have knowledge of the Peapod, a small Maine built wooden skiff. The DVD also contains photographs, plans, slideshows, construction information, and records of many of the existing wooden skiffs.
Description: A film compilation about the fire of 1947 from the Collections of Northeast Historic Film. Included is: October Fury 1947, Maine's Forect Fire Disasters, A Look Back at the Infamous Fires 50 Years Later, a retrospective produced by the Maine Forest Service. There are other cuts and film included without attribution of sources. On DVD.
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: "In the Graded Literature Readers good literature has been presented as early as possible, and the classic tales and fables, to which constant allusion is made in literature and daily life, are largely used."
Kids Vids Educational Entertainment, MPI Home Video
Collection:
Audio Visual History Collection
Date:
1995
Description: A videotape, VCR-VHS format, title Milk & Cookies: A video snack for kids of all ages, 30 minutes, 1995 This video is a tour of a milk producing farm to see how raw milk is collected and processed. Also explores the cookie makinf process at Keebler Company. Audience is children, ages 3-12. This video was used with children during one of the MDIHS exhibits related to dairy farming.
Description: A videotape, VCR- VHS format, titled "Hard Work", produced by Jim Sharkey, Orono, ME, Folkfilms.com Interviews, historical photos, and video from present day factories details the rise of the female workforce in the State of Maine's mills and factories and explores the conditions that women had to endure both on and off the job circa 1888.