Description: Geologic history of Mt. Desert Island; includes insert "The Geology of Mount Desert," by George McLane Wood. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. XXXI, Pp. 121-186/Note by Geo. B. Dorr
Description: A videotape, in VHS format, titled Penobscot; The People and Their River, by Acadia Film Video, Gunnar Hansen and David Westphal, date unknown
Description: An account of his early life--two years in a printing office--eleven years at sea, in which he was twice shipwrecked, and experienced several narrow escapes from death. Also his Christian experience and labors in the Gospel ministry. Page 137 begins his account of time on Mt. Desert. Published in Portland [Maine] by advertising steam job printing office, Horace C. Little, printer.
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.
Description: Tells how to create historic gardens and landscapes that reflect specific periods, e.g., colonial, Victorian as well as how and where to research these gardens. Suggested plantings that are historically accurate are given as are guidelines for maintaining the restored landscape.
Description: How and why to explore an house's history using the setting, written records, oral and visual sources, and the home itself as resources. Also discusses the American dream of owning a home, construction techniques and materials, and more.
Description: Covers styles with minimal text and black and white photographs. Styles include: Spanish Colonial, Mission, Pueblo, Spanish Colonial Revival, New England Colonial, Southern Colonial. French Colonial, Dutch Colonial, Georgian, Federal, Roman Classicism, Colonial Revival, Greek Revival, Egyptian Revival, Gothic Revival, Victorian Gothic, Italian Villa, Italianate, Renaissance Revival, Second Renaissance Revival, Romanesque Revival, Victorian Romanesque, Richardsonian Romanesque, Octagon, Chateau, Second Empire Easter Stick, Western Stick, Eastlake, Shingle, Queen Anne, Sullivanesque, Beaux-Arts Clasicism, New-Classicism, Bungalow, Prairie, International, Art Deco, Art Moderne [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.