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| 1471 | Oral History: John Kief on dairy faming |
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Description: Oral history interview of John Kief about his family's dairy farm. | ||||
| 1491 | Space-Age Defense: Pipe Dream or Protection? |
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Description: Voter, Vol. 35, #1, a 29-page booklet about Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, Federal Tax Policy, acid rain, and other topics. | ||
| 1492 | Growth: A Question of Balance, Voter, Vol. XXVII #4 |
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Description: 29-page booklet about effects of continued growth including discussion of poverty, unemployment, environment. | ||
| 1523 | Keeper's Log of Bear Island Lighthouse, 1877-1878 |
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Description: During his tenure as lightkeeper, his family consisted of his wife, Catherine (Kimball), 4 daughters, Sarah, age 8, Ida, age 7, Augusta, age 4, and Adelma, age 2. Gives accounts of oil, wicks, and chimneys expended daily; shows time of lighting and extinguishing and length of time lighted each night, for each month. | |||
| 1525 | The Beginner's American History |
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Description: U.S. history textbook published by Ginn and Company, c. 1915. Stamped "Property of Trenton School Department" inside front cover. | ||
| 1526 | Line, Shade, and Shadow: The Fabrication and Preservation of Architectural Drawings |
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| 1546 | A Souvenir of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island |
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Description: Many photographs of 19th century Bar Harbor "cottages" and views. Also includes advertisements and two pages of narrative. No publisher indicated. A reproduction of this book may be found at 008.029. | |||
| 1547 | The Mirror of Maine |
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Description: This is an annotated and illustrated bibliography of 100 books "that reveal the history of the state and the life of its people." | |
| 1549 | FromSchoolhouse to Schooling System... |
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Description: This book is the story of Maine public education in the 20th century; it traces the history from small community schoolhouses to a "seamless statewide system" with the attendant tensions that accompany this transition. | |
| 1550 | Sadie's Winter Dream |
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Description: Fishermen's Wives & Maine Sea Coast Mission Hooked Rugs, 1923-1938 | |
| 1551 | The Comprehensive Teachers' Bible |
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Description: Contains Old and New Testaments, helps to Bible study, a new concordance, elementary introductions to the Hebrew and Greek languages, and an indexed Bible Atlas. Inscribed W.H. Whitmore, Emma A. Whitmore Paper inserted contains recipe for mock apple pie written on receipt of W.H. Whitmore "dry and fancy goods" store. | |||
| 1552 | New Testament |
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Description: 2.5" X 3" leather-bound Inscribed EA Whitmore, Seal Harbor, Maine No date | ||||
| 1569 | The White House Cook Book |
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Description: " Cooking, toilet, and household recipes; menus, dinner-giving, table etiquette; care of the sick, health suggestions; facts worth knowing, etc. etc." "A comprehensive cyclopedia of information for the home" Full-page photographs of Frances Folsom Cleveland and Carrie Scott Harrison in front. Written in pencil on front page: Miss (?) Mary H. Whitmore Inserted with in book are a floral card that reads, "Love, Honour, Hope & JoyFill Every Year of Thine" and a small "affectionate greeting" from Joseph Whitmore. [show more] | |
| 1681 | Clippings about WWII |
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Description: Miscellaneous newspaper clippings, mostly from Ohio newspapers and Time magazine, gathered by Virginia Somes Sanderson and put in her scrapbook (see 014.FIC.007.1). They were removed from the scrapbook because they were loose; most are undated. Folder also includes three ration books. Rehoused to Box 76 from loose FIC stack due to connection with Sanderson. 9/2020. | |||
| 2289 | Old Farmer's Almanac |
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Description: 1856,1857,1858,1860,1861,1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1871,1872,1874,1875,1877,1878,1879,1880,1882, 1913,1914 All items "adopted by Caroline Pryor" (except 1913 and 1914) per 1999 catalog records which have been replaced by this one record. The 1913 and 1914 issues were donated by Stephen Ashley (AB). | ||||
| 2308 | History of Mt. Desert |
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Description: History of Mount Desert recounted with important dates and descriptions of the events. Includes additional sections "Manners & Customs", "Population", and "The Church". In pencil is written "From Somesville + Southwest Harbor", some additional notes in pencil are made in the margins. Undated. | ||||
| 2314 | A Bright Boy |
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Description: Story about boy counting chickens and fooling Father. No date or author given. | ||||
| 2346 | Gilman High School Yearbook, 1948 |
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Description: Yearbook for the Gilman High School (Northeast Harbor) for 1948. | ||||
| 2412 | Corporate book 1836-1916 |
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Description: Leather bound. Marble end papers. Notice of meeting in 1899 signed by E. Hamor | |||
| 2413 | Mount Desert Bridge Corporation: Corporation Book 1836-1916 |
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Description: Coporation Book: 1836-1916. Leatherbound. Marble end papers. Notice of meeting signed by: E Hamor. | ||||
| 2420 | David Rockefeller, Interview, September 9, 2010 |
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Description: A videorecording, on DVD format, disc, of an excerpt from an interview with David Rockefeller by Kathy Miller, Sept. 9, 2010 This is an excerpt from the full interview, 011.003.001. This excerpt was played at the Annual Meeting, August, 2011 Interview took place at Seal Harbor home, Ringing Point, of David Rockefeller | |||
| 2429 | MDI historical society receives grant to restore schoolhouse, school house gets $125,000 challenge, Restoration to begin |
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Description: Three newspaper stories photocopied onto the same page. 1. Bangor Daily News, "MDI historical society receives grant to restore schoolhouse", May 28, 1999. 2. Bar Harbor Times, "School house gets $125,000 challenge", undated. 3. Bar Harbor Times, "Restoration to begin", May 27, 1999. | |||
| 2430 | Membership Application |
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Description: Application to become a member of the MDI Historical Society for 1991-92. On the back is copied a newspaper clipping titled "Federal Work at Somesville", and some general information for upcoming Historical Society events. | |||
| 2523 | The Bloomfield Smith House |
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Description: Document explaining the history of the Bloomfield Smith House, written by Richard Allen. Includes an image of the house. | ||
| 2532 | Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, volume IX 2008 |
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Description: Chebacco, volume IX 2008 Investing in Acadia: The Invisible Hand of John Stewart Kennedy by William J. Baker Centre? Center? What and When Was That? by Raymond E. Robbins, Jr. Fraternal Organizations on Mount Desert Island by William J. Skocpol Northeast Harbor Delivered: Provisioning the Carriage Trade by Meredith Hutchins Island Poems, Prose & Drawings by Candice Stover, Betsy Alexander, Les Menard, Edward W. Evans Local Color: A Winter Industries Family: the Smallidges of Northeast Harbor by Charlotte Singleton Memories of the Fire of '47 by Robert Patterson, Sr.,, Jack Russell [show more] |
