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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
1524Fabulous Radio NBD
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Fabbri, Alessandro, Lt.
  • Other, Otter Cliffs
  • Wentworth,Brandon
  • Beech Hill Publishing Co.
  • 1984
Description:
The story of "how and why Lieutenant Fabbri conceived and developed" the Otter Cliffs Naval Radio Station in 1917, commemorated in the Fabbri Memorial on Ocean Drive. NOTE: PDF available
1532Sieur de Monts National Monument and its Historical Associations
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Gardens
  • Other, Sieur de Monts National Monument
  • Places, Landscape
  • Dept. of the Interior
  • Wild Gardens of Acadia
  • 1917
Description:
George Buckham Dorr is given at the "custodian". The essay includes black and white photographs and describes Sieru de Monts National Monument, which is not "a purchase by the government" but a "gift from citizens." Photocopy
2785Mount Desert Island's Granite Heritage
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Brides
  • Other, Carriage roads
  • Other, Gatehouses
  • Victor Layton Writing for the Bar Harbor Times
  • 7/15/1982
Description:
Three page article describing the history of the construction of the carriage roads, bridges and gatehouses of Acadia National Park on Mt. Desert Island.
2815Wetlands and Marshes
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Marshes
  • Bar Harbor Times
  • 9/7/1967
Description:
Newspaper photograph illustrating a marsh which is preserved in Acadia National Park. Marsh is near Echo Lake Sand Beach. Previously archived as object id 012.FIC.029.8
2862New Signs in Acadia National Park
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • 1959
Description:
LaRue Spiker article on new signage in the park
2911Articles and copies of articles related to Pretty Marsh
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Pretty Marsh
  • Other, Schooner Head
  • Other, Ship Harbor
Description:
Article about Mrs. Alice Gray, Mrs. Linda Foote, Allen Smith. "Pretty Marsh Was Once Populous Farming and Fishing Community," Bar Harbor Times, May 9, 1963. (3 copies) "Pretty Marsh is a few miles and a world away from the rest of MDI," Community Observer, Sept. 4, 1974 "Under Uncle Dick Hill, " Bar Harbor Times, July 12, 1979 "Acadia: Land and Sea Vie in Eternal Struggle," Philadelphia Inquirer, May 11, 1965 (2 copies) Christening of "Acadian" by Lisa MacQuinn, Bar Harbor Times, April 16, 1970 Articles from Bar Harbor Times, April 9, 1970 Letter to editor, Bar Harbor Times, from Helen Cosgrove-Carignan, Sept. 23, 1976 "Legend of Schooner Head," Bar Harbor Times, Aug. 27, 1981 "Wreck of the Grand Design," Bar Harbor Times, April 16, 1987 Obituary, David Eliot McGiffert, Bar Harbor Times, Oct. 20, 2005 [show more]
3074Acadia National Park
  • Publication, Guidebook
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Dept. of Interior
  • 1934
Description:
Dept of Interior General information booklet 1934, regarding Acadia National Park, Maine .. Open all year June 15 to October 15.
3522Request for bids of timber by ANP
  • Document, Request
  • Events, Fire
  • Object, Lumber, Timber
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Dec 18, 1947
Description:
Call for bids on salvage of timber within Acadia National Park. Appears unsuccessful.
3523ANP account of weather conditions during Fire of 1947
  • Document, Report, Technical Report
  • Events, Fire
  • Object, Forestry
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Bangor Theological Seminary
  • Other, Fire engines & equipment
  • Other, National Park Service
  • Other, University of Maine
  • Other, Walkie-talkies
  • 1947?
Description:
Account of conditions
3843Events 2010
  • Document, Document File
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Cottages
  • Other, Oral history
  • Other, Photographs
  • Other, Schoodic
  • Other, Swans Island
  • Other, Swimming
  • 2010
Description:
Oral History Workshop, Jan. 28, 2010 Lenny's Legacy (Lenny DeMuro), MDI's Winning Swimmers, Jue 6, 2010 Memorials of Acadia National Park, Donald Lenahan, June 13, 2010 Photo Detectives: Researching Old Photographs, Meredith Hutchins & Charlotte Morrill, July 18, 2010 Peter Blanchard, author of We Were and Island (Kellams), August 10, 2010 Tour of Fred Savage Cottages (High Seas & Callendar House), Aug. 20, 2010 Swan't Island Trip, Aug. 21 (and another date), 2010 Soderholtz / Schoodic Trip (and stops along way), Aug. 28, 2010 Annual Meeting, August 24, 2010 [show more]
7248George Dorr in seashore cave, c. 1940
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Environmental policy
  • unknown
  • 1940c.
Description:
George Dorr seated inside seashore cave, c. 1940. Overhanging granite ledge, spume from waves visible in center.
8978Bubbles Pond with horse and carriages
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Bubbles
  • Other, Carriages & coaches
  • Other, Lakes & ponds
  • Unknown
  • c. 1890
Description:
Framed photo of Bubbles Pond, c. 1890. Carriage and horses with 2 or 3 passengers. Electric wires and poles visible. Margaret Spear (donor) had added note: "W. J. Walton, v. 92
12889Native Birds of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Long, Ralph H.
  • Beech Hill Pub. Co.
  • 1987
Description:
Almost 150 native species of birds reside on Mount Desert and surrounding Islands; this book is a guide to those birds here from June to August of the year. It indicates good places to view these birds
13002Inventing Acadia: Artists and Tourists at Mount Desert
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Belanger, Pamela J.
  • Farnsworth Art Museum
  • 1999
Description:
Landscape paintersThomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, and others discovered Mt. Desert Island and inspired tourists to visit. This book examines how images and works of art inspired the artists and tourists, alike.
13003Discovering Old Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park: An Unconventional History and Guide.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, History
  • Hill, Ruth Ann
  • Downeast Books
  • 1996.
Description:
Discovering Old Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park... Autographed by author.
13004Acadia Revealed: Mount Desert Island & Acadia National Park
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Kaiser, Jay
  • Papyrus Travel Guides
  • 2000
13090Mr. Rockefeller’s Roads: The Untold Story of Acadia’s Carriage Roads &Their Creator
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Carriage roads
  • Roberts, Ann Rockefeller
  • Down East Books
  • 1990
13422The Waterfront of Otter Creek: A Community History
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Oral history
  • Other, Otter Creek
  • Deur, Douglas
  • Northeast Region Ethnography Program, NPS
  • 2012
Description:
History of the community of Otter Creek, Maine, and its historical connections with the waterfront in Acadia National Park. Early families settled there and earned a living fishing and lobstering. Book recounts changes to relationship between community and waterfront, especially following the Depression; Otter Creek was only town on Mount Desert Island to be fully encircled by new Acadia National Park, thus losing access to the waterfront.
13963Property Map-Town of Mount Desert
  • Map
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Bartlett's Landing
  • Other, Mount Desert
  • Other, Pretty Marsh
  • Other, Topographic maps
  • James W. Sewall Co.
  • 1958-1964
Description:
008.103.3a - Map of Pretty Marsh area showing owners of plots (1 of 3 copies) 008.103.3b - Aerial photograph of Pretty Marsh, Bartlett's Landing area. 008.103.3c - Plan (April 1958) showing property of John D. Rockefeller Jr. et. als. 008.103.3d - Topographic map, 1:24,000, Acadia National Park & Vicinity (1956) 008.103.3e - Mount Desert Zoning map, 1964 008.103.3f - Mount Desert Zoning map, 1964 008.103.3g - Map of Pretty Marsh area showing owners of plots (1 of three copies) 008.103.3h - Map of Pretty Marsh area showing owners of plots (1 of three copies) [show more]
14028Map of Acadia National Park
  • Map
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Maps
  • ca. 1965
Description:
Map by Park Service, undated, blue and white. Fred Seaton listed as Secretary of the Dept. of Interior
14029Map of Acadia National Park, 1985
  • Map
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Maps
Description:
Boundary Map of Acadia National Park, dated Nov 1985 Has identifications at specific points such 18B-AT, 21AT Very large, black and white
14037Map of Baker Island
  • Map
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Baker's Island
  • Other, Coast Guard
  • Other, Lighthouses
  • Other, Maps
  • 1996
Description:
Photocopy of Baker Island map of ownership, ownership of houses, USCG, Acadia National Park, cemetary (sic)
16395Hike On: Poems from Mount Desert Island, Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Poetry
  • Bennett, Thomas Peter
  • Goose River Press
  • 2008
Description:
Collection of poems about MDI and Acadia National Park. Inscribed, "For Tim Garrity as you HIKE ON in your fine work."
16516Bygone Bar Harbor: A Postcard Tour of Mount Desert Island & Acadia National Park
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Brechlin, Earl
  • Down East Books
  • 2002
Description:
Postcard tour of Mount Desert Island & Acadia National Park
16521Green Grows Bar Harbor: reflections from Kebo Valley
  • Publication, Book
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Kebo
  • Recreation, Sports, Golf
  • Collier, Sargent F.
  • 1964
Description:
History of Bar Harbor, with photographs by Sargent Collier. Includes chapters on Acadia National Park, social and club life, island laboratories, Bar Harbor-Yarmouth ferry, Fire of 1947, Kebo Valley Golf Club, Bar Harbor Club, Pot and Kettle Club, the Building of Arts, Great Automobile War. Mentions performances of the Boston Symphony at the Building of Arts.