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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
17274The Journal of a Gentleman Farmer, 1829-1832.
  • Publication, Book
  • Businesses, Farming
  • Other, Connecticut
  • Other, History
  • Townshend, Doris B.
  • East Haven Historical Society
  • 1985.
17187Mount Desert: An Informal History
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Mount Desert
  • Hansen, Gunnar, ed.
  • Town of Mount Desert
  • Maine, 1989
17123At Home: The American Family 1750-1870
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Families
  • Other, History
  • Other, Home economics
  • Other, United States
  • Garrett, Elisabeth Donaghy
  • Harry N. Abrams
  • 1989
16628Lost Bar Harbor
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, History
  • Helfrich, G.W. and Gladys O’Neil
  • Downeast Books
  • 1982
14649Traditions and Records: Southwest Harbor, and Somesville -- Mount Desert Island, Maine.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Somesville
  • Other, Southwest Harbor
  • Thornton, Mrs. Seth
  • Acadia Publishing Co.
  • 1988
12788History of Barlett’s Island, Mount Desert Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bartlett’s Island
  • Other, History
  • Binnewies, Esther and Muriel Davisson
  • Seavey Printers
  • 1981
Description:
164-page history of Bartlett's Island; with an introduction by Peggy Rockefeller. Copy #2 was donated by Gail Reiber.
12596The Living Past: Being the Story of Somesville Mount Desert, Maine and Its Relationships with Other Areas of the Island
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Somesville
  • Somes-Sanderson, Virginia
  • Beech Hill Publishing Co.
  • 1982.
Description:
As the author says in the preamble, " This is the story...of the first permanent settlement on Mount Desert Island..." ?At one time Somesville had seven mills, five shipyards, four blacksmith shops, two stores, and ...serv[ed] the entire area and outlying islands."
2813MDI's Auto War: Summer vs. Permanent Residents, 1900-1915
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Automobiles
  • Other, History
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Diana Abrell writing for Bar Harbor Times
  • 9/6/1984
Description:
Article beginning on p.17 and continued on p.32 describing the disputes on Mt. Desert Island in the early 20th century regarding the use of automobiles on the Island. Addended to the article is a poem, reprinted from Bar Harbor Life, August 23, 1913, entitled "Automobiles, The Mount Desert Town Meeting. Only initials "H.W.S." [Herbert Weir Smyth] identify the author of the poem.