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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
12891On the Art of Teaching
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Schools
  • Mann, Horace
  • Applewood Books
  • 1989
Description:
A facsimile of the classic 184o book which described the qualifications for those who teach.
12890Early American School Books
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Schools
  • Chandler Press
  • 1988
Description:
Contains selected pages from schoolbooks from 1785 to 1880. Examples are from spelling and geography books, among others.
17117Early Schools
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Schools
  • Kalman, Bobbie
  • Crabtree Pub. Co.
  • 1982
17118Early Schools
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Schools
  • Kalman, Bobbie
  • Crabtree Pub. Co.
  • 1982
12893An Age of Barns
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Barns
  • Other, Buildings
  • Sloan, Eric
  • Funk & Wagnalls
  • 1976
17148The Cracker Barrel
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Stores & shops
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Funk and Wagnalls
  • 1967
Description:
Illustrations and anecdotes dedicated to the general store
12878The Interiors Handbook for Historic Buildings
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Interior design
  • Other, Preservation
  • Fisher, Charles E. III, Michael Auer, Anne Grimmer, eds.
  • Historic Preservation Education Foundation
  • 1988
12901The Roofing Handbook for Historic Buildings
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Roofs
  • Slaton, Deborah and Charles E. Fisher III
  • Historic Preservation Education Foundation and the National Park Service
  • 1999
Description:
Series of articles by various people in chapters about Guidelines and References, History and Technology, Planning and Specifications, and Roofing Materials
17110Early American Community Structures
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Buildings
  • Mullins, Lisa, ed.
  • The National Historical Society
  • 1987
12924A Building History of Northern New England
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, New England
  • Garvin, James L.
  • University Press of New England
  • 2001
Description:
Guide to understanding old buildings, written especially for home-owners in northern New England. Discusses evolution of building technology from log buildings through framed houses, evolution of style, and evolution of key features.
17142Our Vanishing Landscape
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Landscapes
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Wilfred Funk
  • 1955
Description:
Illustrations of disappearing structures and man-made landscaping
17143American Barns and Covered Bridges
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Barns
  • Other, Bridges
  • Other, Buildings
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Wilfred Funk
  • Inc., 1954
17144American Yesterday
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Tools & Implements
  • Sloane, Eric
  • Wilfred Funk
  • 1956 .
Description:
Occupations of early America
2414Savage Supply Catalogs
  • Document, Advertising, Sales Catalog
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
Description:
Variety of Company Supply Catalogs from Fred Savage’s business, paint, stucco, driwall, pluming, finish work etc.
2592Bicentennail Notes
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Buildings
  • 3/11/1976
Description:
History of The Old Stone Barn at the crossroads of the Crooked road and Norway Drive and surrounding area.
8873Man in some sort of uniform
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • 1930-1950
Description:
Man (may be Keith MacKenzie) wearing white shirt, pants, and cap. Standing in front of tall trees and two buildings, perhaps cabins.
9100Auto War
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
Description:
Horses hitched to buckboards along street. Men sit in carriages or stand next to them. To the left are grass squares and saplings. Across street three large buildings. Middle building holds R.F. Suminsby, smaller builing next door, sign read [----] Stevens. Stamped on back with LaRue Spiker, P O Box 625, Southwest Harbor, Maine 04679. "Auto War" in red crayon
9117Schooner Kate L. Pray
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Buildings
  • Other, Ships
  • People
  • Unknown
Description:
Two masted schooner at wharf in front of A.J. Whiting’s (later, 1887) Fernald’s Store (later Port-in-a-Storm Bookstore, then art gallery). Back of blacksmith shop visible on left. Small sailing dory tied to wharf. Anchor hangs from bow. Several men seated in the bow of schooner, one standing aft near main mast. Man driving wagon pulled by two white horses. Somes meadow in distance. Mark in lower left hand corner. Edges very worn. Stained and faded. Marked on back, “Schooner Kate L. Pray.” [show more]
9292Notice soliciting for building of Toll House with specifications
  • Document, Announcement
  • Other, Bridges
  • Other, Buildings
  • 8/14/1837
Description:
Notice soliciting for building of Toll House with specifications. Signed by John Black.
7353Eden Town House
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Other, Buildings
Description:
Color Photo of plaque memorializing the first Town House built in Eden. It was built in 1842 and razed in 1931. The memorial was erected in 1932. The back of the photograph is marked "This plaque is one of the few reminders that this area was once the center of Mt. Desert Island Business." -Connee Jellison
7387Harbor view.
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • Vessels, Ship
Description:
Looking back at city from harbor. Wide street runs through middle of photo from harborside. Two three-masted schooners in port to the right. Three church steeples rise in background above city. To the left sign above building reads, “Washburn [?] flour.” Harbor unidentified; no date.
7833People gathered at long tables
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • People
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
People gathered at long tables on the lawn outside a church. The lawn overlooks the harbor. Fish house and piers line the harbor. Houses are on the hill over the harbor. This is probably Frenchboro.
7834Looking over harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Looking over a harbor lined on each side with piers and fish houses. House on the hill overlooking the harbor. This is probably Frenchboro.
7835Looking over a harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Looking over a harbor lined on each side with piers and fish houses. House on the hill overlooking the harbor. This is probably Frenchboro.
7850Small pond or inlet
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Sheet Film Negative
  • Other, Buildings
  • LaRue Spiker
Description:
Small pond or inlet. Thee story house with a Mansard roof above the water. Samller buidling closer to the shore. A bridge over a stream to the right.